At Saudi Arabia’s Leap 2025 event in February, the kingdom announced huge investment in artificial intelligence (AI), while the conference element of the show majored heavily in key questions about AI. These ranged from the next steps, such as getting business value from enterprise AI, to challenges in developing agentic AI, as well as the…
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Nvidia’s making an effort to stop scalpers buying RTX 5090 and 5080 GPUsThe ‘Verified Priority Access’ program is returning, albeit only in the USBuyers must have created an Nvidia account on or before January 30, 2025, to be offered a purchase opportunityThe RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 launch has been a rather sorry episode for…
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The UK and US governments refused to sign a joint international declaration on inclusive and sustainable artificial intelligence (AI) as the AI Action Summit drew to a close. A total of 61 countries – including France, China, India, Japan, Australia and Canada – have signed a Statement on Inclusive and Sustainable Artificial Intelligence for People…
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If you thought Windows’ humble, no-frills text editor would remain untouched by Microsoft’s never-ending quest to monetize things, think again. The company dropped AI features for Notepad a few months back, and now it’s prompting users to pay for a Microsoft 365 subscription to use AI features like Rewrite.For over four decades, Notepad has been…
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Market analysis from Forrester has forecast that organisations in Europe are set to increase IT spending by 5% during 2025. According to the analyst’s Global tech forecast 2024-2029, spending will reach $4.9tn in 2025, with accelerated investment in artificial intelligence (AI), cyber security and cloud infrastructure. Generative AI (GenAI), cyber security and cloud services are…
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Two major artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives have been launched at the AI Action Summit in Paris, focused on promoting sustainable and “public-interest” applications of the technology. The first is Current AI, a public interest foundation launched by French president Emmanuel Macron that seeks to steer the development of the technology in more socially beneficial directions.…
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Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D are purportedly arriving on March 12Reviews are apparently going to be published the day beforeWe’re still waiting for a key detail here, and that’s the asking prices of these high-end X3D chipsAMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D processors are rumored to be hitting the shelves on March 12.VideoCardz claims that…
Nvidia’s RTX 5050 GPU has been spotted in gaming laptops alongside the RTX 5060Incoming HP Victus 15 notebooks will feature these Blackwell GPUsThe RTX 5050 is likely to be a laptop-only graphics card, as with the previous Lovelace generationAway from the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080, and the continued stock woes around these GPUs, we’ve…
Palisade Research recently detailed a ChatGPT experiment in which a reasoning model was told to play chess against a more powerful opponent and win. Rather than attempt to beat the stronger opponent, ChatGPT o1 tried to hack the system. This forced the opponent to concede the game, and the AI achieved its goal.Fast-forward to mid-February…
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Nvidia has supposedly run into performance issues with the chips for its RTX 5070 and 5060This has meant these GPUs have been theoretically delayed by a monthAs a result, initial stock levels of the RTX 5070 may be thin on the groundWe’re hearing more rumors about Nvidia’s RTX 5070 and 5060 GPUs being delayed and…
