Meta Platforms Q3 24 – Boondoggle? Meta reported good results but the continued heavy investments into AI and The Metaverse from which returns are hard to quantify, made the market...
Meta pushes harder for independence. Meta’s difficult experience with Android and iOS has left it so determined to be self-reliant that in addition to AI, it is now having a...
Qualcomm slays the 64-bit ghost. Qualcomm has slain the ghost of 64-bit computing by returning to custom CPUs in smartphones with a big leap in performance that will have competitors...
A potential benefit of hardship. China’s lack of cutting-edge silicon and limited amounts of cash to spend on compute is forcing it to innovate in ways that may allow it...
AI is the icing on the cake for nuclear and geothermal. The huge build-out of data centres to train and run AI algorithms is raising concerns about where the electricity...
Still no sign of reasoning. Apple has stuck the knife into the idea that large language models (LLMs) can reason with a research paper demonstrating LLMs making the sorts of...
Great visuals, no content. When the highlight of the show is wondering if it was a Cybercab malfunction that caused Mr Musk to start the show nearly an hour late,...
OpenAI wants to have its cake and eat it. What was going to become a for-profit entity subject to all the forces that hone companies into efficient cash printing...
Things might look very different in 3-4 years. However the legal games play out, Google is not going to be broken up any time soon and with market share loss...
Apple & Amazon – Mixed Bag
Apple FQ4 24 – Intelligence upgrades. Apple reported good results as the promise of Apple Intelligence has generated a mini-upgrade cycle, but it was not nearly enough to return the...