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Home consoles face extinction as cloud and AI boom, BI research says

Bloomberg Intelligence forecasts that streamed games will become a $38B market by 2035 and that the dedicated console will stop being a mass-market product. The case depends on surplus GPU capacity pushing compute prices down late this decade, which has not happened yet. Streamed games will be a $38B market by 2035, and the console […]

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Nvidia commits $250M of compute to UK AI safety research

Nvidia has committed $250M over five years to UK agentic safety and security research, in the form of compute access rather than cash. Provider selection and commercial terms have still to be agreed. Nvidia has committed $250M to British AI safety research over the next five years. The commitment is compute access, not cash, and […]

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Anthropic asks the full appeals court to rehear its Pentagon case

Anthropic has asked the full federal appeals court in Washington to revisit a 2-1 ruling upholding the Pentagon’s designation of it as a supply-chain risk. It argues the designation was retaliation for its speech about AI safety. Anthropic has asked the full federal appeals court in Washington to rehear its challenge to a Pentagon designation […]

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An OpenAI engineer is charged over a listening device in the boardroom

An OpenAI engineer has been arrested over a listening device found behind a television in an executive conference room, and is charged with endeavouring to intercept oral communications. OpenAI says no model weights, source code or customer data were taken. An OpenAI engineer has been arrested over a listening device found at the company’s San […]

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Google will let anyone publish an app to the Play Store, for free

Google will let anyone over 18 with a Google account publish privately listed Android apps built in its AI Studio, with no paid developer account. Apple spent this year tightening its own store against the same kind of software. Google will let anyone over 18 with a Google account publish an Android app to the […]

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Apple launches $299 HomeView hub alongside new smart home range

Apple has launched HomeView, a $299 smart display built around Siri AI, with shipping from 13 November in eight markets. The European Union is not one of them, because Siri AI is still blocked on iOS there. Apple has launched HomeView, a $299 smart display built around the new Siri, with pre-orders open and shipping […]

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Data centre firms say the AI bottleneck is now power and labour

Executives from NTT Data, Brookfield and Infosys say electricity and skilled labour, not chips, now limit how fast AI data centres get built. In Europe the binding constraint is worse, with grid connections in congested markets running to ten years. The thing slowing the AI buildout is no longer the chips. Executives running some of […]

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Palantir CTO says the Pentagon has already replaced Anthropic’s AI

The Pentagon has already replaced Anthropic’s AI models, with no operational impact, Palantir’s chief technology officer, Shyam Sankar, said on CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday. “It’s already been replaced,” Sankar said. The Pentagon stopped using Anthropic’s products after a dispute over its safeguards for military AI. It labelled the company a supply chain risk. […]

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Batam residents protest as data centres grow and their taps run dry

Hundreds of people in Batam, an Indonesian island near Singapore, have protested outside a data centre park. They say their homes have had no running water for months while the facilities have kept their servers cool, the BBC reported. The protest took place on October 5 at the gate of Nongsa Digital Park, according to […]

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IMF warns $1.4tn in circular AI deals could deepen a market correction

A correction in AI-related stocks and debt could set off market turmoil, the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday. It named the AI risk as one of three that could sharply tighten financial conditions. The other two are a sharp rise in government bond yields and cyber threats. The warning came in the IMF’s Global […]

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