UK’s £45bn AI savings claim torn to shreds in parliament
MPs hear the maths relies on automation fairy dust
The British government’s £45 billion (€52.7 billion) AI “savings” pitch ran into a buzzsaw on 15 October 2025 as witnesses told MPs the numbers look fanciful without real cuts.
Blackrock’s splashes $20 billion on data centre outfit
Larry Fink’s latest bet shows AI mania still has plenty of cash to burn
Investment outfit BlackRock is throwing serious money at the plumbing behind artificial intelligence.
Intel unveils Crescent Island AI GPU
Ditches HBM for LPDDR5X in cost-cutter data centre gamble
Troubled Chipzilla has wheeled out a new AI inference GPU for data centres, codenamed Crescent Island, in a bid to claw back some relevance in a market where it has experienced an abattoir of hope.
NVIDIA Blackwell-based 1 PFLOP DGX Spark arrives to developers
Elon gets a special delivery from Jensen Huang
NVIDIA has announced that it will start shipping its NVIDIA DGX Spark, a 1 PFLOP Blackwell-based world's smallest AI supercomputer. NVIDIA's CEO, Jensen Huang, made a special delivery to Elon Musk at SpaceX.
Intel spins out RealSense in $50 million AI push
Teams up with Nvidia to power next-gen robots
Troubled Chipzilla has cut loose its RealSense division, the long-suffering pioneer in AI-driven computer vision, which has spun out as an independent company with a $50 million Series A boost and a shiny new partnership with Nvidia.