Apple can't do AI inhouse
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Only a $40bn Perplexity buyout will save Jobs' Mob

Analysts from Wedbush have delivered a damning verdict on the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s artificial intelligence ambitions, claiming the company is incapable of building AI internally and should just cough up $40 billion to buy someone else’s brainpower.

AMD's Ryzen AI MAX+ brings 128B LLMs home
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Strix Halo platform lets PCs muscle into AI territory

AMD has flung open the doors to local large language model mayhem by enabling support for up to 128 billion parameters on consumer machines.

AMD jacks up MI350 AI chip price by 70 per cent
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Reckons it can still slug it out with Nvidia's Blackwell

AMD has decided it no longer wants to be the budget option in AI hardware and is slapping a 70 per cent price hike on its high-end Instinct MI350 AI accelerator.

AI chips face energy crisis as startups take on Nvidia
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Cloudflare, Groq and Positron chase greener inference alternatives

Chip boffins are scrambling to cut the soaring energy costs of artificial intelligence, with a new generation of startups targeting Nvidia’s grip on the market by building faster, leaner, and more efficient inference silicon.

Italian AI cult leader jailed after victim ditches chemo
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Quantum physics, bogus cures, and "miraculous" AI Marie

A woman leading a crackpot AI health cult has been banged up in Rome for killing someone after convincing them to stop cancer treatment based on the advice of a fake AI.