Smaller customers face brutal price hikes

Broadcom has killed off VMware vSphere Foundation in parts of EMEA, dealing another sharp blow to smaller customers already squeezed by rising costs.

Altman hopes a souped-up model will stop Google and Anthropic stealing its lunch

OpenAI rolled out GPT-5.2 and declared it its sharpest tool yet for professional knowledge work as the outfit scrambles to keep punters from wandering off to flashier rivals.

AI turf war slides into court with accusations of poaching and data theft

Palantir has widened its legal assault on a rival AI outfit, accusing former staff of looting its talent, customers and confidential material.

Analysts moan about the margins as shares wobble

Broadcom delivered another slab of AI-fuelled growth and still managed to spook the market in after-hours trading.

Pocket-sized box promises to run 120 billion parameter models

Tiiny AI reckons it has cracked the code for shoving an AI supercomputer into a device so small it could vanish into your jacket lining.

Microsoft's default Calibri is too "woke"

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio tightened his grip on the culture war by ordering diplomats to ditch Calibri typefaces for Times New Roman, apparently unaware that the venerable serif has spent decades carrying some of the most “woke” books ever printed.

Prime minister shrugs off the mess as kids flaunt their workarounds

Australia’s under-16 social media ban had barely landed before the country’s feeds filled with teenagers loudly proving they could dodge it, prompting Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to defend the scheme as fair dinkum.

Lip-Bu Tan’s investment web puts Troubled Chipzilla in an awkward spotlight

Troubled Chipzilla’s chief Lip-Bu Tan is under fire as revelations pile up about deals that seem to bulk up his personal fortune. At the same time, he presides over a company that Washington wants to drag back to industrial prominence.

GPU giant moves to stop its kit wandering into banned markets

Nvidia has cooked up location-verification software that can reveal which country its chips are running in as it scrambles to stop its AI hardware from being smuggled into places where Washington has slapped export bans.

Software giant scrambles to stay visible in the chatbot stampede

Adobe is stuffing three of its big-name apps into ChatGPT as it hustles to keep pace with a swelling mob of firms hitching themselves to the chatbot.