Over the weekend, Meta took the opportunity to launch Llama 4, a new series of AI models trained on a large amount of text, images and videos. According to Meta, Llama 4 is better than its competitors GPT-4o and Gemini 2.0 in a number of areas, including programming, reasoning and language translation. The two variants…
As generative AI continues to dominate technology news, the hype around AI PCs is growing. It’s easy to see the appeal of personal computers powerful enough to handle genAI processing tasks. Offered by all the major PC vendors, AI PCs include hardware and software designed to accelerate AI workloads across the central processing unit (CPU),…
Intel is reportedly in advanced discussions with TSMC to form a joint venture that could potentially reshape the future of the x86 platform and the global semiconductor landscape. Under a proposed deal, TSMC would take a 20% stake in a new entity operating Intel’s chipmaking facilities, in exchange for training Intel personnel in its industry-leading…
The AI market could grow to as much as $4.8 trillion by 2033, according to a new report from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. At the same time, the money is expected to be concentrated among a few players and could increase inequality between countries, CNBC reports. “The benefits of AI-driven automation…
It might be time for Apple-as-a-service as the company looks to plot a cunning course through the post-globalist freeze — and offering its products as a service could help it do just that. Apple had been expected to introduce just such a service. In fact, Mark Gurman recently said those plans were quite advanced, but the company shelved the idea, presumably…
Enterprise IT leaders are facing a double-whammy of uncertainties complicating their data center building decisions: The ever-changing realities of genAI strategies, and the back-and-forth nature of the current tariff wars pushed by the United States. “This is obviously a fluid situation. The stated goal of the [US] administration is to bring more development into the…
When Google unveiled a new neural network design in 2017 called the Transformer architecture, it probably had no idea this would threaten Google Search’s dominance within seven years. When OpenAI applied Google’s Transformer architecture to generative language models, the GPT was born. (GPT stands for “Generative Pre-trained Transformer.”) OpenAI then took the GPT concept and…
US President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order this week creating the US Investment Accelerator office to oversee the CHIPS Act, a Biden-era program to re-shore semiconductor production. According to a White House statement, the new entity’s mission will be to speed up corporate investments domestically by reducing government regulations and coordinating with federal…
Mozilla has decided to launch a challenger to Gmail called Thundermail. The upstart is a web-based email service based on the open-source project Stalwart, according to technology site Thurrott. The plan is to eventually add support for calendar and contacts to Thundermail, but when that would happen remains to be seen. Alongside the new email…
Windows 11 does a lot under the hood to speed up a PC’s performance. The same PC will generally run faster on Windows 11 than Windows 10. But no matter how zippy your Windows 11 may be, it can run faster. And keep in mind that PCs tend to slow down over time, and you…