2025

Migrating AI from Nvidia to Huawei: Opportunities and trade-offs

When contemplating the shift, several business advantages may drive a final decision. Relying on one major vendor (namely, Nvidia) can incur risks: pricing leverage, export controls, supply shortages, or a single point of failure in innovation. Adopting or migrating to Huawei has the potential to provide negotiation leverage, avoid vendor lock-in, and offer access to alternate supply chains. That’s...

Counterintuitive’s new chip aims escape the AI ‘twin trap’

AI startup company, Counterintuitive, has set out to build “reasoning-native computing,” enabling machines to understand rather than simply mimic. Such a breakthrough has the potential to shift AI from pattern recognition to genuine comprehension, paving the way for systems that can think and make decisions – in other words, to be more “human-like.”Counterintuitive Chairman, Gerard Rego, spoke of...

OpenAI unveils open-weight AI safety models for developers

OpenAI is putting more safety controls directly into the hands of AI developers with a new research preview of “safeguard” models. The new ‘gpt-oss-safeguard’ family of open-weight models is aimed squarely at customising content classification. The new offering will include two models, gpt-oss-safeguard-120b and a smaller gpt-oss-safeguard-20b. Both are fine-tuned versions of the existing...

Open-source AI video from Lightricks offers 4K, sound, and faster rendering

Lightricks is upping the ante for rapid video creation and iteration with its latest artificial intelligence model. The company claims its newly released LTX-2 foundation model can generate new content faster than playback speed, plus it raises the bar in resolution and quality.The open-source LTX-2 can generate a stylised, high-definition, six-second video in just five seconds without no compromise in...

Top 5 AI compute marketplaces reshaping the landscape in 2026

With AI workloads becoming more computationally demanding, organisations across the globe are fast realising that traditional centralised providers aren’t always the answer to their burgeoning needs.And while compute giants (like AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure) continue to capture the limelight when it comes to AI processing, a quieter revolution has been brewing. Enter the decentralised compute...

RavenDB launches database-native AI agent creator to simplify enterprise AI integration

Open-source document database platform RavenDB has launched what it calls “the first fully integrated database-native AI Agent Creator,” a tool that makes it easier for enterprises to build and deploy AI agents.The platform tackles a common problem in enterprise AI – the difficulty of connecting models to a company’s own data systems and workflows securely and cost-effectively.Making AI practical,...

Why AMD’s work with the DOE matters for enterprise AI strategy

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and AMD are collaborating on two new AI supercomputers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) as part of a larger AI strategy to advance research in science, energy, and national security — and strengthen the nation’s position in high-performance computing.The two machines represent about $1 billion in public and private investment. Once complete, they will form...

The engineer’s guide to automating DAST tools

In modern software development, speed and security must go hand in hand. Teams are shipping code faster than ever, but such a rapid pace can introduce security vulnerabilities if not managed correctly. Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) is an important practice for finding security flaws in running applications. However, manual DAST scans can be slow and cumbersome, creating bottlenecks that...

OpenAI offers free ChatGPT Go in India: Marketing strategy analysis

OpenAI just made its biggest bet on India yet. Starting November 4, the company will hand out free year-long access to ChatGPT Go — a move that puts every marketing executive on notice about how aggressively AI companies are fighting for the world’s fastest-growing digital market.OpenAI will offer its ChatGPT Go plan to users in India who sign up during a limited promotional period starting November 4....

OpenAI restructures, enters ‘next chapter’ of Microsoft partnership

OpenAI has completed a major reorganisation and, in the same breath, signed a new definitive partnership agreement with Microsoft.Starting with OpenAI’s reorganisation, the aim is to solidify the nonprofit’s control over the for-profit business and establish the newly named OpenAI Foundation as a global philanthropic powerhouse, holding equity in the commercial arm valued at approximately $130...