Niall Kitson

Due to a severe shortage of high-bandwidth memory (HBM), leading Chinese producers of artificial intelligence chips are significantly increasing the prices of their processors. Reuters reports that companies such as Cambricon and Huawei Technologies have raised prices for both current and future hardware, as the rising costs of sourcing essential memory components undermine efforts to develop domestic alternatives to Nvidia's technology.

Managed IT and security services provider DNA IT Solutions has appointed Michael Rooney as chief technology officer. Rooney will set the company’s technology vision and direction, drawing on a career-long instinct for spotting where technology is heading before the market catches on. He will also play a significant role in shaping DNA IT’s scaling and […]

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Many of us will have read variants of that sentence in the last few days in a wide range of news reports following the resignation of Jacob Coxon, a researcher at Anthropic. Coxon left Anthropic accusing the company and OpenAI, a previous employer, of acting irresponsibly and “gambling with our lives” by racing straight to self-improving superintelligence.

One story dominating tech opinion this week, the new Apple folding phone they call ‘Duo'. Hear why we simultaneously love it, and hate it.

At the Internationale Funkausstellung in Berlin, AMD introduced the Threadripper Halo Station, a device it describes as a “personal supercomputer”, built for an AI-focused computing era. This high-end workstation, presented by senior vice president Jack Huynh (pictured), is designed to deliver data centre capabilities within the footprint of a desktop, in order to meet the […]

According to The New York Times , the US Department of Justice is investigating a licence agreement between Nvidia and AI start-up Groq. Officials are examining whether the terms of the partnership were deliberately drawn up to sidestep antitrust rules.

Chaotic scenes were visible at Heathrow, Gatwick, Manchester and Birmingham airports this week following a glitch in UK air traffic control systems. I mean, I assume the scenes were chaotic and visible. I've no idea, because I was on a boat at the time.

Storm Technology, a Littlefish Group company, today announced its strategic partnership with agentic security delivery platform ContraForce. The partnership strengthens Littlefish Group's managed security operations centre (SOC), supporting AI-powered threat investigation and response capabilities, designed to help Irish organisations embrace the opportunities of AI securely and confidently.

Vibe coding gave us apps nobody could maintain and now ‘vibe mathing’ may give us proofs nobody can actually learn from. Some context: Andrej Karpathy, one of OpenAI’s founding members, coined ‘vibe coding’ in February 2025 to describe a style of programming where you let AI do the work and “forget that the code even […]