Qualcomm eyes pieces of Intel’s struggling chip business

Qualcomm eyes pieces of Intel’s struggling chip business

Qualcomm is reportedly exploring the possibility of acquiring parts of Intel’s chip design business to enhance its product portfolio. This potential move comes as Intel faces financial difficulties, prompting the company to consider divesting certain business units and assets, according to a Reuters report. Qualcomm has been evaluating various parts of Intel’s design operations, with…

Now that Qualcomm’s interested, will Apple buy (a little more) Intel?

Now that Qualcomm’s interested, will Apple buy (a little more) Intel?

Qualcomm is allegedly sniffing at the beleaguered remains of Intel and may try to acquire parts of the company. Will Apple make its own counterproposal? Apple’s decision to abandon its processors in favor of Apple Silicon reflected a wider malaise. Try as it might, Intel found itself unable to accelerate processor development to the same extent as Apple found…

GenAI could make the Apple Watch a powerful healthcare tool

GenAI could make the Apple Watch a powerful healthcare tool

Generative AI (genAI) features added to an existing Apple Watch health app may light the path toward personalized and data-led healthcare for patients with Parkinson’s disease. The StrivePD app is made by Rune Labs, a California-based entity focused on delivering next-generation care for people with neurological disorders. StrivePD has been enhanced with new genAI-created clinical reporting tools that…

Copilot+ PCs that use Intel and AMD chips coming in November

Copilot+ PCs that use Intel and AMD chips coming in November

Copilot+ PCs — special Windows computers equipped with the latest AI functions — first arrived in May. But only hardware using Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite or X Plus chips were designated as ready for Copilot+ by Microsoft As of November, new PCs that run processors from Intel and AMD will also be covered. Specifically, they’ll…

Australia pushes for AI rules, focusing on oversight and accountability

Australia pushes for AI rules, focusing on oversight and accountability

Australia has outlined plans for new AI regulations, focusing on human oversight and transparency as the technology spreads rapidly across business and everyday life. The country’s Industry and Science Minister, Ed Husic, on Thursday, introduced ten voluntary AI guidelines and launched a month-long consultation to assess whether these measures should be made mandatory in high-risk…

Microsoft-Inflection deal is a merger, but that’s OK, says UK

Microsoft-Inflection deal is a merger, but that’s OK, says UK

The UK’s antitrust regulator has concluded its investigation into Microsoft’s hiring of the majority of staff from Inflection and its licensing of the company’s technology. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) published a summary of its decision Wednesday, finding that while the Microsoft’s actions constituted a “relevant merger situation” and thus fall under its purview,…

How to set up Windows 11 Hyper-V virtual machines

How to set up Windows 11 Hyper-V virtual machines

Though it may seem that virtual machines, a.k.a. VMs, have been around forever, Microsoft introduced its first version of the Hyper-V virtualization environment as part of Windows Server 2008. Hyper-V and its VMs didn’t appear in a Windows desktop operating system until May 2012 with the Windows 8 technical preview. Since then, however, Hyper-V VMs…

The AI glasses market comes into focus

The AI glasses market comes into focus

According to credible rumors, Snap and Meta will soon unveil their next-generation AI glasses. Snap might introduce its fifth-generation Spectacles at the Snap Partner Summit on Sept. 17. Features like a wider field of view and improved battery life could grace a production run of fewer than 10,000 units for developers. (The current 4th-generation Spectacles…

Apple might take a stake in OpenAI as it gets intelligent on AI

Apple might take a stake in OpenAI as it gets intelligent on AI

Apple isn’t paying OpenAI to carry support for the generativeAI (genAI) firm’s Chat GPT within Apple Intelligence, but it might instead invest in the Microsoft-backed company. The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple is in talks to take part in a new funding round for OpenAI. If it follows suit, it will join Microsoft, Nvidia, and Thrive…