Intel is reportedly launching new CPUs on a five-year-old socket to allow DDR4
Intel is reportedly launching new CPUs on a five-year-old socket to allow DDR4

Gigabyte says new Intel processors will arrive on the five-year-old LGA1700 socket in early 2027, and has updated the BIOS across its whole B760 and H610 lineup. The socket takes DDR4, which costs far less than DDR5 in a market where AI has pushed memo…

Vittorio Colao: Europe missed the digital wave and must not miss the next
Vittorio Colao: Europe missed the digital wave and must not miss the next

Europe has less than 2 gigawatts of AI computing capacity and needs more, former Vodafone chief executive Vittorio Colao said. He spoke at a closed-door press Q&A at Wave by Vento in Turin on Friday, the event’s last day. “Europe missed the big dig…

Sam Altman says OpenAI will put its mission before its share price
Sam Altman says OpenAI will put its mission before its share price

Sam Altman said OpenAI will put its mission ahead of its share price once it goes public, even if the stock “falls a lot”. The OpenAI chief executive said it in an interview with Vanity Fair, published on 5 October. Vanity Fair global editorial directo…

Tesla renames Full Self-Driving to Tesla Assisted Driving across Europe
Tesla renames Full Self-Driving to Tesla Assisted Driving across Europe

Tesla has renamed Full Self-Driving to Tesla Assisted Driving across its European websites, days after Germany said the old name was misleading. The page under the new name is unchanged, and the real obstacle to EU approval is speed rather than brandin…

Perficient launches AI tools for Medicare Advantage star ratings management
Perficient launches AI tools for Medicare Advantage star ratings management

Perficient has launched an AI suite to help Medicare Advantage plans raise their CMS star ratings, which decide access to more than $13B a year in federal bonus payments. It arrived a day after CMS published 2027 ratings showing fewer plans qualifying,…

EU’s cyber agency and research centre are testing Chinese AI models
EU’s cyber agency and research centre are testing Chinese AI models

The EU’s cyber agency, ENISA, and the Commission’s own science service, the Joint Research Centre, have started testing open AI models from China, Politico reported. Three EU officials confirmed the work, the first time either body has spoken about it….

Spirit’s privacy ombudsman backs Google’s $10m data deal
Spirit’s privacy ombudsman backs Google’s $10m data deal

The privacy official in Spirit Airlines’ bankruptcy has recommended approval of the sale of deidentified Spirit Airlines data to Google. In a report filed on 5 October, ombudsman Lucy Thomson said Spirit and Google had taken passenger databases out of …

Giorgia Meloni files to trademark her voice against AI deepfakes
Giorgia Meloni files to trademark her voice against AI deepfakes

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has applied to trademark her voice at the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). The EUIPO record lists a sound mark filed on 5 October in her own name, as an individual, through the Italian firm Prax…

Google moves free Gemini to Flash-Lite and launches Nano Banana 2.1
Google moves free Gemini to Flash-Lite and launches Nano Banana 2.1

From today, Gemini app users without a paid Google AI plan start losing two of its three models. Free personal accounts move to Gemini Flash-Lite only, according to Google’s Gemini Apps Help page. The change comes three days after Google released Nano …

Zuckerberg called Muse ready despite the risks, New York Times reports
Zuckerberg called Muse ready despite the risks, New York Times reports

In August, Mark Zuckerberg met Meta’s chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang, and its head of AI product, Nat Friedman, Eli Tan reported for The New York Times on Friday. They discussed Instinct, a 14-person start-up whose AI agent was taking off. Zuckerberg …