Posts by Mike Knight
World’s First $5 Trillion Company
Nvidia has become the first company in history to reach a $5 trillion market valuation, as investors bet that demand for its artificial intelligence chips will continue at record levels across global industries. Who Is Nvidi? Why Does It Matter? Nvidia began in the 1990s as a designer of graphics processing units (GPUs) for gaming…
Read MoreBrands Pay To Be Recommended By AI, Not Google
The Prompting Company has raised $6.5 million to help businesses get mentioned in AI-generated answers from tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude, signalling a major shift in how people now discover products online. Who Is The Prompting Company? The Prompting Company is a young, Y Combinator-backed startup (Y Combinator is a Silicon Valley startup accelerator)…
Read MoreMicrosoft Accusedly Misleads Over Copilot Prices
Australian regulators have taken Microsoft to court, alleging the company misled around 2.7 million Microsoft 365 users by implying they had to accept a higher-priced AI-powered plan or cancel altogether, while failing to reveal a cheaper alternative that was still available. What Happened and Why? The case focuses on Microsoft’s handling of its consumer subscription…
Read MoreOpenAI Unveils ChatGPT-Powered Atlas Browser
OpenAI has released Atlas, a free macOS web browser built around ChatGPT, and it arrives with big ambitions, useful features, and some immediate security questions. What OpenAI Has Launched, And Why It Matters OpenAI describes Atlas as “a new web browser built with ChatGPT at its core.” The idea of Atlas is, rather than visiting a website,…
Read MoreUK Ruling Could Mean Apple Compo For Millions
A UK competition court has ruled that Apple abused its market power with App Store fees, paving the way for compensation that lawyers say could total up to £1.5 billion for around 36 million iPhone and iPad users. What The Tribunal Decided The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) found that Apple held “near absolute market power” in two…
Read MoreClippy Returns To Life As ‘Mico’
Microsoft has introduced “Mico”, a new animated avatar for its Copilot assistant that can be transformed into the classic Clippy paper clip, a light-hearted feature that sits within a much wider update focused on making AI more personal, expressive, and easier to use across Microsoft’s ecosystem. What Microsoft Is Launching And When? Mico is the…
Read MoreAmazon AWS … What Happened?
Amazon Web Services has issued a full apology and technical explanation after a 15-hour outage in its North Virginia data region took thousands of major platforms offline, exposing the internet’s heavy dependence on a handful of US cloud providers. What Happened? The incident began late on Sunday 19 October, when engineers at Amazon’s US-East-1 data…
Read MoreAI-Generated Code Blamed for 1-in-5 Breaches
A new report has revealed that AI-written code is already responsible for a significant share of security incidents, with one in five organisations suffering a major breach linked directly to code produced by generative AI tools. Vulnerabilities Found in AI Code The finding comes from cybersecurity company Aikido Security’s State of AI in Security &…
Read MoreGoogle’s New ‘Recovery Contacts’: Unlock Lost Accounts
Google has introduced Recovery Contacts, a new way for users to regain access to a locked Google Account by asking trusted friends or family members to confirm their identity. What Google Has Announced Google says Recovery Contacts is “a new option that lets users choose trusted friends or family members to help if they ever get…
Read MoreWaymo’s Driverless Rides Shortly in London
Waymo has confirmed plans to bring its fully autonomous, driverless ride-hailing service to London in 2026, beginning supervised testing on public roads in the coming weeks. Waymo, And What It Has Announced Waymo, Alphabet’s (Google’s) autonomous driving company that began as Google’s self-driving car project in 2009, has announced its first major European expansion (to…
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