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Phillip de Wet

Phillip de Wet

Phillip de Wet started in journalism as an honest B2B IT-sector reporter before straying into business, politics, and international affairs. He is currently in recovery, studying AI while writing about everything from hardware to infosec policy.

"The year of surgical refactors": $400 in tokens saves $500k in annual costs, says former vibe-code sceptic

Implementing a JSON data query-and-transform language in Go saves on both latency and Kubernetes costs.

AWS, Azure, offer data egress sweeteners - at the point of a sword

Microsoft will still face an inquiry about bundling cloud with software licences.

China's chipmakers are reportedly in triage mode ahead of expected helium supply cliff

The secretive nature of the helium market makes inventory levels the stuff of rumour and speculation, but it is not looking good.

Microsoft asks Claude to keep ChatGPT honest in new Copilot feature

Similar to "academic and professional research" processes, says Microsoft of defaulting to two-engine research mode.

Europe's AI hope Mistral lands $830m in debt, days after open-sourcing text-to-speech contender

First debt raise for the company that shares NVIDIA's philosophy: the real money lies in giving away the models for free.

Copilot to train on GitHub, security agents comes free(ish) to 365 E5

Enterprise users are excluded from the GitHub training data hoover, but will have security agents turned on, with free basic use, for Microsoft 365 E5.

Co-Op CEO makes a hasty exit as cyberattack loss hits £285m

Shirine Khoury-Haq to leave on Sunday, because recovering from the attack will take too long.

China's open source AI is giving it a competitive edge – and US companies are taking note

Congress was warned that holding back compute will not stop China's accelerating AI and the global adoption of its models.

Google brings back dark web scans – now with AI everywhere

Enterprise-targeted surveillance processes "tens of millions" of posts a day, and Gemini is smart enough to avoid false positives, Google swears.

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