Reuters: Citigroup says AI helps speed account openings and systems upgrades
Citi is using AI to speed up account openings and the retirement of old software.
Finextra: New York state force stores to accept cash
New York state is forcing stores to accept cash.
Mirror: Major high street bank reopening branches in U-turn after shutting 800 locations
Barclays realise that the personal touch is still best.
Reuters: DeepSeek’s V4 model will run on Huawei chips, The Information reports
Chinese chip vendors are emerging for AI.
Interesting Engineering: Silicon quantum processor achieves full logical operations for the first time
Researchers have built a silicon quantum chip that runs logical operations with built-in error detection and real algorithms
Electronic Engineering Journal: FPGAs Beating GPUs at LLM Inference: Say What?!?
FPGA’s have been around for a long time.
Finextra: Bank of Ireland equips staff for AI-driven future
Banks are focusing more on AI training for their existing employees.
New Atlas: Elon Musk’s next moonshot: The $20B “largest chip manufacturing facility ever”
Elon Musk now plans to build the largest chip manufacturing facility ever built.