Anthropic's Claude vulnerable to 'emotional manipulation'
AI model safety only goes so far
AI + ML12 Oct 2024 | 24
AI
Energy companies told to recharge for AI datacenter surge
Demand for electricity to outstrip supply soon, warns Bain
On-Prem11 Oct 2024 | 20
Why send a message when you can get your Zoom digital video clone to read the script?
We're sure colleagues will find your lookalike, soundalike avatar's missive very warm and human
AI + ML11 Oct 2024 | 26
Tesla's big reveal: Steering-wheel-free Robotaxi will charge wirelessly
WCGW? Plus: Automous Robovan also makes surprise appearance at Cybercab's coming out party
Personal Tech11 Oct 2024 | 192
AMD targets Nvidia H200 with 256GB MI325X AI chips, zippier MI355X due in H2 2025
Less VRAM than promised, but still gobs more than Hopper
Systems10 Oct 2024 | 5
AMD aims latest processors at AI whether you need it or not
Ryzen AI PRO 300 series leans heavily on Microsoft's Copilot+ PC requirements
AI + ML10 Oct 2024 | 6
BROADER TOPICS
OpenAI says Chinese gang tried to phish its staff
Claims its models aren't making threat actors more sophisticated - but is helping debug their code
Cybersecurity Month10 Oct 2024 | 3
Nobel Chemistry Prize goes to AlphaFold, Rosetta creators - another win for AI
Let’s just hope they don’t give the literature award to a bot, too
Science09 Oct 2024 | 5
Copilot's crudeness has left Microsoft chasing Google, again
Opinion Surely Redmond knows that almost nobody has tamed unstructured data?
AI + ML09 Oct 2024 | 26
Supermicro crams 18 GPUs into a 3U AI server that's a little slow by design
Can handle edge inferencing or run a 64 display command center
Systems09 Oct 2024 | 2
Asian crime gangs are growing – fast – thanks to AI and other tech
UN report finds Telegram, cryptocurrency are tools of a growing 'criminal service economy'
Cybersecurity Month09 Oct 2024 | 7
LinkedIn: If our AI gets something wrong, that's your problem
Artificial intelligence still no substitute for the real thing
AI + ML09 Oct 2024 | 21
AI godfather-turned-doomer shares Nobel with neural network pioneer
First-ever awarded for contributions to artificial intelligence
Science08 Oct 2024 | 28
TensorWave bags $43M to pack its datacenter with AMD accelerators
Startup also set to launch an inference service in Q4
Systems08 Oct 2024 |
Incumbent congressman not turning up to debates? Train an AI on his press releases
Hallucinations, made-up facts... and that's just the human politicians
AI + ML08 Oct 2024 | 10
Apple supplier Foxconn and Nvidia team up to deploy Taiwan's fastest AI supercomputer
How does 90 exaFLOPS sound?
HPC08 Oct 2024 |
Netizens are torturing Google's AI podcast hosts
NotebookLM's Audio Overview feature rudely discovers its wife never existed
AI + ML08 Oct 2024 | 13
Eric Schmidt: Build more AI datacenters, we aren't going to 'hit climate goals anyway'
Perhaps the power-draining tech is the solution after all, posits former Google CEO
AI + ML08 Oct 2024 | 78
AI-driven e-commerce fraud is surging, but you can fight back with more AI
Juniper Research argues the only way to beat them is to join them
AI + ML08 Oct 2024 | 6
A year after taking on Intel's NUC mini-PCs, Asus says it's ready to improve them
AI is showing the way to new possibilities after a tricky first year
Personal Tech08 Oct 2024 | 37
Inflection AI Enterprise offering ditches Nvidia GPUs for Intel's Gaudi 3
Struggling chipmaker scores another win
Systems07 Oct 2024 | 2
Cops love facial recognition, and withholding info on its use from the courts
Withholding exculpatory evidence from suspects isn't a great look when the tech is already questionable
Security07 Oct 2024 | 21
Why Cisco reportedly wants in on CoreWeave's rent-a-GPU racket
Analysis This may help Switchzilla hit $1B AI sales goal by FY25
Networks06 Oct 2024 |
Meta gives Llama 3 vision, now if only it had a brain
Hands on El Reg gets its claws in multimodal models - and shows you how to use them and what they can do
AI + ML06 Oct 2024 | 34
Harvard duo hacks Meta Ray-Bans to dox strangers on sight in seconds
'You can build this in a few days – even as a very naïve developer'
Cybersecurity Month04 Oct 2024 | 113
Not just AI datacenters needing own power: Taiwanese server-maker Quanta has bought microgrids
California utilities couldn't deliver for hyperscalers' favorite hardware slinger
Systems04 Oct 2024 | 5
AI’s energy appetite too big for Texas grid, regulators warn
Updated Datacenters coming online in the next 15 months will need to supply at least some of their own power
On-Prem04 Oct 2024 | 23
Google expands visual, audio search, lets AI handle layout
AI Overviews get links to referenced websites – and ads
AI + ML03 Oct 2024 | 3
Submer dives into $55.5M funding to cool down hot-blooded AI datacenters
Tech's consumption of water and energy driving interest in liquid cooling
On-Prem03 Oct 2024 | 4
‘Undigestible rate of change’ sees vendor supergroup create ‘The Open Compute of AI’
It’s called ‘Cosmos’ and Nvidia, Cisco, X, SuperMicro and VAST Data all think it will help – them and you
AI + ML03 Oct 2024 | 3
Another OpenAI founder moves to arch-rival Anthropic
Just two of the gang of eleven remain as safety concerns swirl
AI + ML02 Oct 2024 | 21
AI agent promotes itself to sysadmin, trashes boot sequence
Fun experiment, but yeah, don't pipe an LLM raw into /bin/bash
AI + ML02 Oct 2024 | 94
China trains 100-billion-parameter AI model on home grown infrastructure
Research institute seems to have found Huawei to do it – perhaps with Arm cores - despite sanctions
AI + ML02 Oct 2024 | 15
California governor vetoes controversial AI safety law, tells everyone to start over
Newsom doesn't want Golden State to lose its golden goose
AI + ML30 Sep 2024 | 14
Anthropic's UK revenue not enough to stop $4B Amazon union, says watchdog
Tie-up between AI toolmaker and Bezos biz doesn't qualify for merger partnership probe
AI + ML30 Sep 2024 | 5
Raspberry Pi AI Camera takes inferencing load off the CPU
HANDS ON Autofocus would have been nice, though
AI + ML30 Sep 2024 | 25
AI code helpers just can't stop inventing package names
LLMs are helpful, but don't use them for anything important
AI + ML30 Sep 2024 | 64
Data harvesting superapp admits it struggled to wield data – until it built an LLM
Engineers at Grab don't need to ask each other questions any more
AI + ML27 Sep 2024 | 9
FTC sues five AI outfits – and one case in particular raises questions
From allegations of lying about capabilities to fake reviews. Plus: Biden AI robocaller finally fined $6M
AI + ML26 Sep 2024 | 16
Blackstone invests £10B to build Europe's 'biggest AI datacenter' in UK
Construction slated to begin next year at site of failed BritishVolt plant
Systems26 Sep 2024 | 17
Uncle Sam accuses Aussie AI startup boss of financial fakery that duped investors
Crikey! $40M of investments in 'digital employees' allegedly went down faster than a frosty Fosters
Legal26 Sep 2024 | 14
OpenAI to reveal secret training data in copyright case – for lawyers' eyes only
Counsel for aggrieved authors will view info in a secure room, without internet access, and no devices present
AI + ML26 Sep 2024 | 16
If your AI does the crime, you'll do the time, warns DoJ
Add compliance requirements to your AI to-do list
AI + ML25 Sep 2024 | 31
Altman reportedly asks Biden to back a slew of multi-gigawatt-scale AI datacenters
With 2.5 million Blackwell GPUs, would gobble enough energy to power millions of homes
Systems25 Sep 2024 | 26
US Army drafts AI to combat recruitment shortfall
No more cold calls: Recruit 360 pinpoints top prospects from millions
AI + ML25 Sep 2024 | 15
Apple ropes off at least 4 GB of iPhone storage to house AI
Better or worse than a surprise U2 album?
AI + ML25 Sep 2024 | 37
AI PCs will dominate shipments by 2026, but not because of demand
Buying computers without the tech to get harder as chipmakers compete for cash, say analysts
AI + ML25 Sep 2024 | 33
NASA, IBM just open sourced an AI climate model so you can fine-tune your own
Prithvi, Prithvi, Prithvi good
Science25 Sep 2024 | 23
AI chatbot gets green light to hallucinate your investment portfolio
Service due to roll out later this month, despite fears AI will crash the market
AI + ML25 Sep 2024 | 18
As IBM pushes for more automation, its AI simply not up to the job of replacing staff
So say our sources, who warn job cuts, outsourcing risk depriving biz of seasoned technical talent
Off-Prem24 Sep 2024 | 53
Cloudflare tightens screws on site-gobbling AI bots
When robots.txt just ain't cutting the mustard
AI + ML24 Sep 2024 | 13
AI to power the corporate Windows 11 refresh? Nobody's buying that
Opinion Microsoft should look to Apple for lessons in flogging dead horses
Personal Tech23 Sep 2024 | 68
Chinese server-maker Inspur claims it's on track for better liquid cooling with 'railway sleeper' design
Beijing is happy at surging sales and production capacity, falling energy requirements
Systems23 Sep 2024 | 3
Microsoft cash to help reignite Three Mile Island atomic plant
We'll have some fission chips, please
On-Prem20 Sep 2024 | 60
Alibaba Cloud claims its modular datacenter architecture shrinks build times by 50 percent
Also reveals boosted utilization rates, upgraded IaaS and more – all in the name of AI apps
Off-Prem20 Sep 2024 | 4
Dutch watchdog wants more powers after EU drops Microsoft Inflection probe
Concerns over the elimination of a future competitor through acquihiring
AI + ML19 Sep 2024 | 1
Kelsey Hightower: If governments rely on FOSS, they should fund it
Interview Kubernetes doyen talks to The Reg about keeping coders coding
Software19 Sep 2024 | 44
SiFive expands from RISC-V cores for AI chips to designing its own full-fat accelerator
Seems someone's looking for an Arm wrestle
AI + ML19 Sep 2024 | 4
Broadcom CEO predicts hyperscalers poised to build million-accelerator clusters
Hock Tan reckons the silicon sales cycle is about to swing up, sharply, too
Systems19 Sep 2024 | 7
Lenovo turns to India as source of AI servers
Another win for the Make In India policy, but a small one in terms of product volume
Systems19 Sep 2024 | 2
LinkedIn started harvesting people's posts for training AI without asking for opt-in
Updated Opt out if you don't like it – EU and a few others, including now the UK, excepted
AI + ML19 Sep 2024 | 89
California governor goes on AI law signing spree, but demurs on the big one
Newsom still worried about SB 1047's 'chilling effect' on AI industry tax dollar revenue innovation in the state
AI + ML18 Sep 2024 | 16
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