Oracle investors hear the magic word 'Nvidia' and boom! Buy, buy, buy Forget the piffle about real world results, let's look at the potential of wundertech Databases12 Mar 2024 |
We asked Intel to define 'AI PC'. Its reply: 'Anything with our latest CPUs' If it has a GPU and NPU, plus VNNI and DP4a instructions, it qualifies. But it's not a brand like vPro or Ultrabook Personal Tech12 Mar 2024 | 26
Microsoft calls AI privacy complaint 'doomsday hyperbole' Plaintiffs seek termination of permissionless and unpaid AI data harvesting Legal12 Mar 2024 | 31
Singapore's central bank warns AI isn't ready to handle monetary policy LLMs show promise, but are 'not yet capable of providing credible explanations for their own predictions' AI + ML12 Mar 2024 | 9
GPT-4 won't run Doom but will play the game poorly Should we worry this model is happy to grab a gun and start blasting? AI + ML11 Mar 2024 | 22
AI models show racial bias based on written dialect, researchers find Those using African American vernacular more likely to be sentenced to death, if LLMs were asked to decide AI + ML11 Mar 2024 | 72
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is back on the company's board, along with three new members AI in brief PLUS: Microsoft bars prompts to make Copilot less violent and NSFW AI + ML11 Mar 2024 | 8
You got legal trouble? Better call SauLM-7B Cooked in a math lab, here's an open source LLM that knows the law AI + ML09 Mar 2024 | 27
Biden's State of the Union included a battle cry against AI mimicry Lots of pats on the back for the CHIPS Act too AI + ML09 Mar 2024 | 16
Palantir wins US Army contract for battlefield AI US spy-tech firm at center of UK health data systems applies its technology to altogether different ends AI + ML08 Mar 2024 | 19
AI mishaps are surging – and now they're being tracked like software bugs Interview The Register speaks to the folks behind the AI Incident Database AI + ML08 Mar 2024 | 8
Broadcom says VMware to grow revenue by double-digit percentages all year Networking silicon surges, Carbon Black to be kept in the fold Virtualization08 Mar 2024 | 12
India plans 10,000-GPU sovereign AI supercomputer Puts $1.2 billion on the table for AI skills and local LLMs, tells private enterprise it expects help Public Sector08 Mar 2024 | 5
Reddit rolling out AI bouncer to halt harassment If any mods are considering an anti-IPO blackout, you could be replaced by a bot AI + ML07 Mar 2024 | 13
Reminder: Infostealer malware is coming for your ChatGPT credentials Singaporean researchers note rising presence of OpenAI logins in infostealer malware logs Security07 Mar 2024 | 14
Chinese chap charged with stealing Google’s AI datacenter secrets Moonlighted for PRC companies after side-stepping Big G's security, allegedly On-Prem07 Mar 2024 | 13
Desktop GPU shipments jumped by a third – no thanks to AI PCs Prices stabilized, so buyers opened their wallets AI + ML06 Mar 2024 | 6
Governments not keen on pushing citizen-facing AI services, for obvious reasons As soon as public sector implements GenAI, someone will do their best to break it... or even flirt with it AI + ML06 Mar 2024 | 4
OpenAI goes public with Musk emails, claiming he backed for-profit plans Be careful what you write in that message AI + ML06 Mar 2024 | 22
China pushes 'AI Plus' initiative to integrate technology and industry Beijing used a similar moniker for program that arguably gave us TikTok, Tencent, and Xiaomi Public Sector06 Mar 2024 | 5
Trump supporters forge AI deepfakes to woo Black voters Perps argue that if you vote based on one fake pic you get what you deserve AI + ML05 Mar 2024 | 40
AMD hires former Oak Ridge chief to punt AI to governments You get a 'sovereign' AI, and you get a 'sovereign' AI, everybody gets a 'sovereign' AI AI + ML05 Mar 2024 | 1
Nvidia now plays kingmaker in the server court, says Omdia AI's appetite for compute means general refreshes stalled as customer used budgets elsewhere On-Prem05 Mar 2024 | 1
Dell exec reveals Nvidia has a 1,000-watt GPU in the works Hot and hungry, yet direct liquid cooling may not be required On-Prem05 Mar 2024 | 19
AMD may have failed to dumb down its chips enough to allow China sales Washington reportedly decided chipmaker hadn’t done too little Public Sector05 Mar 2024 | 9
Cloudflare wants to put a firewall in front of your LLM Claims to protect against DDoS, sensitive data leakage Security05 Mar 2024 | 2
Anthropic unlocks Claude 3, claims it's better than ChatGPT and Gemini Boasts of 'near-human levels of comprehension and fluency' AI + ML05 Mar 2024 | 29
Amazon goes nuclear, acquires Cumulus Data's atomic datacenters for $650M E-commerce giant on the hook for 480MW of power from Susquehanna plant Off-Prem04 Mar 2024 | 13
Apple gets in on the AI PC hype, claims fanless M3 MacBook Air is fab for LLMs Plus a new anodization seal should make Midnight edition more resilient to gamer grease Personal Tech04 Mar 2024 | 26
Google advances with vector search in MySQL, leapfrogging Oracle in LLM support Meanwhile, only 22% of orgs are looking at GenAI strategy for databases Databases04 Mar 2024 | 2
Cruise's valuation halved after its driverless car hit and dragged a woman AI in brief Plus: Google CEO admits company got it wrong when it built 'too-woke' AI, and more AI + ML04 Mar 2024 | 28
Synopsys unleashes Ethernet on steroids with 1.6T blueprint to turbocharge AI training Design aims to sate the bandwidth hunger of next-gen networks Networks04 Mar 2024 |
India demands beta AIs secure government permission before going public Not compulsory for now, but IT minister says that's coming after Google's Gemini said the quiet part out loud AI + ML04 Mar 2024 | 2
Dell share price jumps 16% on mention of AI server backlog Not bad considering exec had said '2024 didn't go as planned' due to declining overall sales On-Prem01 Mar 2024 | 9
Incoming wave of AI is making buying PCs riskier for businesses Worse than having no tech would be having the wrong tech Personal Tech01 Mar 2024 | 22
Stack Overflow to charge LLM developers for access to its coding content No more freebies – Google signs up to improve Gemini's programming abilities AI + ML01 Mar 2024 | 13
AI to fix UK Civil Service's bureaucratic bungling, deputy PM bets 'Computer-says-no' to be replaced by summaries written by LLMs trained on government data Public Sector01 Mar 2024 | 55
HPE blames GPU shortage for contributing to unexpected sales slide Even when Nvidia delivers, customers struggle to get datacenters ready to handle the heat On-Prem01 Mar 2024 | 4
The Who’s Who of AI just chipped in to fund humanoid robot startup Figure $675 million to accelerate development of machine that can lift, but can’t keep up with humans AI + ML29 Feb 2024 | 15
Sandra Rivera’s next mission: Do for FPGAs what she did for Intel's Xeon Chipzilla resurrects Altera brand as former datacenter chief takes the helm Systems29 Feb 2024 | 18
Water worries flood in as chip industry and AI models grow thirstier Mega makers already operate in water-scarce areas, and worry is they'll drink us dry Systems29 Feb 2024 | 32
Hold up world, HP's all-in-one print subscription's about to land, and don't forget AI PCs Too late to prevent Q1 from being 7th straight decline for US titan Personal Tech29 Feb 2024 | 51
Hands up if you want to volunteer for layoffs, IBM tells staff Exclusive Global 'Resource Actions' to hit Europe hard, with Enterprise Ops & Support, CIO, HR and Real Estate in firing line Software29 Feb 2024 | 40
Google sued by more than 30 European media orgs over adtech Meanwhile, the Google News Initiative is pushing AI tools for publishers Legal29 Feb 2024 | 6
Baidu admits it may never get leading-edge GPUs again Execs swear Chinese cloud will beat local rivals with a superior software stack that makes AI sing AI + ML29 Feb 2024 | 2
OpenAI sued, again, for scraping and replicating news stories The Intercept, Raw Story, AlterNet want damages and to have their content removed from models AI + ML29 Feb 2024 | 17
BEAST AI needs just a minute of GPU time to make an LLM fly off the rails Talk about gone in 60 seconds AI + ML28 Feb 2024 | 10
Willy Wonka event leaves bitter taste with artificially sweetened promises Charlie and the AI factory flop compared to 'meth lab' Bootnotes28 Feb 2024 | 46
Europe probes Microsoft's €15M stake in AI upstart Mistral Cash-for-Azure-access deal went through just as latest LLM landed AI + ML28 Feb 2024 | 3
OpenAI claims New York Times paid someone to 'hack' ChatGPT Super lab alleges 'deceptive prompts' that it happily processed - and may have tracked - weren't fair, so case should be dismissed AI + ML28 Feb 2024 | 26
US military pulls the trigger, uses AI to target air strikes People still make the final decision, but recent raids in Iraq and Syria had help AI + ML27 Feb 2024 | 25
Today in tech layoffs: Sony Interactive and Expedia Game over for 900 staff as PlayStation London office and more shuttered CxO27 Feb 2024 | 9
What is GitHub Copilot Enterprise? You and your org just might find out firsthand Big biz invited to like and subscribe, without fear of litigation Devops27 Feb 2024 | 5
Intel urges businesses to undergo AI PC facelift with vPro update You know you want to throw out that Windows 10 fleet Systems27 Feb 2024 | 10
Meta to build election operations center in Europe to inspect AI content Fact-checkers will label AI-generated media for upcoming EU elections AI + ML27 Feb 2024 | 40
Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be coders, Jensen Huang warns Maker of ML accelerators wants more people to use ML AI + ML27 Feb 2024 | 131
'How do I reset my router' isn't in LLM corpuses. An alliance of telcos wants to change that Customer service data from five top telcos across Asia, Europe, and UAE will feed a carrier-centric multi-lingual chatbots AI + ML27 Feb 2024 | 14
With over 600 CHIPS fund applicants seeking over $70B, don't get your hopes up Commerce secretary warns priority will go to shovel-ready projects Systems26 Feb 2024 | 4
Man admits to paying magician $150 to create anti-Biden robocall Steve Kramer claims the whole thing was a ruse to regulate AI in politics AI + ML26 Feb 2024 | 20
Nvidia talks up local AI with RTX 500, 1000 Ada mobile GPUs As always, the lack of memory could prove limiting Systems26 Feb 2024 | 1
Dell promises 'every PC is going to be an AI PC' whether you like it or not Windows 11 didn't kickstart a refresh cycle so here's another excuse AI + ML26 Feb 2024 | 77
Qualcomm inserts GenAI into smartphones at industry's mega tradeshow MWC Just what Android fans were missing, amirite? A 7 billion parameter LLM that accepts image and voice prompts? Systems26 Feb 2024 | 2