Machine learning saves £4.4M in UK.gov work and pensions fraud detection
Poor data standards across government hamper scaling, says Parliament spending watchdog
Public Sector27 Oct 2025 | 40
Machine Learning
Berkeley boffins build better load balancing algo with AI
One way AI can improve on human work
AI + ML25 Oct 2025 | 8
Don't take AI to Thanksgiving: Bots have hidden biases
It's not a bug, it's a feature
AI + ML23 Oct 2025 | 14
Lance takes aim at Parquet in file format joust
Challenger seeks to unseat incumbent for machine learning workloads
Databases14 Oct 2025 |
Google fuses SQL, Python, and Spark in Colab Enterprise push
Move comes as Snowflake and Databricks chase the same all-in-one analytics dream
Databases26 Sep 2025 | 4
DARPA wants AI to know when it's being an energy hog
New research program seeks ‘energy-aware’ ML that balances performance with power draw
AI + ML25 Sep 2025 | 1
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Microsoft unveils home-made ML models amid OpenAI negotiations
Microsoft AI honcho insists partnership with Sam Altman's brainbox behemoth is alive and well
AI + ML28 Aug 2025 | 4
DeepSeek's new V3.1 release points to potent new Chinese chips coming soon
Point release retuned with new FP8 datatype for better compatibility with homegrown silicon
AI + ML22 Aug 2025 | 4
In Otter news, transcription app accused of illegally recording users’ voices
Vidchat hosts probably know Otter.ai records everything and feeds it into AI. Their guests may not
Legal18 Aug 2025 | 15
COVID-19 pandemic accelerated brain aging – even if you didn’t catch the virus
Boffins think worry and stress during the plague years changed our wetware, and that the damage can be reversed
Science23 Jul 2025 | 27
OpenAI wants to bend copyright rules. Study suggests it isn’t waiting for permission
GPT-4o likely trained on O’Reilly books without permission, figures appear to show
AI + ML03 Apr 2025 | 31
Speech now streaming from brains in real-time
Boosted human-computer interface promises better communication for patients who lost ability to speak
Science02 Apr 2025 | 22
Even Google struggles to balance fast-but-pricey flash and cheap-but-slow hard disks
Reveals it ‘dramatically improved IOPS and throughput’ of its own storage with homebrew 'L4' automation and cache
The State of Storage27 Mar 2025 | 11
Aardvark beats groundhogs and supercomputers in weather forecasting
PC-size ML prediction model predicted to be as good as a super at fraction of the cost
Science26 Mar 2025 | 31
This open text-to-speech model needs just seconds of audio to clone your voice
Hands on El Reg shows you how to run Zyphra's speech-replicating AI on your own box
AI + ML16 Feb 2025 | 47
Mental toll: Scale AI, Outlier sued by humans paid to steer AI away from our darkest depths
Who guards the guardrail makers? Not the bosses who hire them, it's alleged
AI + ML24 Jan 2025 | 15
AI pothole patrol to snap flaws in Britain's crumbling roads
Now if only the councils could afford to fill them
Offbeat21 Jan 2025 | 141
Foundation model for tabular data slashes training from hours to seconds
Good ol' spreadsheet data could benefit from 'revolutionary' approach to ML inferences
Databases15 Jan 2025 | 9
SAP says GenAI will help solve legacy migration skills shortage
As 2027 support deadline looms, German vendor puts faith in on-trend tech to help SIs do more with less
Databases10 Dec 2024 | 15
Wish there was a benchmark for ML safety? Allow us to AILuminate you...
Very much a 1.0 – but it's a solid start
AI + ML05 Dec 2024 | 13
Google DeepMind touts AI model for 'better' global weather forecasting
Bases predictions on historical data, instead of solving physics equations
AI + ML05 Dec 2024 | 39
One thing AI can't generate at the moment – compelling reasons to use it for work
Kettle Our vultures think this tech is interesting but in its 8-bit stage
AI + ML23 Nov 2024 | 51
NIST trains AI to hear the 'oh crap' moment before batteries explode
Machine learning used to separate opening a can of soda from something catastrophic
Science18 Nov 2024 | 26
Perplexity AI decries News Corp's 'simply false' data scraping claims
'They prefer to live in a world where publicly reported facts are owned by corporations'
AI + ML25 Oct 2024 | 24
Chinese boffins build soft robot finger that can take your pulse
It can also type, so the robo-doctor can heal you and write legibly
Science11 Oct 2024 | 26
AI godfather-turned-doomer shares Nobel with neural network pioneer
First-ever awarded for contributions to artificial intelligence
Science08 Oct 2024 | 27
Netizens are torturing Google's AI podcast hosts
NotebookLM's Audio Overview feature rudely discovers its wife never existed
AI + ML08 Oct 2024 | 12
Have we stopped to think about what LLMs actually model?
Claims about much-hyped tech show flawed understanding of language and cognition, research argues
AI + ML30 Aug 2024 | 150
The future of AI/ML depends on the reality of today – and it's not pretty
Opinion The return of Windows Recall is more than a bad flashback
AI + ML27 Aug 2024 | 110
LLM-driven C-to-Rust. Not just a good idea, a genie eager to escape
Opinion Automatic for the people? Don’t mind if we do
Software12 Aug 2024 | 89
Is AI going to pay its way? Wall Street wants tech world to show it the money
Kettle 2025 could be Peak Nvidia when reality finally kicks in
AI + ML01 Aug 2024 | 32
The secret to better weather forecasts may be a dash of AI
Google adds machine learning to climate models for 'faster forecasts'
Science27 Jul 2024 | 93
AI models face collapse if they overdose on their own output
Recursive training leads to nonsense, study finds
AI + ML25 Jul 2024 | 136
Meta claims ‘world’s largest' open AI model with Llama 3.1 405B debut
Zuck says he wants to mimic Linux and go open source, kind of
AI + ML23 Jul 2024 | 11
Etched looks to challenge Nvidia with an ASIC purpose-built for transformer models
Startup says Sohu chip will be 20x faster than Nvidia's H100 in Llama 70B … assuming it's actually built
AI + ML26 Jun 2024 | 6
Want to save the planet from AI? Chuck in an FPGA and ditch the matrix
Watts down, doc: Boffins find machine learning models can function with more modest power requirements
AI + ML26 Jun 2024 | 35
Bake an LLM with custom prompts into your app? Sure! Here's how to get started
Hands on In Rust, we trust. But in gen-AI to not hallucinate? Eh, that's another story
AI + ML22 Jun 2024 | 6
Anthropic delivers Claude 3.5 model – and a new way to work with chatbots
Video Fast, funny, visionary, sure ... anything that knocks OpenAI down a peg will do
AI + ML20 Jun 2024 | 11
Google DeepMind's latest model promises realistic audio for your AI-generated vids
Video Launch comes as Runway, Pika, Kling push the boundaries of machine-imagined video
AI + ML18 Jun 2024 | 2
Mistral AI raises $644M, hits $6.2B in valuation
French firm has nearly tripled in value since beginning of the year
AI + ML12 Jun 2024 | 2
Really? A sarcasm detector? Wow. You shouldn't have
Computers learning to spot sass – what could go wrong?
Bootnotes20 May 2024 | 41
Microsoft offers China-based engineers an option to relocate
Office could be decimated with around 800 offers reportedly made
Software17 May 2024 | 40
And it begins. OpenAI mulls NSFW AI model output
That's a new twist on open, then
AI + ML09 May 2024 | 29
ML suggests all that relaxing whale song might just be human-esque gossiping
Now this is our kind of click bait
AI + ML09 May 2024 | 14
Big brains divided over training AI with more AI: Is model collapse inevitable?
Gosh, here's us thinking recursion was a solved problem
AI + ML09 May 2024 | 64
AI Catholic 'priest' defrocked after recommending Gatorade baptism
Devotees were speaking to an entity who didn't exist – imagine that
Bootnotes03 May 2024 | 140
Anthropic goes after iPhone fans with Claude 3 chatbot app
Also adds a Teams plan that's still under development
AI + ML01 May 2024 | 4
Big Cloud is still making bank – Is this AI adoption, price rises, or what?
Kettle Shareholders are loving it. What are customers getting out of it all?
AI + ML26 Apr 2024 | 4
Microsoft shrinks AI down to pocket size with Phi-3 Mini
Language model focused on reasoning fits on a smartphone and runs offline
AI + ML23 Apr 2024 | 11
Stability AI decimates staff just weeks after CEO's exit
More like Instability AI, right kids?
AI + ML18 Apr 2024 | 13
Why making pretend people with AGI is a waste of energy
Interview Industrial revolution didn't give us human mimics, so why should AI think like us, this computer scientist wonders
AI + ML14 Apr 2024 | 61
Arm flexes silicon muscles to push generative AI at the edge
Ethos-U85 microNPU boasts 4x performance boost over previous gen
Systems09 Apr 2024 | 1
Developers are calling the shots on AI planning, judging by your experience
Reader Poll Results And American CIOs keep a closer eye on the purse strings than European equivalents
AI + ML08 Apr 2024 |
Belgian beer study acquires taste for machine learning
Researchers reckon results could improve recipe development for food and beverages
AI + ML27 Mar 2024 | 10
CNCF boss talks 'irrational exuberance' in an AI-heavy Kubecon keynote
Updated Kubecon? More like Queuecon as Paris show's registration system experiences temporary borkage
Software22 Mar 2024 | 11
New York Times: OpenAI’s claim we 'hacked' its products both 'irrelevant' and 'false'
Media giant's counterfiling accuses AI darling of 'spin' in copyright infringement case
AI + ML13 Mar 2024 | 3
Nvidia rival Cerebras says it's revived Moore's Law with third-gen waferscale chips
Startup is also working with Qualcomm on optimized models for its Cloud AI 100 Ultra inference chips
Systems13 Mar 2024 | 12
Can AI shorten PC replacement cycles? Dell seems to think so
Might be wishful thinking from finance exec following two-year computer sector recession
Personal Tech13 Mar 2024 | 79
Meta seeks ASIC designers for ML accelerators and datacenter SoCs
Appears to be struggling to find them, even in India, as it's re-posted job ads
On-Prem23 Feb 2024 | 14
Quilter's AI design service nabs $10M to make circuit board design easier
Claims what took weeks to do by hand, machine learning can do in hours
AI + ML15 Feb 2024 | 2
IBM Japan and NTT think they can make datacenter aircon adjust to different workloads
They're measuring server exhaust temperatures to detect power consumption
AI + ML07 Feb 2024 | 17
Robots with a 'Berliner Schnauze' may appear more trustworthy to locals
Dialect study a mixed bag when it comes to droids speaking highbrow German
Bootnotes31 Jan 2024 | 22
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