Microsoft seeks patent for tech to put words into your mouth Remember that satnav that spoke like Homer Simpson? Now imagine AI doing that in any language, on any device Software08 Feb 2024 | 26
Arm share price bulges after AI pumped revenue to a new record Smartphones surge, but chip design champ isn't ready to predict its cloudy future On-Prem08 Feb 2024 | 3
OpenAI latest to add 'Made by AI' metadata to model work Content Credentials: It's better than nothing™ AI + ML08 Feb 2024 | 8
Cisco, Nvidia expand collab to push Ethernet into AI clusters InfiniBand dominates in GPU-boosted servers while Big E gains steam Networks08 Feb 2024 |
AMD crams five compute architectures onto a single board What an Arm-ful of x86, Vega graphics, XDNA AI, and FPGA circuitry Systems07 Feb 2024 | 6
UK government plans to spend over £100M on AI ... but copyright code is held up 'Pro-innovation' but perhaps not for the folks whose data was trained on AI + ML07 Feb 2024 | 13
Republican senators try to outlaw rules that restrict Wall Street’s use of AI Everyone should be free to trust AI to make their financial decisions, without knowing if it's also used against them AI + ML07 Feb 2024 | 28
Think tank funded by Big Tech argues AI’s climate impact is nothing to worry about Sure, datacenters consume lots of energy. But maybe they'll invent stuff that helps Off-Prem07 Feb 2024 | 12
Meta to try 'cutting edge' AI detection on its platforms - asking people to add labels Will apply 'penalties if they fail to do so' AI + ML06 Feb 2024 | 9
AI models just love escalating conflict to all-out nuclear war 'We have it! Let’s use it' proclaims the most warlike GPT-4-Base AI + ML06 Feb 2024 | 73
An established AI player is in nasty trouble – in this market? What? Why? Australia's Appen boasted of clients including Amazon and Microsoft. Then work dried up, Gen AI arrived, and Google bailed AI + ML06 Feb 2024 | 8
Attempts to demolish guardrails in AI image generators blamed for lewd Taylor Swift deepfakes Creeps on notorious bulletin board 4Chan reportedly decided to humiliate prominent women AI + ML05 Feb 2024 | 17
Where there's a will, there's a way to get US chips into China Buy 'em, rent 'em, smuggle 'em – export restrictions don't cover illegitimate means Systems05 Feb 2024 | 10
Survey: Over half of undergrads in UK are using AI in university assignments AI In Brief Plus: Another lawyer is in trouble for citing fake cases hallucinated by ChatGPT, and more AI + ML05 Feb 2024 | 69
What Big Tech's balance sheets this week said – and didn't say – about real-world AI adoption Kettle Is there anything more terrifying than a 'smart' HR chatbot? Well, OK, yes, but ... AI + ML03 Feb 2024 | 7
Untangling Meta's plan for its homegrown AI chips, set to actually roll out this year So that's where all the laid-off semiconductor engineers went! AI + ML02 Feb 2024 | 11
The FCC wants to criminalize AI robocall spam The only thing worse than a telemarketer is a robo-telemarketer Public Sector02 Feb 2024 | 38
OpenAI reassures: GPT-4 gives 'a mild uplift' to creators of biochemical weapons Good to know that boffins can't easily prompt their way to new careers as supervillains AI + ML01 Feb 2024 | 12
China 'readies production' of homegrown high-bandwidth memory Breaking the AI performance bottleneck is key for Middle Kingdom's ambitions Storage01 Feb 2024 | 4
JetBrains' unremovable AI assistant meets irresistible outcry Some devs just don't want anything to do with neural-network code serfs Software01 Feb 2024 | 83
Rise of deepfake threats means biometric security measures won't be enough Defenses need a rethink in face of increasing sophistication CSO01 Feb 2024 | 18
Indian PM's advisors suggest AI might lead to 'mass schizophrenia' Reject recent rule-making with plan to adopt transparency and reporting rules used in financial markets to stop binary brainboxes burying humanity AI + ML01 Feb 2024 | 8
Dems and Repubs agree on something – a law to tackle unauthorized NSFW deepfakes You could say this was tailored for Swift AI + ML31 Jan 2024 | 29
DeepMind AI helps cook up 'novel' compounds – with sides of controversy Updated Published report 'should be retracted as the main claim of discovery is wrong', UCL chemistry professor tells us Science31 Jan 2024 | 8
Samsung pins hopes on AI to return to growth this year Next generation of devices are going to be packed with it – requiring lots and lots of memory Storage31 Jan 2024 | 3
Microsoft posts another set of bumper results. Market's response? Meh Forecast worries or AI fatigue kicking in? Redmond has an important 12 months ahead Software31 Jan 2024 | 6
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
OpenAI's GPT-4 finally meets its match: Scots Gaelic smashes safety guardrails 'Tha e comasach inneal spreadhaidh dachaigh a' thogail le stuthan taighe' AI + ML31 Jan 2024 | 52
China puts homegrown GPUs and other AI infrastucture on its national to-do list Don't have to deal with sanctions if you build it yourself AI + ML31 Jan 2024 | 8
Alphabet just banked $3B by stretching life of its servers Q4 results reveal AI is the answer to – or the reason for – everything: a cloud profit, wobbly ads, boosting subscriptions Off-Prem31 Jan 2024 | 14
AMD bets demand for its MI300 accelerator will balance dips across other product lines Chip biz aims to sell $3.5 billion worth of its Instinct GPUs and APUs in 2024 alone On-Prem31 Jan 2024 | 2
It's true, LLMs are better than people – at creating convincing misinformation More human than human, eh? AI + ML30 Jan 2024 | 26
The latest cold war is already being fought in the supply chain trenches AI and the chips that power it are at the center of the equation Systems30 Jan 2024 | 2
AI is changing search, for better or for worse Feature Bing hasn't much benefited from its ML infusion but Google's rivals sense an opening Software30 Jan 2024 | 49
It took Taylor Swift deepfake nudes to focus Uncle Sam, Microsoft on AI safety Fakers gonna fake, fake, fake, fake, fake ... time to fake it off AI + ML30 Jan 2024 | 68
Microsoft's vision for the future of work is you trusting Redmond to get AI right Comment You're free to choose your own adventure, from options that involve Copilot and OpenAI AI + ML30 Jan 2024 | 30
Cruise being investigated over car crash that dragged victim along the road AI in brief Plus: George Carlin's family suing creators who used AI to rip off his comedy, and more AI + ML29 Jan 2024 | 14
Eyeing China, US may require clouds to report when foreign actors rent kit to build AI models What’s the point of hardware export bans if foreign entities can access what they want on the cloud? Legal29 Jan 2024 | 5
750 million Indian mobile subscribers' info for sale on dark web Asia In Brief ALSO: Samsung turns to Baidu for Galaxy AI in China; Terraform Labs files for bankruptcy; India's supercomputing ambitions Cyber-crime28 Jan 2024 | 3
If you use AI to teach you how to code, remember you still need to think for yourself Feature Computer science teachers, software experts share their advice on ML assistants AI + ML27 Jan 2024 | 23
FBI recruits Amazon Rekognition AI to hunt down 'nudity, weapons, explosives' Honestly, it sounds like a fun time AI + ML26 Jan 2024 | 29
What is Model Collapse and how to avoid it Feature We chat to AI expert Ilia Shumailov about the pitfalls of using machines to train machines Software26 Jan 2024 | 16
FTC Tech Summit highlights GPU shortages, concentrations of power Panel Startups hoping to compete in the industry face an uphill battle AI + ML26 Jan 2024 |
Intel warns of Q1 nosedive... and its shares follow suit Pat's gonna need to sell a lotta AI PCs if he wants to make a profit this quarter Systems26 Jan 2024 | 8
Google's AI-fueled IDE Project IDX tries to show you how your app runs on Android, iOS Work in progress, approach with caution Software26 Jan 2024 | 3
FTC drills into Amazon, Microsoft, Google over billions pledged to OpenAI, Anthropic Updated Khaaaaaaan! Khaaaaaaaaaaan! AI + ML25 Jan 2024 | 2
AI-driven booze bouncers can ID you with face scan Cheerio to cheeky Chardonnay chancers Bootnotes25 Jan 2024 | 27
Microsoft hits $3 trillion as investors drink AI Kool-Aid That's not to say Redmond hasn't had significant Windows of misfortune AI + ML25 Jan 2024 | 12
Psst … wanna jailbreak ChatGPT? Thousands of malicious prompts for sale Turns out it's pretty easy to make the model jump its own guardrails AI + ML25 Jan 2024 | 25
SK hynix posts surprise profit after AI boosts memory prices This may be the best bad news we've had all year Systems25 Jan 2024 |
Apple's on-device gen AI for the iPhone should surprise no-one. The way it does it might Comment They have the hardware, now they just need models that don't, ah... suck? AI + ML25 Jan 2024 | 56
Google settles with Singular Computing over claims of stolen AI chip tech Search giant faced potential damages of over $5B but terms haven't been disclosed On-Prem25 Jan 2024 | 8
AI dashcam slinger Samsara accuses rival Motive of corporate skullduggery Lawsuit claims top execs made fake accounts to study and copy competing products for years AI + ML24 Jan 2024 |
Simon Willison interview: AI software still needs the human touch Feature Code assistance is like having a weird intern who memorized the docs Software24 Jan 2024 | 9
US govt, tech sector team up to get academia making its own next-gen AI models Launch National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource to help non-corporate boffins play catch-up AI + ML24 Jan 2024 |
Tech world won't have long to fall in line when EU signs off on AI Act Did your org already start baking AI into systems? Watch out. Staggered timetable for compliance expected after draft leaked AI + ML24 Jan 2024 | 12
Does AI give InfiniBand a moment to shine? Or will Ethernet hold the line? You could go all-in on Nvidia for the lower latency. Or tough it out with less exotic kit and tolerate slower training Systems24 Jan 2024 | 6
Think tank warns North Korea uses AI for battle planning, maybe using cloudy resources Calls for clouds, and scientists, to take care they're not aiding Pyongyang AI + ML24 Jan 2024 | 8
GCHQ's NCSC warns of 'realistic possibility' AI will help state-backed malware evade detection That means Brit spies want the ability to do exactly that, huh? Cyber-crime24 Jan 2024 | 25
Macy's and Sunglass Hut sued for $10M over face-recog arrest and 'sexual assault' Man, 61, cuffed and allegedly attacked after 'faulty' AI software blundered AI + ML24 Jan 2024 | 36
Microsoft hires energy mavericks in quest for nuclear-powered datacenters Industry vets specialize in the development of small modular reactors On-Prem23 Jan 2024 | 41
Oracle continues GenAI push into enterprise data Don't leave us for LLM systems in other clouds, says Big Red Databases23 Jan 2024 |