Show top LLMs some code and they'll merrily add in the bugs they saw in training One more time, with feeling ... Garbage in, garbage out AI + ML19 Mar 2025 | 24
Nvidia's Vera Rubin CPU, GPU roadmap charts course for hot-hot-hot 600 kW racks GTC Now that's what we call dense floating-point compute Nvidia GTC19 Mar 2025 | 5
Do AI robo-authors qualify for copyright? It's still no, says appeals court Updated Computer scientist Stephen Thaler again told his 'Creativity Machine' can't earn a © AI + ML18 Mar 2025 | 27
Dell discloses monster 20-petaFLOPS desktop built on Nvidia's GB300 Superchip GTC HPE and Lenovo also have plans to put Jensen's latest hardware to work Nvidia GTC18 Mar 2025 | 32
Nvidia wants to put a GB300 Superchip on your desk with DGX Station, Spark PCs GTC Or a 96 GB RTX PRO in your desktop or server Nvidia GTC18 Mar 2025 | 4
Nvidia punts silicon photonic switches to keep GPUs fed with data GTC Power sipping bandwidth bottleneck busters – or that's the hope, anyway Nvidia GTC18 Mar 2025 | 1
We heard you like HBM – Nvidia's Blackwell Ultra GPUs will have 288 GB of it GTC There goes AMD's capacity advantage Nvidia GTC18 Mar 2025 | 8
Amazon accused of using algorithms to push warehouse workers to breaking point Web souk hits back at critical study into union drive at package depot Applications18 Mar 2025 | 14
AI crawlers haven't learned to play nice with websites SourceHut says it's getting DDoSed by LLM bots AI + ML18 Mar 2025 | 20
Don't want Copilot app on your Windows 11 machine? Install this official update Microsoft says disappearance of Clippy 2.0 is an error it will shortly fix AI + ML17 Mar 2025 | 35
Amazon to kill off local Alexa processing, all voice requests shipped to the cloud Web souk says Echo hardware doesn't have the oomph for next-gen AI anyway AI + ML17 Mar 2025 | 81
This one weird trick can make online publishing faster, safer, more attractive, and richer Opinion Well, maybe not richer, but we're about to find out Software17 Mar 2025 | 74
OK, Google: Are you killing Assistant and replacing it with Gemini? Yes, we are. And we promise your 'Droid and smart home kit will get a 'new experience' AI + ML17 Mar 2025 | 59
China announces plan to label all AI-generated content with watermarks and metadata Asia In Brief PLUS: Foxconn wants 40 percent AI server market share; Atlassian CEO jets into controversy; Starlink reaches 800 million in India; And more! AI + ML17 Mar 2025 | 19
DeepSeek-R1-beating perf in a 32B package? El Reg digs its claws into Alibaba's QwQ Hands on How to tame its hypersensitive hyperparameters and get it running on your PC AI + ML16 Mar 2025 | 24
AI bubble? What AI bubble? Datacenter investors all in despite whispers of a pop Billions continue to pour into bit barns across the globe On-Prem14 Mar 2025 | 38
SUSE doubles down on AI and Multi-Linux Support to prove it's still in the game SUSECON25 What has more than a decade of support ahead of it cannot be dead AI + ML14 Mar 2025 | 12
IBM boss Arvind Krishna pockets 23% pay rise to $25M CEO salary watch What about the average Big Blue worker? $48,582 up from $43,069 Software14 Mar 2025 | 35
AI running out of juice despite Microsoft's hard squeezing Opinion Biz leaders still dream of obedient agents replacing workers. In the actual workplace, they're going AWOL AI + ML14 Mar 2025 | 101
Dems ask federal agencies for reassurance DOGE isn't feeding data into AI willy-nilly Pouring sensitive info into unapproved, unaccountable, unsafe models would be a 'severe' cybersecurity fail AI + ML13 Mar 2025 | 32
DoorDash sued for allegedly branding customer a fraudster after delivery photo query Dispute over app privacy escalates into legal brawl
Microsoft isn't fixing 8-year-old shortcut exploit abused for spying 'Only' a local access bug but important part of N Korea, Russia, and China attack picture
AI crawlers haven't learned to play nice with websites SourceHut says it's getting DDoSed by LLM bots
UK wants dirt on data brokers before criminals get there first Govt yearns to learn mistakes of serially breached record holders so it can, er, liberalize data sharing regs
Curious tale of two HR tech unicorns, alleged espionage, and claims of a spy hiding in a bathroom Updated There's nothing bog-standard about this bombshell loo-suit
Ubuntu 25.10 plans to swap GNU coreutils for Rust It's easier to replace bits of userland than the kernel
Amazon accused of using algorithms to push warehouse workers to breaking point Web souk hits back at critical study into union drive at package depot
Dell discloses monster 20-petaFLOPS desktop built on Nvidia's GB300 Superchip GTC HPE and Lenovo also have plans to put Jensen's latest hardware to work
Extortion crew threatened to inform Edward Snowden (?!) if victim didn't pay up Don't laugh. This kind of warning shows crims are getting desperate
We did not have Brave clashing with Rupert Murdoch on our 2025 bingo card, but there it is Indie browser maker asks judge for legal shield against copyright threats over AI summaries AI + ML13 Mar 2025 | 44
OpenAI asks Uncle Sam to let it scrape everything, stop other countries complaining Updated The rest of the world doesn't think 'fair use' is fair but we should make 'em AI + ML13 Mar 2025 | 102
Microsoft tempted to hit the gas as renewables can't keep up with AI So much for 'carbon negative by 2030' On-Prem13 Mar 2025 | 17
Frack to the future? Geothermal energy pitched as datacenter savior If operators are willing to cough up a 'green premium' and tax credits are not repealed On-Prem13 Mar 2025 | 55
AI models hallucinate, and doctors are OK with that Eggheads call for comprehensive rules to govern machine learning in medical settings AI + ML13 Mar 2025 | 51
Nvidia won the AI training race, but inference is still anyone's game Comment When it's all abstracted by an API endpoint, do you even care what's behind the curtain? Systems12 Mar 2025 | 5
ServiceNow's new AI agents will happily volunteer for your dullest tasks Yokohama release also adds meta-observabiilty and takes a tilt at CRM AI + ML12 Mar 2025 | 11
Microsoft adds another Copilot hotkey – this time for AI voice chat Hold Alt + Spacebar for two seconds, and Clippy 2.0 is all ears OSes11 Mar 2025 | 32
Cerebras to light up datacenters in North America and France packed with AI accelerators Plus, startup's inference service makes debut on Hugging Face On-Prem11 Mar 2025 | 4
Data deluge pushes financial services deeper into AI Harnessing AI to optimize applications and services is crucial but building the infrastructure is equally important Sponsored Feature
MINJA sneak attack poisons AI models for other chatbot users Nothing like an OpenAI-powered agent leaking data or getting confused over what someone else whispered to it AI + ML11 Mar 2025 | 15
Judge says Meta must defend claim it stripped copyright info from Llama's training fodder Facebook giant allegedly didn't want neural networks to emit results that would give the game away AI + ML11 Mar 2025 | 20
Consumer Reports calls out slapdash AI voice-cloning safeguards Study finds 4 out of 6 providers don't do enough to stop impersonation AI + ML10 Mar 2025 | 7
Manus mania is here: Chinese ‘general agent’ is this week’s ‘future of AI' and OpenAI-killer Prompts see it scour the web for info and turn it into decent documents at reasonable speed AI + ML10 Mar 2025 | 11
Surprise! People don't want AI deciding who gets a kidney transplant and who dies or endures years of misery Researchers find AI isn't ready to help with moral decision making AI + ML08 Mar 2025 | 78
HPE revenue outlook feels the thump of Trump tariffs Thousands brace for layoffs as shares slide 20% On-Prem07 Mar 2025 | 15
Do you DARE? Europe bets once again on RISC-V for supercomputing sovereignty €240M found for three-year sprint to develop three chiplets for HPC, AI HPC07 Mar 2025 | 37
Google teases AI Mode for search, giving Gemini total control over your results It's just an opt-in Labs curio for now, but so were those ever-present Overviews Personal Tech06 Mar 2025 | 33
Ex-Googler Schmidt warns US: Try an AI 'Manhattan Project' and get MAIM'd ANALYSIS That's Mutual Assured AI Malfunction in the race for superintelligence AI + ML06 Mar 2025 | 35
Microsoft goes native with Copilot. Again This time we mean it for the Windows chatbot AI + ML06 Mar 2025 | 43
It begins: Pentagon to give AI agents a role in decision making, ops planning Updated Former allies, take note. This is a WOPR AI + ML05 Mar 2025 | 41
Run DeepSeek R1 on an Apple M3 Ultra Mac Studio? Sure, it'll just cost you $9,499-plus Desktop family gets chip boost as MacBook Air bags an M4 upgrade, more memory, price cut Personal Tech05 Mar 2025 | 17
Brits end probe into Microsoft's $13B bankrolling of OpenAI Redmond doesn't have total control over GPT maker so we lack authority, say monopoly cops AI + ML05 Mar 2025 | 6
Microsoft teases sales agent automation for M365 and Dynamics 365 Redmond says you could ask one for a 'list of deals ... at risk of falling through' AI + ML05 Mar 2025 | 3
Worry not. China's on the line saying AGI still a long way off Instead of Turing Test, subject models to this Survival Game to assess intelligence, scientist tells The Reg AI + ML05 Mar 2025 | 42
Maybe cancel that ChatGPT therapy session – doesn't respond well to tales of trauma Great, we've taken away computers' ability to be accurate and given them anxiety AI + ML05 Mar 2025 | 38
CoreWeave rides AI wave with IPO filing – but its fate hinges on Microsoft GPU farm discloses 77% of revenue tied to just two customers, putting Redmond giant front and center AI + ML04 Mar 2025 |
It's bad enough we have to turn on cams for meetings, now the person staring at you may be an AI deepfake Says the biz trying to sell us stuff to catch that, admittedly AI + ML04 Mar 2025 | 18
Phantom of the Opera: AI agent now lurks within browser, for the lazy Too shiftless to even click on a few things while online shopping, hm? Just ask this built-in assistant AI + ML03 Mar 2025 | 12
Microsoft warns Trump: Where the US won't sell AI tech, China will Rule hamstringing our datacenters is 'gift' to Middle Kingdom, vice chair argues AI + ML28 Feb 2025 | 28
Microsoft names alleged credential-snatching 'Azure Abuse Enterprise' operators Crew helped lowlifes generate X-rated celeb deepfakes using Redmond's OpenAI-powered cloud – claim AI + ML28 Feb 2025 | 3
FDA clears Google watch feature to call 911 if you flatline It looks like you have died. Would you like help? Offbeat27 Feb 2025 | 53
Nope. You probably can't cash in by turning your office or farm into a datacenter APRICOT Bit barn developer says your real estate can't take the heat, and forget nuking it to change that On-Prem27 Feb 2025 | 33
Does terrible code drive you mad? Wait until you see what it does to OpenAI's GPT-4o Updated Model was fine-tuned to write vulnerable software – then suggested enslaving humanity AI + ML27 Feb 2025 | 127
Cash torrent pouring into Nvidia slows – despite booming Blackwell adoption May we all have problems like annual revenue growth dropping from 126 to 114 percent Nvidia GTC27 Feb 2025 | 9
Network edge? You get 64-bit Armv9 AI. You too, watches. And you, server remote management. And you... Arm rolls out the Cortex-A320 for small embedded gear that dreams of big-model inference Networks26 Feb 2025 | 6
Workday talks up AI agents platform that will reap rewards of staff cuts CEO assures investors he'll plough headcount savings into risk-management enterprise product AI + ML26 Feb 2025 | 20
Satya Nadella says AI is yet to find a killer app that matches the combined impact of email and Excel Microsoft CEO is more interested in neural nets boosting GDP than delivering superhuman intelligence AI + ML26 Feb 2025 | 71
IBM plans to buy open source Cassandra wrangler DataStax Big Blue eyes integration with its AI development studio Databases25 Feb 2025 | 1
Hurrah! AI won't destroy developer or DBA jobs Uncle Sam's number-crunchers warn lawyers, customer service reps to brace for change, say techies will be fine Databases25 Feb 2025 | 11
How nice that state-of-the-art LLMs reveal their reasoning ... for miscreants to exploit Analysis Blueprints shared for jail-breaking models that expose their chain-of-thought process AI + ML25 Feb 2025 | 30
Despite Wall Street jitters, AI hopefuls keep spending billions on AI infrastructure Comment Sunk cost fallacy? No, I just need a little more cash for this AGI thing I’ve been working on AI + ML25 Feb 2025 | 10
LLM aka Large Legal Mess: Judge wants lawyer fined $15K for using AI slop in filing Plus: Anthropic rolls out Claude 3.7 Sonnet AI + ML25 Feb 2025 | 33
Microsoft's drawback on datacenter investment may signal AI demand concerns Investment bank claims software giant ditched 'at least' 5 land parcels due to potential 'oversupply' AI + ML24 Feb 2025 | 20
IBM Consulting workers told management wants to 'more closely align pay, performance' Exclusive At least they're not having to 'justify' recent work or resign Software24 Feb 2025 | 54
As China embraces Big Tech again, Alibaba plans vast spend to push for artificial general intelligence Asia in Brief Plus: Samsung exec jailed for selling DRAM secrets; ASUS launches sweetly scented mouse; Toyota’s smart city nears opening; and more AI + ML23 Feb 2025 | 2
If you thought training AI models was hard, try building enterprise apps with them Interview Aleph Alpha's Jonas Andrulis on the challenges of building sovereign AI AI + ML23 Feb 2025 | 4
Hey programmers – is AI making us dumber? Opinion If you don't need to think about easy questions, will you be able to answer complex questions? AI + ML21 Feb 2025 | 94
Microsoft expands Copilot bug bounty targets, adds payouts for even moderate messes Said bugs 'can have significant implications' – glad to hear that from Redmond AI + ML20 Feb 2025 | 7
GitLab and its execs sued again and again over 'misleading' AI hype, price hikes Bosses bragged about Duo Chat bot, buyers weren’t buying it – claim AI + ML20 Feb 2025 | 7
Euro cloud biz trials 'server blades in a cold box' system Hot air or a 50% energy saving? Exoscale datacenter runs proof-of-concept to test veracity of Digger's claims On-Prem20 Feb 2025 | 14
Data intelligence comes first when building AI Getting better with AI might depend on the data infrastructure getting better first Sponsored Feature
A big AI build has ‘stalled’ and won’t happen this year as funds and GPUs prove elusive Arista trumpeted its role in this project for a year. Good thing business is otherwise solid On-Prem20 Feb 2025 | 12
We meet the protesters who want to ban Artificial General Intelligence before it even exists Feature STOP AI warns of doomsday scenario, demands governments pull the plug on advanced models AI + ML19 Feb 2025 | 31
Microsoft boffins promise entire game worlds made from AI slop WHAM, bam, no thank you, ma'am? AI + ML19 Feb 2025 | 19
HP Inc to build future products atop grave of flopped 'AI pin' Tech and people behind IoT brooch that reviewers instantly hated will one day pep up printers Personal Tech19 Feb 2025 | 54
Grok 3 wades into the AI wars with 'beta' rollout Musk's latest attempt at a 'maximally truth-seeking' bot arrives AI + ML18 Feb 2025 | 46
Kelsey Hightower on dodging AI and the need for a glossary of IT terms Interview The science of the appliance and opening the lid of the black box to find... it's just software Software18 Feb 2025 | 28
DeepSeek disappears from South Korean app stores over privacy concerns Nation also orders thousands of GPUs to advance local AI smarts Public Sector18 Feb 2025 | 8
The future of AI is ... analog? Upstart bags $100M to push GPU-like brains on less juice Interview EnCharge claims 150 TOPS/watt, a 20x performance-per-watt edge AI + ML17 Feb 2025 | 17
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
Why AI benchmarks suck Anyone remember when Volkswagen rigged its emissions results? Oh... AI + ML15 Feb 2025 | 29
UK's new thinking on AI: Unless it's causing serious bother, you can crack on Comment Plus: Keep calm and plug Anthropic's Claude into public services AI + ML15 Feb 2025 | 80
Datacenter energy demand in bitbarn 'capital of the world' Virginia nearly doubled in second half of 2024 Dominion Energy already eyeing another 26 GW worth of datacenter demand On-Prem14 Feb 2025 | 7
HPE says blocking Juniper buy is a sure Huawei to ensure China and Cisco thrive Analyst argues stopping the deal benefits Switchzilla by preventing rise of strong challenger for AI networks Networks14 Feb 2025 | 9
Chinese AI marches on as Baidu makes its chatbot free, Alibaba scores Apple deal New ‘Deep Search’ thinking and planning bot to go up against peoples’ champion DeepSeek AI + ML14 Feb 2025 | 2
Lawyers face judge's wrath after AI cites made-up cases in fiery hoverboard lawsuit Talk about court red-handed AI + ML14 Feb 2025 | 95
Larry Ellison wants to put all America's data, including DNA, in one big Oracle system for AI to study From the billionaire who said real-time surveillance is good for keeping us in check AI + ML12 Feb 2025 | 69
IBM return-to-office order hits finance, ops teams amid push to dump staff for AI Demand described as a 'soft layoff' On-Prem12 Feb 2025 | 35
Running hot? Server shipments forecast to cool in 2025 Supply chain and regulatory hurdles likely to shrink figures On-Prem12 Feb 2025 | 2
EU plans to 'mobilize' €200B to invest in AI to catch up with US and China Captain's Log, Stardate 3529.7 – oh yeah, Commish also withdrawing law that would help folks sue over AI harms AI + ML12 Feb 2025 | 15
UK government insiders say AI datacenters may be a pricey white elephant Economy-boosting bit barn? Not in my back yard, some locals expected to say On-Prem12 Feb 2025 | 119
AI summaries turn real news into nonsense, BBC finds Updated Research after Apple Intelligence fiasco shows bots still regularly make stuff up AI + ML12 Feb 2025 | 105
After Copilot trial, government staff rated Microsoft's AI less useful than expected Not all bad news for Redmond as Australian agency also found strong ROI and some unexpected upsides AI + ML12 Feb 2025 | 54
A win at last: Big blow to AI world in training data copyright scrap You gotta fight ... for your Reuters ... to party AI + ML12 Feb 2025 | 34
I'm a security expert, and I almost fell for a North Korea-style deepfake job applicant …Twice Remote position, webcam not working, then glitchy AI face ... Red alert! CSO11 Feb 2025 | 82
DeepMind working on distributed training of large AI models Alternate process could be a game changer if they can make it practicable AI + ML11 Feb 2025 | 10
UK government using AI tools to check up on roadworthy testing centers Who tests the testers? AI + ML11 Feb 2025 | 59
Only 4 percent of jobs rely heavily on AI, with peak use in mid-wage roles Mid-salary knowledge jobs in tech, media, and education are changing. Folk in physical jobs have less to sweat about AI + ML11 Feb 2025 | 27
Some workers already let AI do the thinking for them, Microsoft researchers find Dammit, that was our job here at The Reg. Now if you get a task you don't understand, you may assume AI has the answers AI + ML11 Feb 2025 | 48