Meta declines to abide by voluntary EU AI safety guidelines
GPAI code asks for transparency, copyright, and safety pledges
AI + ML18 Jul 2025 | 5
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OpenAI deputizes ChatGPT to serve as an agent that uses your computer
LLM given keys to the web, told to behave and observe safeguards
AI + ML18 Jul 2025 | 19
Laid-off AWS employee describes cuts as 'cold and soulless'
Insiders tell The Register that a company-wide automation push means jobs are disappearing
AI + ML18 Jul 2025 | 19
AWS goes full speed ahead on the AI agent train
Video Running on Amazon Bedrock, AgentCore aims to pave the path from prototype to production
AI + ML17 Jul 2025 | 2
Boffins detail new algorithms to losslessly boost AI perf by up to 2.8x
New spin on speculative decoding works with any model - now built into Transformers
AI + ML17 Jul 2025 | 9
Meta used AI to concoct low-carbon concrete it poured for a datacenter floor
Bayesian optimizations apparently build better slabs
Off-Prem17 Jul 2025 | 33
Ex-OpenAI engineer pulls the curtain back on a chaotic hot mess
'Everything breaks when you scale that quickly'
AI + ML16 Jul 2025 | 19
Google plugs AI into nuclear reactor biz – what could possibly go wrong?
Westinghouse taps Big G's cloud smarts to speed up atomic plant builds and keep the grid humming
AI + ML16 Jul 2025 | 17
UK tech minister negotiated nothing with Google. He may get even less than that
Comment Peter Kyle promised alternative to 'ball and chain' of legacy systems, but he has no plan and little power
Public Sector16 Jul 2025 | 39
If you want a picture of the future, imagine humans checking AI didn't make a mistake – forever
Column CEOs will chase illusory profits as workers are left to pick defective items from an agentic production line
AI + ML16 Jul 2025 | 55
Uber to roll out thousands of robo-cabs built by China’s Baidu
Coming soon, somewhere in the Middle East or Asia
AI + ML16 Jul 2025 | 16
Curl creator mulls nixing bug bounty awards to stop AI slop
Maintainers struggle to handle growing flow of low-quality bug reports written by bots
AI + ML15 Jul 2025 | 21
German team warns ChatGPT is changing how you talk
Let us delve swiftly into meticulous inquiry with our AI masters
AI + ML15 Jul 2025 | 52
Mistral launches Voxtral speech recognition model
Apache-licensed plan takes aim at costlier options
AI + ML15 Jul 2025 | 5
Faceless megacorps could be a salary-hungry IT pro's best friend, if you're in AI that is
They might pay more, but don't expect a mega salary anymore
AI + ML15 Jul 2025 | 7
AI creeps into the risk register for America's biggest firms
S&P 500 businesses warn investors they may never see ROI in SEC filings
AI + ML15 Jul 2025 | 9
With Tomahawk Ultra, Broadcom asks who needs UALink when there's Ethernet?
The never Nvidia networking party just got another option
Networks15 Jul 2025 | 1
Former Google DeepMind engineer behind Simular says other AI agents are doing it wrong
Simular is starting with industries like insurance and healthcare with tons of forms to fill
AI + ML15 Jul 2025 | 22
Meta reveals plan for several multi-gigawatt datacenter clusters
First, Zuck takes Manhattan. Then he might actually deliver a product that matters
Off-Prem15 Jul 2025 | 31
Nvidia to resume sales to China – with Trump administration approval
Maybe CEO Jensen Huang's million-dollar meal at Mar-a-Lago has paid off in the form of permission to sell the H20 and a new RTX Pro GPU
Public Sector15 Jul 2025 | 8
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PUTTY.ORG nothing to do with PuTTY – and now it's spouting pandemic piffle
Linking can be helpful – but not always… while disinformation can spread like a virus
Quantum code breaking? You'd get further with an 8-bit computer, an abacus, and a dog
Computer scientist Peter Gutmann tells The Reg why it's 'bollocks'
Laid-off AWS employee describes cuts as 'cold and soulless'
Insiders tell The Register that a company-wide automation push means jobs are disappearing
Watch out, another max-severity, make-me-root Cisco bug on the loose
Updated Three perfect 10s in the last month - ISE, ISE, baby
FCC dives in to sink Chinese grip on undersea internet cables
Maybe finish ripping and replacing your telco networks first?
‘I nearly died after flying thousands of miles to install a power cord for the NSA’
On Call This job was a car wreck in more than one way
Google sues 25 alleged BadBox 2.0 botnet operators, all of whom are in China
Ads giant complains of damage to its reputation and finances ... and crime, too
As companies race to add AI, terms of service changes are going to freak a lot of people out
Analysis WeTransfer added the magic words 'machine learning' to its ToS and users reacted predictably
The Smoot – How an MIT prank became a lasting unit of measurement
Interview We spoke to the smoot's namesake
OpenAI deputizes ChatGPT to serve as an agent that uses your computer
LLM given keys to the web, told to behave and observe safeguards
STORIES
Malaysia closes a back door that may have allowed US-sourced AI chips to reach China
Stricter regulation follows last week's tariff whack
Public Sector15 Jul 2025 | 4
Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI get $800M to hop in bed with Pentagon
Updated Looks like DoD FOMO struck Silicon Valley
Public Sector14 Jul 2025 | 13
AWS previews Kiro IDE for developers who are over vibe coding
Delivers specs in the form of user stories
AI + ML14 Jul 2025 | 12
xAI's Grok lurches into right-wing insanity, offers tips on assaulting man
Opinion MechaHitler? Garbage In, Garbage Out
AI + ML14 Jul 2025 | 98
EU-sponsored report says GenAI's 'fair use' defense does not compute
Just because a student reads a book doesn't mean Midjourney gets to eat Disney
AI + ML14 Jul 2025 | 39
Google’s Gemini refuses to play Chess against the mighty Atari 2600 after realizing it can't match ancient console
Warned that ChatGPT and Copilot had already lost, it stopped boasting and packed up its pawns
AI + ML14 Jul 2025 | 99
From A2A to MCP, a look at the protocols that might one day help AI automate you out of a job
Tell me, Mr. Smith ... what good is an agent if it's unable to speak?
AI + ML12 Jul 2025 | 7
AI coding tools make developers slower but they think they're faster, study finds
Predicted a 24% boost, but clocked a 19% drag
AI + ML11 Jul 2025 | 91
Tech to protect images against AI scrapers can be beaten, researchers show
ai-pocalypse Data poisoning, meet data detox
AI + ML11 Jul 2025 | 18
China's biggest car rental company now offers autonomous cars
Three-seater from Baidu delivers itself, follows directions, then finds its way home
AI + ML11 Jul 2025 | 17
EU tries to explain how to do AI without breaking the law
A new code aims to make it easy to figure out
AI + ML10 Jul 2025 | 8
Firebase Studio's new Agent Mode wants to code so you don't have to
Gemini CLI integration is nice, but there's little polish in building apps from prompts
Software10 Jul 2025 |
Microsoft says regulations and environmental issues are cramping its Euro expansion
'I don't think there's a spare megawatt sitting anywhere idle in all of Europe, or the US, as a matter of fact'
On-Prem10 Jul 2025 | 50
Sovereign-ish: Google Cloud keeps AI data in UK, but not the support
Processing and storage for Gemini 2.5 Flash to stay in Blighty
AI + ML10 Jul 2025 | 6
At last, a use case for AI agents with sky-high ROI: Stealing crypto
Boffins outsmart smart contracts with evil automation
AI + ML10 Jul 2025 | 14
Swiss boffins just trained a 'fully open' LLM on the Alps supercomputer
Source code and weights coming later this summer with an Apache 2.0 bow on top
HPC10 Jul 2025 | 13
Chinese TV uses AI to translate broadcasts into sign language. It’s not going well
Deaf professor who worked on one product says developers won’t listen to feedback – about their products or their tech bro ways
AI + ML10 Jul 2025 | 25
How to trick ChatGPT into revealing Windows keys? I give up
No, really, those are the magic words
Research09 Jul 2025 | 101
Perplexity rips another page from the Google playbook with its own browser, Comet
Built on Chromium, ironically
AI + ML09 Jul 2025 | 30
Microsoft pushes $4B at AI education for the masses
Hey, teacher, leave those kids to AI
AI + ML09 Jul 2025 | 13
Shiny object syndrome spells doom for many AI projects, warns EPA CIO
Chasing the hype without a clear use case? You may crash and burn
Public Sector09 Jul 2025 | 20
Anubis guards gates against hordes of LLM bot crawlers
Updated Using proof of work to block the web-crawlers of 'AI' companies
AI + ML09 Jul 2025 | 34
Elon Musk's Grok chatbot posts Mein Kampf 2.0 in now-deleted X rant
No word on who pressed the 'MechaHitler' button
Personal Tech09 Jul 2025 | 29
How BigQuery combines data and AI for business transformation
AI ingests and prepares data to generate valuable insight, but only with the right data warehousing system.
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C-suite sours on AI despite rising investment, survey finds
Akkodis report suggests people skills may be helpful to bring out the best in AI
AI + ML09 Jul 2025 | 39
Georgia court throws out earlier ruling that relied on fake cases made up by AI
'We are troubled by the citation of bogus cases in the trial court’s order'
AI + ML08 Jul 2025 | 38
Samsung predicts profit slump as its HBM3e apparently continues to underwhelm Nvidia
Analysis Investors advised to brace for massive fall from Q1 to Q2
Systems08 Jul 2025 | 3
Scholars sneaking phrases into papers to fool AI reviewers
Using prompt injections to play a Jedi mind trick on LLMs
AI + ML07 Jul 2025 | 72
Move over bit barns, here come Japan’s floating bit barges
As power concerns beset builds, this floating datacenter can plug into powership next door
On-Prem07 Jul 2025 | 13
Game, set, botch: AI umpiring at Wimbledon goes long
Line-judging tech flubs crucial point, leaving players and fans seeing red
Offbeat07 Jul 2025 | 38
AI scores a huge own goal if you play up and play the game
Opinion A virtual environment makes a great de-hype advisor
AI + ML07 Jul 2025 | 35
Ousted US copyright chief argues Trump did not have power to remove her
Shira Perlmutter lost her job after her office published report on generative AI and fair use limits
AI + ML04 Jul 2025 | 63
Amazon built a massive AI supercluster for Anthropic called Project Rainier – here's what we know so far
deep dive It's almost like AWS is building its own Stargate
On-Prem04 Jul 2025 | 26
We're number 1! Windows 11 finally overtakes Windows 10
Three months to go until support ends, and Microsoft's flagship operating system squeaks past its predecessor
OSes04 Jul 2025 | 59
Former and current Microsofties react to the latest round of layoffs
'JFC, again?'
Software04 Jul 2025 | 106
EU businesses want a pause on AI regulations so they can cope with unregulated Big Tech players
Mistral fears continental companies may not get time to escape 'distant, behemoth corporations'
AI + ML04 Jul 2025 | 42
AI models just don't understand what they're talking about
Researchers find models' success at tests hides illusion of understanding
AI + ML03 Jul 2025 | 65
Tariffs and trade turmoil driving up cost and build times for datacenters
World War Fee Biz needs AI infra for training ever larger models, but something's gotta give
On-Prem03 Jul 2025 | 7
How multi-agent systems revolutionize data work flows
Why spend time massaging data yourself when an army of agents can do it for you?
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Call center staffers explain to researchers how their AI assistants aren't very helpful
ai-pocalypse Lots of manual corrections and data entry still required
AI + ML02 Jul 2025 | 42
With OpenAI, there are no allegiances - just compute at all costs
Analysis Google's TPUs might not be on Altman's menu just yet, but he's never been all that picky about hardware
AI + ML01 Jul 2025 | 3
Cloudflare creates AI crawler tollbooth to pay publishers
ai-pocalypse The bargain between content makers and crawlers has broken down
AI + ML01 Jul 2025 | 20
Senate decides free rein for AI companies isn't such a good thing
Trump's budget bill moves back to the House with some mods
Public Sector01 Jul 2025 | 13
Microsoft Copilot joins ChatGPT at the feet of the mighty Atari 2600 Video Chess
Copilot's confidence was... misplaced
AI + ML01 Jul 2025 | 76
Folks aren’t buying the PCs that US vendors stockpiled to dodge tariffs
World War Fee Plus: Consumers respond to imminent Win 10 cutoff date with collective 'Meh'
Personal Tech01 Jul 2025 | 67
People have empathy with AI… as long as they think it's human
Study finds emotional support from chatbots is more readily accepted if participants don't know it's an AI
AI + ML01 Jul 2025 | 8
Want a job? Just put 'AI skills' on your resume
ai-pocalypse It could just be the new 'proficient with MS Word'
AI + ML30 Jun 2025 | 17
AIs have a favorite number, and it's not 42
Ask a model to guess a number from 1 to 50 and it's likely to answer 27
AI + ML30 Jun 2025 | 31
Arm muscles into server market – but can't wrestle control from x86 just yet
Server shipments surge 70% in 2025, still shy of datacenter dominance goal
Systems30 Jun 2025 | 1
Cloud lobby warns EU: Clamp down on water rules and we'll evaporate
CISPE floats reforms to avoid new costs, fragmentation, and infrastructure flight
On-Prem30 Jun 2025 | 32
Don't pay for AI support failures, says Gradient Labs CEO
interview Paying for successful problem resolution is a better business model, argues Dimitri Masin
AI + ML30 Jun 2025 | 13
AI agents get office tasks wrong around 70% of the time, and a lot of them aren't AI at all
Analysis More fiction than science
AI + ML29 Jun 2025 | 142
Anthropic chucks chump change at studies on job-killing tech
$61B business offers $10K–$50K grants to assess AI’s job-market impact
AI + ML27 Jun 2025 | 7
Fed chair Powell says AI is coming for your job
ai-pocalypse AI will make 'significant changes' to economy, labor market
AI + ML27 Jun 2025 | 13
The network is indeed trying to become the computer
Analysis Masked networking costs are coming to AI systems
Datacenter Networking Nexus27 Jun 2025 | 6
HPE customers on agentic AI: No, you go first
HPE Discover 2025 But like cloud computing and digital transformation, this may be a buzzword they can't ignore forever
AI + ML27 Jun 2025 | 5
More trouble for authors as Meta wins Llama drama AI scraping case
Updated Authors are having a hard time protecting their works from the maws of the LLM makers
AI + ML27 Jun 2025 | 20
The SmartNIC revolution fell flat, but AI might change that
Analysis The idea of handing off networking chores to DPUs persists even if it hasn't caught on beyond hyperscalers
Datacenter Networking Nexus26 Jun 2025 | 4
Gridlocked: AI's power needs could short-circuit US infrastructure
You are not prepared for 5 GW datacenters, Deloitte warns
On-Prem26 Jun 2025 | 55
Kaseya CEO: Why AI adoption is below industry expectations
Interview Business data is fragmented and change management is hard
AI + ML26 Jun 2025 | 61
Frozen foods supermarket chain deploys facial recognition tech
Privacy campaigner brands Iceland's use of 'Orwellian' camera tech 'chilling,' CEO responds: 'It'll cut violent crime'
Security26 Jun 2025 | 118
Top AI models - even American ones - parrot Chinese propaganda, report finds
Communist Party tracts in, Communist Party opinions out
AI + ML26 Jun 2025 | 31
Japanese company using mee-AI-ow to detect stressed cats
Rabo’s ‘Catlog’ smart collar sniffs for freaked-out felines, alerts owners with an app
AI + ML26 Jun 2025 | 23
Hyperscalers to eat 61% of global datacenter capacity by decade's end
Cloud and AI demand propel rapid buildout as on-prem share drops to 22%
On-Prem25 Jun 2025 |
CloudBees CEO says customers are slowing down on 'black box' code from AIs
interview Learning from the lessons of the past
Devops25 Jun 2025 | 11
Anthropic: All the major AI models will blackmail us if pushed hard enough
Just like people
AI + ML25 Jun 2025 | 37
Germany asks if US hyperscalers hold keys to AI kingdom
Competition authorities listen to concerns over barriers to entry and reliance on AWS, Google and Microsoft
AI + ML25 Jun 2025 | 9
HPE Aruba boasts that when network problems come along, its AI will whip them into shape
NetAdmins may be mere years away from devolving into babysitters for bots
Datacenter Networking Nexus25 Jun 2025 | 6
Anthropic won't fix a bug in its SQLite MCP server
Fork that - 5k+ times
AI + ML25 Jun 2025 | 17
Tesla Robotaxi videos show Elon's way behind Waymo
Video Musk promised a million auto-autos by 2020. He's delivered maybe 10
AI + ML24 Jun 2025 | 188
Just say no to NO FAKES Act, EFF argues
The problem is focusing on property rights rather than privacy
Legal24 Jun 2025 | 8
LLMs can hoover up data from books, judge rules
Anthropic scores a qualified victory in fair use case, but got slapped for using over 7 million pirated copies
AI + ML24 Jun 2025 | 63
HPE puts all its chips in the agentic AI pot
HPE Discover 2025 Another OEM has decided we're now in the agentic AI age
AI + ML24 Jun 2025 | 1
AI may be after your job, but this AI agent promises to help you get a new one
'Jobright Agent' can apply for jobs on your behalf
AI + ML24 Jun 2025 | 12
Datacenter market offers us captive customer base, say investors
AI boom sparks surge in bit barn funding as firms tout high barriers and sticky clients
On-Prem24 Jun 2025 | 2
Lenovo shows what a Chromebook packing a MediaTek Kompanio Ultra can do
Nothing startling, even with Google’s AI extras
Personal Tech24 Jun 2025 | 21
The one thing SME IT can do that the big guys can’t: Change the world
Opinion Not quite the answer to life, the universe and everything, but not far off
On-Prem23 Jun 2025 | 10
AI-hosted infomercial shifts $7.5 million worth of product in China
Asia In Brief PLUS: India tries to untangle TXT marketing opt-ins; China’s AI crackdown succeeds; Australia and Boeing team AWACS, drones; and more!
AI + ML23 Jun 2025 | 3
The AIpocalypse is here for websites as search referrals plunge
Turn out the lights, the internet is over
AI + ML22 Jun 2025 | 150
New GitHub Copilot limits push AI users to pricier tiers
Welcome to bill shock, AI style
Devops20 Jun 2025 | 39
Biting the hand that feeds IT
