OpenAI says Chinese gang tried to phish its staff Claims its models aren't making threat actors more sophisticated - but is helping debug their code Cybersecurity Month10 Oct 2024 | 3
Nobel Chemistry Prize goes to AlphaFold, Rosetta creators - another win for AI Let’s just hope they don’t give the literature award to a bot, too Science09 Oct 2024 | 5
Copilot's crudeness has left Microsoft chasing Google, again Opinion Surely Redmond knows that almost nobody has tamed unstructured data? AI + ML09 Oct 2024 | 24
Supermicro crams 18 GPUs into a 3U AI server that's a little slow by design Can handle edge inferencing or run a 64 display command center Systems09 Oct 2024 | 2
OpenAI appoints international expansion boss Picks Singapore as APAC hub and outlines desire to get governments onside AI + ML09 Oct 2024 | 4
LinkedIn: If our AI gets something wrong, that's your problem Artificial intelligence still no substitute for the real thing AI + ML09 Oct 2024 | 21
Incumbent congressman not turning up to debates? Train an AI on his press releases Hallucinations, made-up facts... and that's just the human politicians AI + ML08 Oct 2024 | 9
Netizens are torturing Google's AI podcast hosts NotebookLM's Audio Overview feature rudely discovers its wife never existed AI + ML08 Oct 2024 | 11
Eric Schmidt: Build more AI datacenters, we aren't going to 'hit climate goals anyway' Perhaps the power-draining tech is the solution after all, posits former Google CEO AI + ML08 Oct 2024 | 70
AI-driven e-commerce fraud is surging, but you can fight back with more AI Juniper Research argues the only way to beat them is to join them AI + ML08 Oct 2024 | 6
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A year after taking on Intel's NUC mini-PCs, Asus says it's ready to improve them AI is showing the way to new possibilities after a tricky first year Personal Tech08 Oct 2024 | 37
China reportedly tells local AI buyers to ignore Nvidia In Brief Plus: Google, Oracle, spend $9.5 billion on Asia datacenters; Philippines to tax clouds; Vietnam infosec praised; and more AI + ML08 Oct 2024 | 3
Inflection AI Enterprise offering ditches Nvidia GPUs for Intel's Gaudi 3 Struggling chipmaker scores another win Systems07 Oct 2024 | 2
Cops love facial recognition, and withholding info on its use from the courts Withholding exculpatory evidence from suspects isn't a great look when the tech is already questionable Security07 Oct 2024 | 21
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Meta gives Llama 3 vision, now if only it had a brain Hands on El Reg gets its claws in multimodal models - and shows you how to use them and what they can do AI + ML06 Oct 2024 | 33
Google expands visual, audio search, lets AI handle layout AI Overviews get links to referenced websites – and ads AI + ML03 Oct 2024 | 3
Starlink was offered for free to those hit by Hurricane Helene. It is not entirely free Updated And now SpaceX clarifies special promotion
Missing Thunderbirds footage found in British garden shed Video 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, new Supermarionation is GO!
National Public Data files for bankruptcy, admits 'hundreds of millions' potentially affected One-man-band faces a mountain of lawsuits but has few assets
Using iPhone Mirroring at work? You might have just overshared to your boss What does IT glimpse but a dating app on your wee little screen
Copilot's crudeness has left Microsoft chasing Google, again Opinion Surely Redmond knows that almost nobody has tamed unstructured data?
Microsoft issues 117 patches – some for flaws already under attack Patch Tuesday Plus: SAP re-patches a failed patch for critical-rated flaw
Smart TVs are spying on everyone Regulators know this is a nightmare and have done little to stop it. Privacy advocacy group wants that to change
CIQ takes Rocky Linux corporate with $25K price tag Backs RHEL-compatible distro with indemnification and update guarantees
Qualcomm urges device makers to push patches after 'targeted' exploitation Given Amnesty's involvement, it's a safe bet spyware is in play
Bitcoin creator suspect says he is not Bitcoin creator suspect 'If I was Satoshi I would have destroyed my ability to prove I'm Satoshi'
‘Undigestible rate of change’ sees vendor supergroup create ‘The Open Compute of AI’ It’s called ‘Cosmos’ and Nvidia, Cisco, X, SuperMicro and VAST Data all think it will help – them and you AI + ML03 Oct 2024 | 3
Another OpenAI founder moves to arch-rival Anthropic Just two of the gang of eleven remain as safety concerns swirl AI + ML02 Oct 2024 | 21
Tesla trounces shareholders who alleged Autopilot was all share-pumping lies It's easy being Elon AI + ML02 Oct 2024 | 38
AI agent promotes itself to sysadmin, trashes boot sequence Fun experiment, but yeah, don't pipe an LLM raw into /bin/bash AI + ML02 Oct 2024 | 94
China trains 100-billion-parameter AI model on home grown infrastructure Research institute seems to have found Huawei to do it – perhaps with Arm cores - despite sanctions AI + ML02 Oct 2024 | 15
Cruise fined $1.5M for failing to report right away its robo-car dragged a pedestrian Code-controlled taxi biz tiptoes back with supervised driving in Phoenix and Dallas AI + ML01 Oct 2024 | 12
Watch your mirrors: Tesla Cybertrucks have 'Full' 'Self Driving' now As eggheads reckon Musk-mobiles need human interventions every 13 miles AI + ML30 Sep 2024 | 100
California governor vetoes controversial AI safety law, tells everyone to start over Newsom doesn't want Golden State to lose its golden goose AI + ML30 Sep 2024 | 14
Anthropic's UK revenue not enough to stop $4B Amazon union, says watchdog Tie-up between AI toolmaker and Bezos biz doesn't qualify for merger partnership probe AI + ML30 Sep 2024 | 5
Raspberry Pi AI Camera takes inferencing load off the CPU HANDS ON Autofocus would have been nice, though AI + ML30 Sep 2024 | 25
Kamala Harris campaign motorcade halted by confused robotaxis Is this AI showing the would-be leader of the free world who's really the boss? AI + ML30 Sep 2024 | 105
AI code helpers just can't stop inventing package names LLMs are helpful, but don't use them for anything important AI + ML30 Sep 2024 | 64
Recall the Recall recall? Microsoft thinks it can make that Windows feature palatable AI screengrab service to be opt-in, features encryption, biometrics, enclaves, more OSes27 Sep 2024 | 119
OpenAI reportedly considering for-profit plans, but what would that be good for? Opinion Even investors might not get much out of it AI + ML27 Sep 2024 | 25
Data harvesting superapp admits it struggled to wield data – until it built an LLM Engineers at Grab don't need to ask each other questions any more AI + ML27 Sep 2024 | 9
FTC sues five AI outfits – and one case in particular raises questions From allegations of lying about capabilities to fake reviews. Plus: Biden AI robocaller finally fined $6M AI + ML26 Sep 2024 | 16
Patch now: Critical Nvidia bug allows container escape, complete host takeover 33% of cloud environments using the toolkit impacted, we're told Patches26 Sep 2024 | 16
OpenAI in throes of executive exodus as three walk at once Looks like it's going to be the Sam Altman show from now on AI + ML26 Sep 2024 | 27
Uncle Sam accuses Aussie AI startup boss of financial fakery that duped investors Crikey! $40M of investments in 'digital employees' allegedly went down faster than a frosty Fosters Legal26 Sep 2024 | 14
OpenAI to reveal secret training data in copyright case – for lawyers' eyes only Counsel for aggrieved authors will view info in a secure room, without internet access, and no devices present AI + ML26 Sep 2024 | 16
If your AI does the crime, you'll do the time, warns DoJ Add compliance requirements to your AI to-do list AI + ML25 Sep 2024 | 31
Altman reportedly asks Biden to back a slew of multi-gigawatt-scale AI datacenters With 2.5 million Blackwell GPUs, would gobble enough energy to power millions of homes Systems25 Sep 2024 | 26
US Army drafts AI to combat recruitment shortfall No more cold calls: Recruit 360 pinpoints top prospects from millions AI + ML25 Sep 2024 | 15
Apple ropes off at least 4 GB of iPhone storage to house AI Better or worse than a surprise U2 album? AI + ML25 Sep 2024 | 37
AI PCs will dominate shipments by 2026, but not because of demand Buying computers without the tech to get harder as chipmakers compete for cash, say analysts AI + ML25 Sep 2024 | 33
NASA, IBM just open sourced an AI climate model so you can fine-tune your own Prithvi, Prithvi, Prithvi good Science25 Sep 2024 | 23
AI chatbot gets green light to hallucinate your investment portfolio Service due to roll out later this month, despite fears AI will crash the market AI + ML25 Sep 2024 | 18
As IBM pushes for more automation, its AI simply not up to the job of replacing staff So say our sources, who warn job cuts, outsourcing risk depriving biz of seasoned technical talent Off-Prem24 Sep 2024 | 53
Cloudflare tightens screws on site-gobbling AI bots When robots.txt just ain't cutting the mustard AI + ML24 Sep 2024 | 13
Alibaba Cloud claims its modular datacenter architecture shrinks build times by 50 percent Also reveals boosted utilization rates, upgraded IaaS and more – all in the name of AI apps Off-Prem20 Sep 2024 | 4
Dutch watchdog wants more powers after EU drops Microsoft Inflection probe Concerns over the elimination of a future competitor through acquihiring AI + ML19 Sep 2024 | 1
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SiFive expands from RISC-V cores for AI chips to designing its own full-fat accelerator Seems someone's looking for an Arm wrestle AI + ML19 Sep 2024 | 4
LinkedIn started harvesting people's posts for training AI without asking for opt-in Updated Opt out if you don't like it – EU and a few others, including now the UK, excepted AI + ML19 Sep 2024 | 89
California governor goes on AI law signing spree, but demurs on the big one Newsom still worried about SB 1047's 'chilling effect' on AI industry tax dollar revenue innovation in the state AI + ML18 Sep 2024 | 16
Microsoft, BlackRock form fund to sink up to $100B into AI infrastructure Tech is going to need datacenters and power sources, and a lot of 'em AI + ML18 Sep 2024 | 6
No major AI model is safe, but some do better than others Feature Anthropic Claude 3.5 shines in Chatterbox Labs safety test AI + ML17 Sep 2024 | 14
S&P 500's AI FOMO fizzles: Less than half mentioned it in Q2 earnings Is the hype over already? AI + ML17 Sep 2024 | 3
Ellison declares Oracle all-in on AI mass surveillance, says it'll keep everyone in line Cops to citizens will be 'on their best behavior because we're constantly recording and reporting' AI + ML16 Sep 2024 | 52
Microsoft's Copilot 'Wave 2' is a tsunami of unanswered questions updated What the next few months hold for the productivity chatbot AI + ML16 Sep 2024 | 37
China wants red flags on all AI-generated content posted online Visible and audible warnings, plus metadata, with absence of info considered suspicious Public Sector16 Sep 2024 | 19
Begun, the open source AI wars have Opinion This is going to be ugly. Really ugly AI + ML14 Sep 2024 | 47
Meta back at it, harvesting Britons' public Facebook, Insta feeds for AI training I wanna know 🎵 What you're feeling 🎵 Tell me what's on your mind Personal Tech14 Sep 2024 | 33
AI giants pinky swear (again) not to help make deepfake smut Oh look, another voluntary, non-binding agreement to do better AI + ML13 Sep 2024 | 17
MongoDB CEO says if AI hype were the dotcom boom, it is 1996 Analysis NoSQL database slinger attempts to reassure investors, kinda AI + ML13 Sep 2024 | 27
OpenAI's latest o1 model family tries to emulate 'reasoning' – tho might overthink things a bit 'Chain of thought' techniques mean latest LLM 'better' at stepping through complex challenges AI + ML13 Sep 2024 | 71
Google sued for using trademarked Gemini name for AI service Even the chatbot allegedly admits to infringement claim AI + ML12 Sep 2024 | 14
Domo arigato, Mr Roboto: Japan's bullet trains to ditch drivers The Shinkansen have operated without fatalities for sixty years – how hard can it be? AI + ML12 Sep 2024 | 125
Nvidia CEO to nervous buyers and investors: Chill out, Blackwell production is heating up AI ROI? Jensen Huang claims infra providers make $5 for every dollar spent on GPUs Systems12 Sep 2024 | 8
AI has colonized our world – so it's time to learn the language of our new overlords Column Brush up on your ‘Delvish’ – the lingo that flatters LLMs into a sort of submission AI + ML11 Sep 2024 | 61
As major web browser makers snuggle up to AI, these skeptical holdouts remain Chatbots, generative models 'in many ways the next step in the surveillance economy' AI + ML10 Sep 2024 | 50
SambaNova makes Llama gallop in inference cloud debut AI infra startup serves up Llama 3.1 405B at 100+ tokens per second Systems10 Sep 2024 | 4
UK Lords push bill to tame rogue algorithms in public sector Peer says government needs to learn lessons from Post Office scandal AI + ML10 Sep 2024 | 17
We're in the brute force phase of AI – once it ends, demand for GPUs will too Gartner thinks generative AI is right for only five percent of workloads AI + ML10 Sep 2024 | 65
US sets reporting requirements for AI models, infrastructure operators Washington wants to know what the biggest model-makers are up to AI + ML10 Sep 2024 | 1
GenAI hype meets harsh reality as enterprises wrestle with business case Nvidia, Equinix clearly making a killing over costs, confusion, and cold feet AI + ML09 Sep 2024 | 17
Microsoft exec warns of business functions being sacrificed on the altar of AI Too many IT modernization projects? Not enough budget? Something will have to give AI + ML09 Sep 2024 | 24
MI6, CIA using generative AI to combat tech-driven enemies Spy bosses use first-ever joint article to bemoan how Russia and China use tech to mess with the world AI + ML09 Sep 2024 | 55
AI bills can blow out by 1000 percent: Gartner Preventing that is doable, but managing what happens when AI upsets people is hard AI + ML09 Sep 2024 | 29
Xockets rockets Nvidia: Blackwell debut threatened by DPU patent claims GPU giant accused of colluding with Microsoft, RPX to sideline startup Systems08 Sep 2024 | 11
What do Uber drivers make of Waymo? 'We are cooked' Feature Robotaxis, low pay may be end of the road for app cabbies in San Francisco AI + ML07 Sep 2024 | 159
Defense AI models 'a risk to life' alleges spurned tech firm In-depth Chatterbox Labs CEO claims Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office unfairly cancelled a contract then accused him of blackmail AI + ML06 Sep 2024 | 8
VMware revenue bounces for Broadcom, chips were a little undercooked CEO says market for non-AI silicon has bottomed out Virtualization06 Sep 2024 | 7
Nvidia and chums inject $160M into Applied Digital to keep GPU sales rolling Datacenters are the lifeline for its $30B ML-fueled boom PaaS + IaaS06 Sep 2024 | 5
AI-pushing Adobe says AI-shy office workers will love AI if it saves them time knowledge workers, overwhelmed by knowledge tasks? We know what you need AI + ML05 Sep 2024 | 32
Global powers sign AI pact promising to preserve human rights, democracy No, Russia and China are not on the list AI + ML05 Sep 2024 | 12
OpenAI co-founder's Safe Superintelligence startup inhales $1B in funding No product? No problem! AI + ML05 Sep 2024 | 24
Amazon congratulates itself for AI code that mostly works Web services souk celebrates 'leader' designation for Q Developer AI + ML05 Sep 2024 | 10
If every PC is going to be an AI PC, they better be as good at all the things trad PCs can do Comment Microsoft's Copilot+ machines suck at one of computing's oldest use cases Channel05 Sep 2024 | 151
AI's thirst for water is alarming, but may solve itself Comment Its energy addiction, on the other hand, only seems to get worse AI + ML05 Sep 2024 | 62
Copilot for Microsoft 365 might boost productivity if you survive the compliance minefield Loads of governance issues to worry about, and the chance it might spout utter garbage AI + ML04 Sep 2024 | 25
'Error' causes Alexa to endorse Kamala Harris, refuse to discuss Trump Bot shouldn't have political opinions, says Amazon Software04 Sep 2024 | 67
Microsoft's Inflection acquihire is too small to matter, say UK regulators Deal can't lessen competition if AI minnow wasn't much of a competitor AI + ML04 Sep 2024 |
GenAI spending bubble? Definitely 'maybe' says ServiceNow It won't generate hundreds of million of dollars for customers tomorrow, and there's a 'lot of noise' from tech industry AI + ML04 Sep 2024 | 34
OpenAI allegedly wants TSMC 1.6nm for in-house AI chip debut Another job for Broadcom, then AI + ML04 Sep 2024 | 5
DoJ reportedly advances Nvidia antitrust probe Updated Uncle Sam apparently worried GPU giant may be punishing customers who shop around AI + ML04 Sep 2024 | 5
Intel's 120 TOPS Lunar Lake AI PC chips have landed And all it took was some good old fashioned outsourcing to TSMC AI + ML03 Sep 2024 | 13
Data watchdog fines Clearview AI $33M for 'illegal' data collection Selfie-scraper again claims European law does not apply to it AI + ML03 Sep 2024 | 14
AI firms propose 'personhood credentials' … to fight AI It's going to take more than CAPTCHA to prove you're real AI + ML03 Sep 2024 | 55
Alibaba Cloud boosts failure prediction with logfile timestamps Machine learning helps, but more data catches more faults - so Chinese champ has shared its data Devops03 Sep 2024 | 2