Grok-1 chatbot code released – open source or open Pandora's box? What hasn't been released by Elon Musk's xAI is also of note AI + ML18 Mar 2024 | 7
Investment advisors pay the price for selling what looked a lot like AI fairy tales SEC bags $400K in settlements AI + ML18 Mar 2024 | 6
Sorry, Siri: Apple may be eyeing Google Gemini for future iPhones Famous for keeping everything in-house, Apple may be carving AI-shaped door in its garden wall AI + ML18 Mar 2024 | 18
Microsoft promises Copilot will be a 'moneymaker' in the long term Exec tells investors to 'temper' expectations as mission to convince customers of price tag continues AI + ML18 Mar 2024 | 43
India quickly unwinds requirement for government approval of AIs Asia in brief Also: US woos Thailand, Philippines, for tech trade; China's Fukushima rage glows; Alibaba targets South Korea AI + ML18 Mar 2024 | 2
How to run an LLM on your PC, not in the cloud, in less than 10 minutes Hands On Cut through the hype, keep your data private, find out what all the fuss is about Systems17 Mar 2024 | 60
In the rush to build AI apps, please, please don't leave security behind Feature Supply-chain attacks are definitely possible and could lead to data theft, system hijacking, and more AI + ML17 Mar 2024 | 17
Microsoft says AI alliances are needed to compete with Google Only the Chocolate Factory is 'vertically integrated' to win at 'every AI layer from chips to a thriving mobile app store' AI + ML15 Mar 2024 | 6
Alibaba pits people against AI in its annual mathematics competition Thankfully the prizes for human winners are far higher than those for machines AI + ML15 Mar 2024 |
Oracle adds GenAI to Fusion with a whopping 50 use cases But is there one that can sort out failing ERP projects? Well Larry, is there? AI + ML14 Mar 2024 | 2
AI and wearables are scaring the wellbeing out of workers We thought everyone was thrilled about being spied on and having their jobs taken by bots AI + ML14 Mar 2024 | 21
South Korea goes out on a limb to manage forests with AI, satellites Plans to digitally transform trees Public Sector14 Mar 2024 | 1
Leaked docs hint Google may use SiFive RISC-V cores in next-gen TPUs Opinion Would put those AI accelerators out of Arm's reach, at least AI + ML13 Mar 2024 | 8
From quantum AI to photonics, what OpenAI’s latest hire tells us about its future Analysis What's good for quantum optimization could help make models leaner Systems13 Mar 2024 | 10
European Union lawmakers line up to defend world's first AI Act Rules were not bent for Big Tech, politicians say AI + ML13 Mar 2024 | 10
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
Generative AI and the wizardry of the wide-open ecosystem Organizations struggling to launch generative AI initiatives have magic tricks at their disposal Commissioned
Whizkids jimmy OpenAI, Google's closed models Infosec folk aren’t thrilled that if you poke APIs enough, you learn AI's secrets AI + ML13 Mar 2024 | 42
Your PC can probably run inferencing just fine – so it's already an AI PC Opinion Language models are entirely happy on the desktop Personal Tech13 Mar 2024 | 37
Google searches for boss to get grip on climate, energy costs of this AI hype cycle Hyperscalers increasingly looking over shoulders as workloads grow AI + ML12 Mar 2024 | 3
How to run an LLM on your PC, not in the cloud, in less than 10 minutes Hands On Cut through the hype, keep your data private, find out what all the fuss is about
TrueNAS CORE 13 is the end of the FreeBSD version Debian-based TrueNAS SCALE is the future primary focus
Filipino police free hundreds of slaves toiling in romance scam operation 875 workers liberated after falling for promises of lucrative work, nine arrested
Yes, I did just crash that critical app. And you should thank me for having done so Who, Me? Quick thinking turned poor judgement into genius proactivity
In the rush to build AI apps, please, please don't leave security behind Feature Supply-chain attacks are definitely possible and could lead to data theft, system hijacking, and more
Microsoft promises Copilot will be a 'moneymaker' in the long term Exec tells investors to 'temper' expectations as mission to convince customers of price tag continues
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 with Eye-of-Sauron camera Wherever you go, whatever you do, your phone is watching
Infosec teams must be allowed to fail, argues Gartner But failing to recover from incidents is unforgivable because 'adrenalin does not scale'
India quickly unwinds requirement for government approval of AIs Asia in brief Also: US woos Thailand, Philippines, for tech trade; China's Fukushima rage glows; Alibaba targets South Korea
ChatGPT side-channel attack has easy fix: Token obfuscation Infosec in brief Also: Roblox-themed infostealer on the prowl, telco insider pleads guilty to swapping SIMs, and some crit vulns
We asked Intel to define 'AI PC'. Its reply: 'Anything with our latest CPUs' If it has a GPU and NPU, plus VNNI and DP4a instructions, it qualifies. But it's not a brand like vPro or Ultrabook Personal Tech12 Mar 2024 | 26
Microsoft calls AI privacy complaint 'doomsday hyperbole' Plaintiffs seek termination of permissionless and unpaid AI data harvesting Legal12 Mar 2024 | 31
Reader Poll: It’s IT Jim, but not as we know it Give us your insight into the challenges of AI adoption and implementation Reader Poll
Singapore's central bank warns AI isn't ready to handle monetary policy LLMs show promise, but are 'not yet capable of providing credible explanations for their own predictions' AI + ML12 Mar 2024 | 9
GPT-4 won't run Doom but will play the game poorly Should we worry this model is happy to grab a gun and start blasting? AI + ML11 Mar 2024 | 21
Filing NeMo: Nvidia's AI framework hit with copyright lawsuit Claims allegedly pirated content from Books3 dataset trawled by its models AI + ML11 Mar 2024 | 8
AI models show racial bias based on written dialect, researchers find Those using African American vernacular more likely to be sentenced to death, if LLMs were asked to decide AI + ML11 Mar 2024 | 72
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is back on the company's board, along with three new members AI in brief PLUS: Microsoft bars prompts to make Copilot less violent and NSFW AI + ML11 Mar 2024 | 8
You got legal trouble? Better call SauLM-7B Cooked in a math lab, here's an open source LLM that knows the law AI + ML09 Mar 2024 | 27
Biden's State of the Union included a battle cry against AI mimicry Lots of pats on the back for the CHIPS Act too AI + ML09 Mar 2024 | 16
Nano a nono: Pixel 8 phones too dumb for Google's smallest Gemini AI model Some might say a blessing in disguise Personal Tech08 Mar 2024 | 12
Palantir wins US Army contract for battlefield AI US spy-tech firm at center of UK health data systems applies its technology to altogether different ends AI + ML08 Mar 2024 | 19
Age of AI - large models call for better database choice AI, Pangu Models, automation pervade across Huawei’s cloud database, infrastructure, services Partner Content
AI mishaps are surging – and now they're being tracked like software bugs Interview The Register speaks to the folks behind the AI Incident Database AI + ML08 Mar 2024 | 8
India plans 10,000-GPU sovereign AI supercomputer Puts $1.2 billion on the table for AI skills and local LLMs, tells private enterprise it expects help Public Sector08 Mar 2024 | 5
Reddit rolling out AI bouncer to halt harassment If any mods are considering an anti-IPO blackout, you could be replaced by a bot AI + ML07 Mar 2024 | 13
Reminder: Infostealer malware is coming for your ChatGPT credentials Singaporean researchers note rising presence of OpenAI logins in infostealer malware logs Security07 Mar 2024 | 14
Desktop GPU shipments jumped by a third – no thanks to AI PCs Prices stabilized, so buyers opened their wallets AI + ML06 Mar 2024 | 6
Copilot can't stop emitting violent, sexual images, says Microsoft whistleblower Updated AI tech loves picturing women in underwear, Windows giant won't do anything about it, watchdog told AI + ML06 Mar 2024 | 92
Governments not keen on pushing citizen-facing AI services, for obvious reasons As soon as public sector implements GenAI, someone will do their best to break it... or even flirt with it AI + ML06 Mar 2024 | 4
OpenAI goes public with Musk emails, claiming he backed for-profit plans Be careful what you write in that message AI + ML06 Mar 2024 | 22
China pushes 'AI Plus' initiative to integrate technology and industry Beijing used a similar moniker for program that arguably gave us TikTok, Tencent, and Xiaomi Public Sector06 Mar 2024 | 5
Trump supporters forge AI deepfakes to woo Black voters Perps argue that if you vote based on one fake pic you get what you deserve AI + ML05 Mar 2024 | 40
AMD hires former Oak Ridge chief to punt AI to governments You get a 'sovereign' AI, and you get a 'sovereign' AI, everybody gets a 'sovereign' AI AI + ML05 Mar 2024 | 1
Microsoft: Copyright law didn't stop the VCR and shouldn't stop the LLM Updated Lawyers argue content used to train LLMs does not 'supplant the market' for news AI + ML05 Mar 2024 | 38
Dell exec reveals Nvidia has a 1,000-watt GPU in the works Hot and hungry, yet direct liquid cooling may not be required On-Prem05 Mar 2024 | 19
AMD may have failed to dumb down its chips enough to allow China sales Washington reportedly decided chipmaker hadn’t done too little Public Sector05 Mar 2024 | 9
Anthropic unlocks Claude 3, claims it's better than ChatGPT and Gemini Boasts of 'near-human levels of comprehension and fluency' AI + ML05 Mar 2024 | 28
Cruise's valuation halved after its driverless car hit and dragged a woman AI in brief Plus: Google CEO admits company got it wrong when it built 'too-woke' AI, and more AI + ML04 Mar 2024 | 27
India demands beta AIs secure government permission before going public Not compulsory for now, but IT minister says that's coming after Google's Gemini said the quiet part out loud AI + ML04 Mar 2024 | 2
Musk joins OpenAI lawsuit queue, says there's nothing 'open' about it GPT-4 has already reached AGI, and Microsoft shouldn't get its paws on it, court docs allege AI + ML01 Mar 2024 | 36
Stack Overflow to charge LLM developers for access to its coding content No more freebies – Google signs up to improve Gemini's programming abilities AI + ML01 Mar 2024 | 13
AI to fix UK Civil Service's bureaucratic bungling, deputy PM bets 'Computer-says-no' to be replaced by summaries written by LLMs trained on government data Public Sector01 Mar 2024 | 55
HPE blames GPU shortage for contributing to unexpected sales slide Even when Nvidia delivers, customers struggle to get datacenters ready to handle the heat On-Prem01 Mar 2024 | 4
The Who’s Who of AI just chipped in to fund humanoid robot startup Figure $675 million to accelerate development of machine that can lift, but can’t keep up with humans AI + ML29 Feb 2024 | 15
Baidu admits it may never get leading-edge GPUs again Execs swear Chinese cloud will beat local rivals with a superior software stack that makes AI sing AI + ML29 Feb 2024 | 2
OpenAI sued, again, for scraping and replicating news stories The Intercept, Raw Story, AlterNet want damages and to have their content removed from models AI + ML29 Feb 2024 | 17
BEAST AI needs just a minute of GPU time to make an LLM fly off the rails Talk about gone in 60 seconds AI + ML28 Feb 2024 | 10
Europe probes Microsoft's €15M stake in AI upstart Mistral Cash-for-Azure-access deal went through just as latest LLM landed AI + ML28 Feb 2024 | 3
Nvidia lures senior autonomous car developer from China's Baidu Jensen Huang's automotive engineering team has now pinched two significant Middle Kingdom talents AI + ML28 Feb 2024 | 7
Google wants regulators to take Microsoft down a notch before it stifles AI Updated Ad giant that owns over 80 percent of search traffic yells at cloud monopoly AI + ML28 Feb 2024 | 27
OpenAI claims New York Times paid someone to 'hack' ChatGPT Super lab alleges 'deceptive prompts' that it happily processed - and may have tracked - weren't fair, so case should be dismissed AI + ML28 Feb 2024 | 26
Apple's Titan(ic) iCar project is dead as self-driving dream fails to materialize Cruise is parked, Waymo is in trouble, Tesla's never quite nailed auto-autos so is China in the no-driver's seat? AI + ML27 Feb 2024 | 91
US military pulls the trigger, uses AI to target air strikes People still make the final decision, but recent raids in Iraq and Syria had help AI + ML27 Feb 2024 | 25
Today in tech layoffs: Sony Interactive and Expedia Game over for 900 staff as PlayStation London office and more shuttered CxO27 Feb 2024 | 9
What is GitHub Copilot Enterprise? You and your org just might find out firsthand Big biz invited to like and subscribe, without fear of litigation Devops27 Feb 2024 | 5
Boffins caution against allowing robots to run on AI models Before building the Torment Nexus, consider the risks AI + ML27 Feb 2024 | 9
Developing AI workloads is complex. Deciding where to run them might be easier How Digital Realty is powering AI in the UK Sponsored Feature
Meta to build election operations center in Europe to inspect AI content Fact-checkers will label AI-generated media for upcoming EU elections AI + ML27 Feb 2024 | 40
Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be coders, Jensen Huang warns Maker of ML accelerators wants more people to use ML AI + ML27 Feb 2024 | 131
'How do I reset my router' isn't in LLM corpuses. An alliance of telcos wants to change that Customer service data from five top telcos across Asia, Europe, and UAE will feed a carrier-centric multi-lingual chatbots AI + ML27 Feb 2024 | 14
Google to reboot Gemini image gen in a few weeks after that anti-White race row While you wait, Android devices will start to use gen AI to do stuff like summarize group chats AI + ML27 Feb 2024 | 51
Man admits to paying magician $150 to create anti-Biden robocall Steve Kramer claims the whole thing was a ruse to regulate AI in politics AI + ML26 Feb 2024 | 20
Dell promises 'every PC is going to be an AI PC' whether you like it or not Windows 11 didn't kickstart a refresh cycle so here's another excuse AI + ML26 Feb 2024 | 76
Lenovo debuts AI PCs that have specs a lot like vanilla PCs with this year's accelerated CPUs While you ponder that, look – or try to – at a concept transparent lappie Personal Tech26 Feb 2024 | 16
It's crazy but it's true: Apple rejected Bing for wrong answers about Annie Lennox Cupertino only wanted to be with Google for search – despite the prospect of buying Bing outright Personal Tech26 Feb 2024 | 60
Gen AI and cloud optimization help Asian SuperApp Grab turn a profit Headcount down 18 percent as content creation time shrinks from 99 hours to 90 minutes Off-Prem26 Feb 2024 | 3
Microsoft trying to stop Copilot generating fake Putin comments on Navalny's death AI in brief Plus: US Department of Justice has hired its first chief AI officer AI + ML26 Feb 2024 | 51
Judge slaps down law firm using ChatGPT to justify six-figure trial fee Use of AI to calculate legal bill 'utterly and unusually unpersuasive' AI + ML24 Feb 2024 | 86
AI comes for jobs at studio of American filmmaker Tyler Perry $800M expansion canceled after a mere glimpse at the power of Sora AI + ML23 Feb 2024 | 24
Microsoft adds more AI to Photos in Windows 10 and 11 Windows 10 users would probably prefer longer support instead of prettier pics AI + ML23 Feb 2024 | 28
Are you ready to back up your AI chatbot's promises? You'd better be Opinion Air Canada discovered the hard way that when your ML model makes a commitment, your biz will be on the hook for it AI + ML23 Feb 2024 | 79
Google sends Gemini AI back to engineering to adjust its White balance Comment Big Tech keeps poisoning the well without facing any consequences for its folly AI + ML23 Feb 2024 | 50
Reddit signs AI training deal with Google – and why OpenAI's Altman could be the winner IPO docs drop showing just who has a stake in the forum AI + ML22 Feb 2024 | 5
AI is going to need a global investment, just maybe not $7T, says OpenAI CEO Sam Altman FDC Maker of sometimes less than accurate AI chatbot reminds everyone not to believe everything you read on the net AI + ML22 Feb 2024 | 8
Prompt engineering is a task best left to AI models Machine-learning boffins find open source neural nets can optimize their own queries AI + ML22 Feb 2024 | 16
Nvidia revenue grows 265 percent with more to come as new GPUs and Ethernet near Jensen Huang defends colossal GPU purchases made by hyperscalers, claims they're 'fairly allocated' Systems22 Feb 2024 | 3
Pentagon enlists Scale AI to help military get smarter This technology is all the rage right now, still too risky for armed forces AI + ML21 Feb 2024 | 2
ChatGPT starts spouting nonsense in 'unexpected responses' shocker Updated Skips the 'intelligence' part of generative AI AI + ML21 Feb 2024 | 96
Reported $60M Reddit deal signed to train AI models with user data Training machine learning on Redditors' musings - what could go wrong? AI + ML20 Feb 2024 | 14
Generative AI designs: subscribe your way to faster ROI How validated reference designs delivered via subscriptions can help organizations build their GenAI services Commissioned
Going with the flow makes AI better at solving coding problems Interview Careful prompting can beat training a model from scratch AI + ML19 Feb 2024 | 4
OpenAI tries to trademark 'GPT'. US patent office says nope AI in brief Plus: How you can set up your own AI chatbot on your device, and more AI + ML19 Feb 2024 | 17
British businesses told: Compliance with EU AI law will satisfy UK guidance Keep calm and innovate or regulate before it's too late? AI + ML19 Feb 2024 | 50
Google debuts first Android 15 developer preview without a single mention of AI Expect it to be stable in June, ready for release sometime after July OSes19 Feb 2024 | 10
Days after half a billion Asians went to the polls, Big Tech promises to counter 2024 election misinformation Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and pals promise they'll try very hard to keep AI nasties off the 'net AI + ML19 Feb 2024 | 12
How to weaponize LLMs to auto-hijack websites We speak to professor who with colleagues tooled up OpenAI's GPT-4 and other neural nets Research17 Feb 2024 | 24
Google open sources file-identifying Magika AI for malware hunters and others Cool, but it's 2024 – needs more hype, hand wringing, and flashy staged demos to be proper ML CSO17 Feb 2024 | 10
FTC asks normal folks if they'd like AI impersonation scam protection, too Fakers face the wrath of Khan AI + ML16 Feb 2024 | 22
Dems are at it again, trying to break open black-box algorithms Opening up code used in criminal prosecutions for scrutiny? But where's the text-to-vid hype and doomsaying? AI + ML16 Feb 2024 | 42