Copilot invades Microsoft 365 Personal and Family for an extra three bucks a month
Many users less than impressed by unexpected arrival of AI assistant in Word
AI + ML17 Jan 2025 | 57
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Apple solves broken news alerts by turning off the AI
Summaries will return when Apple Intelligence has 'improved'
AI + ML17 Jan 2025 | 40
Brit government contractor CloudKubed enters administration
Home Office, Department for Work and Pensions supplier in hands of FRP Advisory
Public Sector17 Jan 2025 | 7
Microsoft eggheads say AI can never be made secure – after testing Redmond's own products
If you want a picture of the future, imagine your infosec team stamping on software forever
AI + ML17 Jan 2025 | 51
Just as your LLM once again goes off the rails, Cisco, Nvidia are at the door smiling
Some of you have apparently already botched chatbots or allowed ‘shadow AI’ to creep in
AI + ML17 Jan 2025 | 10
Google reports halving code migration time with AI help
Chocolate Factory slurps own dogfood, sheds drudgery in specific areas
AI + ML16 Jan 2025 | 13
AI datacenters putting zero emissions promises out of reach
Plus: Bit barns' demand for water, land, and power could breed 'growing opposition' from residents
On-Prem16 Jan 2025 | 66
US adds Chinese RISC-V player that TSMC suspected of helping build Huawei GPUs to risky company register
Sophgo scores a place on Entity List, Indian nuclear boffins taken off
Legal16 Jan 2025 | 4
Nvidia shovels $500M into Israeli boffinry supercomputer
System to feature hundreds of liquid-cooled Blackwell systems
HPC16 Jan 2025 | 22
Even modest makeup can thwart facial recognition
You may not need to go full Juggalo for the sake of privacy
AI + ML15 Jan 2025 | 46
'Savvy' shortcuts produce near-instant speech-to-speech translation of 36 languages
Babel Fish like ML model emerges after training on 4.5 million hours of multilingual spoken audio
AI + ML15 Jan 2025 | 28
Megan, AI recruiting agent, is on the job, giving bosses fewer reasons to hire in HR
Interview She doesn't feel pity, remorse, or fear, but she'll craft a polite email message as she turns you down
AI + ML15 Jan 2025 | 79
Enterprises in for a shock when they realize power and cooling demands of AI
Energy consumption set to become a key performance indicator by 2027
On-Prem15 Jan 2025 | 29
UK businesses eye AI as the cheaper, non-whining alternative to actual staff
Rising costs blamed, although any excuse to do more with less
AI + ML15 Jan 2025 | 127
Biden opens federal land to power-hungry AI datacenters
Watt's the problem? Not enough energy to win the arms race?
The Future of the Datacenter - 2025 and Beyond14 Jan 2025 | 6
Microsoft, PC makers cut prices of Copilot+ gear in Europe, analyst stats confirm
Double-digit reduction only served to 'stimulate some interest'
AI + ML14 Jan 2025 | 48
Snyk appears to deploy 'malicious' packages targeting Cursor for unknown reason
Updated Packages removed, vendor said to have apologized to AI code editor as onlookers say it could have been a test
Security14 Jan 2025 | 1
Europe hopes Trump trumps Biden's plan for US to play AI gatekeeper
Export controls would limit shipments of GPUs to large swaths of EU
AI + ML14 Jan 2025 | 76
HPE may have bagged $1B order from Elon Musk's X for AI servers
That's Cray cray
HPC14 Jan 2025 | 28
In AI agent push, Microsoft re-orgs to create 'CoreAI – Platform and Tools' team
Nad lad says 30 years of change happening in 3 years ... we're certainly feeling the compression of time
AI + ML13 Jan 2025 | 10
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Capital One two-day outage leaves customers in free-fall
Third-party supplier blamed as folks left unable to access funds
Microsoft eggheads say AI can never be made secure – after testing Redmond's own products
If you want a picture of the future, imagine your infosec team stamping on software forever
GM parks claims that driver location data was given to insurers, pushing up premiums
We'll defo ask for permission next time, automaker tells FTC
FCC to telcos: By law you must secure your networks from foreign spies. Get on it
Plus: Uncle Sam is cross with this one Chinese biz over Salt Typhoon mega-snooping
SpaceX resets ‘Days Since Starship Exploded’ counter to zero
Updated Test flight seven did better on the ground with a successful booster catch – as aircraft divert from falling debris
IBM swoops in to rescue UK Emergency Services Network after Motorola shown the door
With a near half-billion-pound price hike bringing contract value to £1.4B
Just as your LLM once again goes off the rails, Cisco, Nvidia are at the door smiling
Some of you have apparently already botched chatbots or allowed ‘shadow AI’ to creep in
Tech support fill-in given no budget, no help, no training, and no empathy for his plight
On Call Fixed the problem anyway – with no approval for a purchase and no permission to use a device
Biden signs sweeping cybersecurity order, just in time for Trump to gut it
Analysis Ransomware, AI, secure software, digital IDs – there's something for everyone in the presidential directive
Fortinet: FortiGate config leaks are genuine but misleading
Competition hots up with Ivanti over who can have the worst start to a year
STORIES
CoreWeave drops £1bn in UK datacenters – but don't expect the latest Nvidia magic just yet
Rent-a-GPU outfit's latest datacenters are packed to the brim with H200s
Systems13 Jan 2025 | 2
Nvidia snaps back at Biden's 'innovation-killing' AI chip export restrictions
'New rule threatens to squander America's hard-won technological advantage' says GPU supremo
Systems13 Jan 2025 | 23
UK unveils plans to mainline AI into the veins of the nation
Government adopts all 50 venture capitalist recommendations but leaves datacenter energy puzzle unsolved
AI + ML13 Jan 2025 | 104
UK prepared to throw planning rules out the window for massive datacenters
Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project designation could tear down more restrictions
On-Prem13 Jan 2025 | 85
Microsoft tests 45% M365 price hikes in Asia-Pacific to see how much you enjoy AI
Won’t say if other nations will be hit, but will ‘listen, learn, and improve’ as buyers react – so far with anger
SaaS13 Jan 2025 | 125
That subdued CES has us wondering what 2025 will look like, tech-wise
Kettle El Reg vultures circle the Consumer Electronics Show
Personal Tech12 Jan 2025 | 16
Hands-on jobs to grow fastest, because AI can't touch them
World Economic Forum finds huge demand for brainbox skills, news for how it changes your role
AI + ML10 Jan 2025 | 60
Court docs allege Meta trained its AI models on contentious trove of maybe-pirated content
Did Zuck’s definition of ‘free expression’ just get even broader?
Legal10 Jan 2025 | 26
Biden said to weigh global limits on AI exports in 11th-hour trade war blitz
updated China faces outright ban while others vie for Uncle Sam's favor
Public Sector09 Jan 2025 | 8
Trump China tariffs to 'overshadow' the 'progress' of AI PCs
Already inflated costs of NPU-based boxes set to jump on import tax
AI + ML09 Jan 2025 | 25
To save the energy grid from AI, use open source AI, says open source body
Linux Foundation Energy argues rapidly decentralizing electricity sector can't succeed with silos
AI + ML09 Jan 2025 | 5
We did warn you – 2025 may be the year AI bots take over Meta's 'verse
Opinion Can't grow any more? Let's just invent engagement!
Personal Tech08 Jan 2025 | 51
Amazon splashes $11B on AI datacenters in Georgia
Peach State already home to more than 50 bit barns
On-Prem08 Jan 2025 | 2
AI hype led to an enterprise datacenter spending binge in 2024 that won't last
GPUs and generative AI systems so hot right now... yet 'long-term trend remains,' says analyst
On-Prem08 Jan 2025 | 7
Google snags ex-Microsoft exec to helm cloud in the UK
Maureen Costello hopes to 'empower' businesses with AI
PaaS + IaaS08 Jan 2025 | 6
Honda upgrades robot brain into OS for future electric cars
Remember humanoid bot ‘Asimo’, which could kick balls and pour beer? It survives as EV software
AI + ML08 Jan 2025 | 9
Uncle Sam now targets six landlord giants in war on alleged algorithmic rent fixing
One of ya is gonna sing like a canary, prosecutors say
AI + ML08 Jan 2025 | 24
John Deere boasts driverless fleet - who needs operators, anyway?
CES Lots of new ways to cut labor costs, no mention of repairability
AI + ML07 Jan 2025 | 41
AI can improve on code it writes, but you have to know how to ask
LLMs do more for developers who already know what they're doing
Software07 Jan 2025 | 34
Apple shrugs off BBC complaint with promise to 'further clarify' AI content
It's down to users to do the fact-checking themselves
AI + ML07 Jan 2025 | 47
Can AWS really fix AI hallucination? We talk to head of Automated Reasoning Byron Cook
Interview Engineer who works on ways to prove that code is mathematically correct finds his field is suddenly much less obscure
AI + ML07 Jan 2025 | 84
Demand for AI servers sees Foxconn fly and suppliers come along for the ride
Record quarterly revenue at contract manufacturing giant suggests strong demand for hardware of all sorts
Systems07 Jan 2025 |
Nvidia shrinks Grace-Blackwell Superchip to power $3K mini PC
CES Tuned for running chunky models on the desktop with 128GB of RAM, custom Ubuntu
AI + ML07 Jan 2025 | 9
3Blue1Brown copyright takedown blunder by AI biz blamed on human error
Worker copy-pasted wrong YouTube URL, says ChainPatrol
AI + ML07 Jan 2025 | 56
Even at $200/mo, Altman admits ChatGPT Pro struggles to turn a profit
comment But don't worry, he's 'figured out' AGI
AI + ML06 Jan 2025 | 30
Microsoft declares 2025 'the year of the Windows 11 PC refresh'
CES Slumping market share, unwanted features ... no, it's the consumers who are wrong!
Software06 Jan 2025 | 174
AI spending spree continues as Microsoft commits $80B for 2025
With those whopping returns who could argue with the premis... oh wait
On-Prem06 Jan 2025 | 30
Looming energy crunch makes future uncertain for datacenters
But investors still betting big on bit barns thanks to AI and cloud demand
On-Prem06 Jan 2025 | 12
With datacenter power crisis looming, US government looks to Constellation
Not just AWS, Microsoft et al that are betting on nuclear energy, 13 federal agencies get in on act too
On-Prem03 Jan 2025 | 10
US logic in question, but perhaps American memory can still prevail
Comment With Intel's foundry future in doubt, Micron takes center stage in US Chips Act push
Storage03 Jan 2025 | 10
Apple auto-opts everyone into having their photos analyzed by AI for landmarks
Homomorphic-based Enhanced Visual Search is so privacy-preserving, iPhone giant activated it without asking
Personal Tech03 Jan 2025 | 69
Workday on lessons learned from Iowa and Maine project woes
Interview Nine in ten of our implementations are a success, CEO Carl Eschenbach tells The Reg
SaaS02 Jan 2025 | 11
Schneider Electric warns of future where datacenters eat the grid
Report charts four scenarios from 'Sustainable AI' to 'Who Turned Out The Lights?'
On-Prem02 Jan 2025 | 59
It's only a matter of time before LLMs jump start supply-chain attacks
Interview 'The greatest concern is with spear phishing and social engineering'
Security29 Dec 2024 | 58
OpenAI plans to ring in the New Year with a for-profit push
We have altered the deal, pray we don’t alter it any further
AI + ML27 Dec 2024 | 46
Are you better value for money than AI?
Comment Tech vendors start saying the quiet part out loud – do enterprises really need all that headcount?
AI + ML23 Dec 2024 | 102
Fining Big Tech isn't working. Make them give away illegally trained LLMs as public domain
Opinion It's all made from our data, anyway, so it should be ours to use as we want
AI + ML22 Dec 2024 | 142
Apple called on to ditch AI headline summaries after BBC debacle
'Facts can't be decided by a roll of the dice'
AI + ML20 Dec 2024 | 156
Infosec experts divided on AI's potential to assist red teams
CANALYS FORUMS APAC Yes, LLMs can do the heavy lifting. But good luck getting one to give evidence
Security20 Dec 2024 | 10
US bipartisan group publishes laundry list of AI policy requests
Chair Jay Obernolte urges Congress to act – whether it will is another matter
AI + ML19 Dec 2024 | 9
Humanoid robots coming soon, initially under remote control
Feature Dodgy AI chatbots as brains – what could go wrong?
AI + ML19 Dec 2024 | 93
Boffins trick AI model into giving up its secrets
All it took to make an Google Edge TPU give up model hyperparameters was specific hardware, a novel attack technique … and several days
Research18 Dec 2024 | 20
Nvidia upgrades tiny Jetson Orin Nano dev kits for the holidays
'Super' edition promises 67 TOPS and 102GB/s of memory bandwidth for your GenAI projects
Systems17 Dec 2024 | 14
SoftBank pledges to pour $100B into US, create 100,000 jobs in Trump's second term
Details? Who needs 'em! But AI seems a likely focus
AI + ML17 Dec 2024 | 50
Take a closer look at Nvidia's buy of Run.ai, European Commission told
Updated Campaign groups, non-profit orgs urge action to prevent GPU maker tightening grip on AI industry
Systems16 Dec 2024 | 3
$800 'AI' robot for kids bites the dust along with its maker
Comment - Updated Moxie maker Embodied is going under, teaching important lessons about cloud services
AI + ML16 Dec 2024 | 102
Infosys founder calls for 70-hour work week – again – claiming it creates jobs
Asia In Brief Plus: China wants to end AI mashups of classic vids; TSMC set to open Japan fab; and more
On-Prem16 Dec 2024 | 51
Cheat codes for LLM performance: An introduction to speculative decoding
Hands on Sometimes two models really are faster than one
AI + ML15 Dec 2024 | 39
Doing business in US? Don't wait for state ruling on AI to act, warns former Senate chief of staff
Workday policy expert suggests NIST framework will save you trouble later
AI + ML13 Dec 2024 | 4
American cops are using AI to draft police reports, and the ACLU isn't happy
Comment Do we really need to explain why this is a problem?
AI + ML12 Dec 2024 | 67
Cruise shutdown blastzone increases – Microsoft takes $800M charge
General Motors pulling the plug on autonomous taxi biz hits Redmond in the wallet
AI + ML12 Dec 2024 | 20
Apple reportedly building AI server processor with help from Broadcom
Something called 'Baltra' expected to make its debut in 2026, perhaps with tech both already use
Systems12 Dec 2024 | 10
Google Gemini 2.0 Flash comes out with real-time conversation, image analysis
Chocolate Factory's latest multimodal model aims to power more trusted AI agents
AI + ML11 Dec 2024 | 25
Microsoft hijacks keyboard shortcut to bring Copilot to your attention
AI assistant goes native – sort of – for Windows Insiders
AI + ML11 Dec 2024 | 108
Cruise robotaxis parked forever, as GM decides it can't compete and wants to cut costs
Pictures The Register stumbles upon the place self-driving cabs appear to be rusting away into history
AI + ML11 Dec 2024 | 63
OpenAI's Sora lets ChatGPT subscribers churn out janky text-generated videos
Buckle up, because limbed creatures are about to get weird
AI + ML10 Dec 2024 | 16
Open source maintainers are drowning in junk bug reports written by AI
Python security developer-in-residence decries use of bots that 'cannot understand code'
Devops10 Dec 2024 | 91
Reddit rolls out AI-powered 'Answers' search feature, redditors don't rejoice
Many users unhappy with current state of search, want to know why this got priority
AI + ML09 Dec 2024 | 22
Microsoft rolls out Recall for Intel, AMD-based Copilot+ PCs
More Windows Insiders get to see if the snapshotter is fixed
AI + ML09 Dec 2024 | 25
We can't make this stuff up: Palantir, Anduril form fellowship for AI adventures
Meanwhile, Sauron secures funding. Really
AI + ML09 Dec 2024 | 38
China launches AI that writes politically correct docs for bureaucrats
Asia In Brief PLUS: Politician thought Korea's martial law declaration was a deepfake; Apple finds a billion for Indonesia; China worries about open source intel; and more
AI + ML09 Dec 2024 | 9
You're so bad at recycling, this biz built an AI to handle it for you
Maybe start getting better at sorting your trash before these ML garbage bots gain sentience?
Bootnotes08 Dec 2024 | 43
Microsoft teases Copilot Vision, the AI sidekick that judges your tabs
Edge-exclusive tool promises 'second set of eyes' for browsing
Personal Tech07 Dec 2024 | 39
OpenAI to charge $200 per month for ChatGPT Pro
How much AI does one subscriber need?
AI + ML06 Dec 2024 | 36
AI and analytics converge in new generation Amazon SageMaker
re:Invent Calling everything SageMaker is confusing – but a new name would have been worse says AWS
AI + ML06 Dec 2024 | 1
Day after nuclear power vow, Meta announces largest-ever datacenter powered by fossil fuels
Louisiana facility's three natural gas turbine plants to churn out 2,262 MW
On-Prem05 Dec 2024 | 41
Altman to Musk: Don't go full supervillain – that's so un-American
OpenAI chief says he doesn't think Elon will unleash political powers to zap AI competition
AI + ML05 Dec 2024 | 51
Canada commits $1.4B to sovereign compute infrastructure as it joins the AI arms race
Project includes hundreds of millions of loonies for a national supercomputing facility
AI + ML05 Dec 2024 | 11
Wish there was a benchmark for ML safety? Allow us to AILuminate you...
Very much a 1.0 – but it's a solid start
AI + ML05 Dec 2024 | 13
Google DeepMind touts AI model for 'better' global weather forecasting
Bases predictions on historical data, instead of solving physics equations
AI + ML05 Dec 2024 | 39
Fission impossible? Meta wants up to 4GW of American atomic power for AI
Facebook titan targets early 2030s for reactor deployment
Off-Prem04 Dec 2024 | 26
Musk and Trump to fall out in 2025, predicts analyst
Canalys Forums APAC Differing China tech policy agendas will send bromance into 'it's complicated' status
AI + ML04 Dec 2024 | 170
RISC-V's AI champion just scored $693M cash infusion
Architecture may be good for more than cut-rate SoCs and high-volume microcontrollers after all
AI + ML04 Dec 2024 | 5
AWS says AI could disrupt everything – and hopes it will do just that to Windows
re:Invent Cloud colossus reckons it can clarify hallucinations, get your apps off Microsoft's OS at pleasing speed
AI + ML04 Dec 2024 | 36
Amazon promises 4x faster AI silicon in 2025, turns Trainium2 loose on the net
Re:Invent Tens of thousands of AWS’ Trn2 instances to fuel Anthropic's next-gen models
Systems03 Dec 2024 | 5
Are Copilot+ PCs really the fastest Windows PCs? X and Copilot don't think so
Opinion Microsoft marketing skewered by X platform users... and its own chatbot
AI + ML03 Dec 2024 | 34
GitHub's boast that Copilot produces high-quality code challenged
We're shocked – shocked – that Microsoft's study of its own tools might not be super-rigorous
AI + ML03 Dec 2024 | 58
OpenAI denies it is building ad biz model into its platform
Chief financial officer admits 'we're open to exploring other revenue streams in the future'
AI + ML02 Dec 2024 | 11
Musk seeks injunction to stop OpenAI morphing into for-profit company
Politics, electric cars, rockets, and social media not enough to keep some individuals busy
AI + ML02 Dec 2024 | 17
Claims of 'open' AIs are often open lies, research argues
'When policy is being shaped, definitions matter'
AI + ML02 Dec 2024 | 10
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