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Look, Ma: No human! Boffins turn on Tesla Autopilot with string, a weight, a seat belt, then watch go for a spin

Rivals auto-autos snap photos to ensure an actual human is behind the wheel

What links AMD CPU guru Jim Keller, an AI chip upstart, and SiFive? This vector-crunching 64-bit RISC-V processor

Stressing the ex in x86

US Army develops natural-language voice-command AI for robots, tanks, etc. For search'n'rescue. For now

Judge, JUDI, and executioner?

21 Apr 01:14 | 31

'There was no one driving that vehicle': Texas cops suspect Autopilot involved after two men killed in Tesla crash

Model S took corner at high speed, left road, and smashed into a tree

19 Apr 21:30 | 126

Truth and consequences for enterprise AI as EU know who goes legal: GDPR of everything from chatbots to machine learning

Regulations On A European Approach For Artificial Intelligence

19 Apr 08:30 | 13

Seeing a robot dog tagging along with NYPD officers after an arrest stuns New Yorkers

Plus: 'First civil lawsuit' against police for incorrect facial recognition match in wrongful collaring, and more

17 Apr 15:05 | 72

A keyboard? How quaint: Logitech and Baidu link arms to make an AI-enabled, voice-transcribing mouse

Dictates 3 languages, translates into 6, available only in China

14 Apr 14:56 | 30

US Homeland Security sued for 'stonewalling' over use of Clearview facial recognition

Potential surveillance nightmare could be unfolding in secret, civil-rights warriors fear

14 Apr 12:15 | 13

Neural networks give astronomers huge boost in identifying galaxies: 27 million done, 600 million to come

AI algorithms in large-scale astronomy are mandatory, study says

14 Apr 07:27 | 21

Microsoft digs deep for chatty AI specialist Nuance, bids $19.7bn to bolster healthcare chops

Hello? Is this thing on?

12 Apr 18:58 | 6

Nvidia shrinks GPUs to help squeeze AI into your data center, make its VMware friendship work

Creates two new mini models because it’s assumed you won’t build silos to host huge hot monsters

Clearview AI accused over free trials to US police that were plausibly deniable

Plus: Another Google AI boffin resigns and AI tries to recreate music from famous musicians who died at 27

12 Apr 12:03 | 7

Twitter nukes AI-generated twits who backed Amazon and pushed anti-union rhetoric

Plus: Waymo CEO is standing down, Volvo is partnering with a self-driving startup to stay relevant

06 Apr 06:33 | 20

Turns out humans are leading AI systems astray because we can't agree on labeling

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Asking for a friend's machine-learning code

01 Apr 21:04 | 114

While truly self-driving cars are surely just around the corner, for now here's an AI early-warning system for your semi-autonomous ride

Hey, we heard you like machine learning. So we put a machine-learning system in your machine-learning system

01 Apr 14:21 | 43

Pentagon pal Microsoft to supply US Army with 120,000+ HoloLens units in contract somehow worth 'up to $22bn'

Gives Blue Screen of Death a whole new meaning

31 Mar 22:48 | 22

AI recommendations fail fans who like hard rock and hip hop – official science

Welcome to the new bland

31 Mar 11:04 | 42

How are GPUs going to change your working world? It’s AI, everywhere

Join Lenovo at Nvidia's GTC '21 and accelerate your learning

Arm pulls the sheets off its latest Armv9 architecture with added AI support, Realms software isolation

CEO reckons this tech will be used in 300 billion chips

30 Mar 18:00 | 8

Under threat of judicial review, UK.gov agrees to consultation before extending Palantir's NHS role beyond pandemic

A small victory, but campaigners say they will be keeping a close eye

30 Mar 14:00 | 17

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University duo thought it would be cool to sneak bad code into Linux as an experiment. Of course, it absolutely backfired

'Our community does not appreciate being experimented on' says Kroah-Hartman

China has a satellite with an arm – and America worries it could be used to snatch other spacecraft

Send more money to help us protect our space toys, military tells Congress

Microsoft revokes MVP status of developer who tweeted complaint about request to promote SQL-on-Azure

Programme members were asked to make noise ahead of Amazon Web Services conference

Ah, you know what? Keep your crappy space station, we're gonna try to make our own, Russia tells world

Come 2025, we're Putin this collaboration to bed

Not saying you should but we're told it's possible to land serverless app a '$40k/month bill using a 1,000-node botnet'

CompSci trio describe theoretical Denial-of-Wallet attack

UK.gov wants mobile makers to declare death dates for their new devices from launch

IoT security plan suddenly thrusts into the mainstream

Signal app's Moxie says it's possible to sabotage Cellebrite's phone-probing tools with booby-trapped file

More a declaration of war than turning the tables

Lego's Space Shuttle Discovery: No trouble with Hubble, but the stickers will drive a grown man to insanity

The Reg once again shoves its talons into bags of spiky bricks for latest website-breaking set

But can it run Avid? The Reg hands shiny new M1 MacBook to video production pro, who beats it with Bender, Handbrake, and ... Hypercard?

He was there the day Steve Jobs moved off PowerPC to Intel, and says the Arm transition looks better

Someone has to pay to keep the lights so data-viz outfit Grafana switches licence regime to AGPLv3

AWS dodges the finger of blame as another open-sourcer tightens things up

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You put Marmite where? Google unveils its latest AI wizardry: A cake made of Maltesers and the pungent black tar

Two ingredients that don't really go together. Like, er, AI and Ethics?

30 Mar 13:15 | 89

Google's AI ethics firings garner more trouble – $60,000 Chocolate Factory boffin grant turned down over issue

Plus: Amazon delivery drivers forced to consent to being surveilled by AI

29 Mar 13:16 | 6

Semi-autonomous cars sales move up a gear with 3.5 million units leaving forecourts

Will you visit me please, if I open my door... in cars?

26 Mar 19:27 | 33

What links ML, lasers, and tiny gold-plated micro-bots? Answer: Smart medicines

'Drug delivery would certainly be an intriguing application,' prof tells us

26 Mar 07:06 | 8

How will AI, intelligent cloud and green power shape your post-COVID transformation?

Dive into Huawei’s Industrial Digital Transformation Conference right here to find out

US military employs neural networks to figure out interference in photons for quantum communications

Green Machine gets busy on photons

25 Mar 14:01 | 8

Vietnam pursues ten-year AI plan, aspires to crack world’s top 50 for R&D by 2030

Ministries all given goals to infuse AI into operations, some in somewhat startling ways

24 Mar 04:58 | 8

Machine learning devs, rejoice: You can now rent up to 16 Nvidia A100 GPUs on a single machine via Google

Plus: Young female Japanese biker turns out to be boring 50-year-old uncle

22 Mar 11:46 | 10

What happens when your massive text-generating neural net starts spitting out people's phone numbers? If you're OpenAI, you create a filter

How to curb GPT-3's tongue

18 Mar 18:07 | 37

In the lab: Robotic AI-powered exoskeletons to help disabled people move freely without implants

With kill switches to stop the gear going off the rails

18 Mar 06:33 | 15

ICYMI: A mom is accused of harassing daughter's cheerleader rivals with humiliating deepfake vids

Awesome, oh wow, like totally freak me out ... with this unexpected use of AI

16 Mar 23:06 | 18

How Facebook uses public videos to train, deploy machine-learning models and harvest those eyeballs

Plus: Google Ethical AI team firings backlash worsens

13 Mar 09:41 | 28

ServiceNow bakes more ML, low code into Quebec release to push itself as all-encompassing workflow layer

But questions remain over its enterprise app credentials

11 Mar 18:57 | 7

FYI: A smart-speaker box can monitor your heartbeat using high-pitch beeps and a pinch of algorithm – study

Alexa, am I having a heart attack?

10 Mar 13:17 | 14

Surprise: Automated driving biz finds automated driving safer than letting you get behind the wheel

Waymo recreated 72 fatal crashes and it turns out its simulated AI driver isn't a careless, distracted jerk

10 Mar 07:29 | 106

Cortana smokes Invoke: Redmond's chatty assistant bails from the only smart speaker it called home

Windows giant's withdrawal leaves market to Amazon, Apple, Google

09 Mar 23:10 | 8

Microsoft rolls out mask detection to Azure Cognitive Services. And yes, there is a noseAndMouthCovered attribute

For those who find wearing the things so damn difficult

09 Mar 18:00 | 6

Deploy AI workloads with confidence using OpenVINO

Write once, deploy anywhere

Google's ex-boss tells the US it's time to take the gloves off on autonomous weapons

Plus: AI Index 2021 report takeaways, Chocolate Factory banished from top ethics conference, and more

08 Mar 15:30 | 40

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