Anthropic tries 'to enable beneficial uses' of AI by government agencies
Not keen on smart weapons, more interested in stopping human trafficking
AI + ML27 Jun 2024 | 3
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Reddit hopes robots.txt tweak will do the trick in scaring off AI training data scrapers
Pay up or go away, pretty please?
AI + ML27 Jun 2024 | 20
Alibaba Cloud reveals its datacenter design, homebrew network used for LLM training
Exclusive 15,000 GPUs per DC, in hosts packing eight apiece, plus nine NICs – helped by switches with custom heat sinks
Systems27 Jun 2024 | 2
Etched looks to challenge Nvidia with an ASIC purpose-built for transformer models
Startup says Sohu chip will be 20x faster than Nvidia's H100 in Llama 70B … assuming it's actually built
AI + ML26 Jun 2024 | 6
Want to save the planet from AI? Chuck in an FPGA and ditch the matrix
Watts down, doc: Boffins find machine learning models can function with more modest power requirements
AI + ML26 Jun 2024 | 30
Stability AI stabilized by investment from Silicon Valley royalty, new executive team
Text-to-image AI outfit can now buy time to build products and profit
AI + ML26 Jun 2024 | 1
OpenAI to pull plug on 'unsupported' nations – cough, China – from July 9
It’s not entirely clear what actions the ChatGPT maker plans to take, if any
AI + ML25 Jun 2024 | 7
Nvidia loses a cool $500B as market questions AI boom
Cisco was briefly the world's most valuable company too, you know, just before the dot com bust
AI + ML25 Jun 2024 | 19
On-prem AI has arrived – the solution to cloudy problems no one really has
HPE discover Which isn't to say Nvidia and hyperscalers will win, says analyst Steve Brazier, as regulators circle
On-Prem25 Jun 2024 | 3
GenAI dominates the narrative in ERP, but what is it good for?
Low-code and report production vie for early use cases, but risks remain
AI + ML25 Jun 2024 | 7
Ooredoo to splash Nvidia GPUs across the Middle East
Qatari telco reckons deal will give it an 18–24 month lead in region
AI + ML25 Jun 2024 |
Alibaba Cloud unleashes thousands of Chinese AI models to the world
Like Bedrock or Azure OpenAI Studio – but with the added fun of geopolitical risk
Off-Prem25 Jun 2024 |
Record labels gang up to sue AI music generator duo into utter oblivion
Updated Recording Industry Ass. of America orchestrates war on Udio and Suno
AI + ML24 Jun 2024 | 49
Ollama drama as 'easy-to-exploit' critical flaw found in open source AI server
About a thousand vulnerable instances still exposed online, we're told
Patches24 Jun 2024 | 8
Y Combinator, startups funnily enough aren't fans of draft California AI safety law
Same old whinging: We can't change the world if you ask us to do it openly
AI + ML24 Jun 2024 | 17
Samsung teases investment to get into the GPU game
Analysis A head-on assault on Nvidia seems unlikely – but dumping AMD from Exynos has merit
AI + ML24 Jun 2024 | 7
SoftBank boss says 'artificial superintelligence' could be three years away
Asia In Brief Plus: Huawei closer to divorcing Android; India probes Amazon warehouses; Singapore gets autonomous street sweepers
AI + ML24 Jun 2024 | 31
Bake an LLM with custom prompts into your app? Sure! Here's how to get started
Hands on In Rust, we trust. But in gen-AI to not hallucinate? Eh, that's another story
AI + ML22 Jun 2024 | 5
Apple Intelligence won't be available in Europe because Tim's terrified of watchdogs
These privacy rules might harm privacy! No, really, that's totally why we're doing this
AI + ML21 Jun 2024 | 65
Meta warns bit flips, other hardware faults cause AI errors
It's no hallucination: '4 in 1,000 inferences inaccurate' due to this alone, depending on the setup
AI + ML21 Jun 2024 | 39
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If you're using Polyfill.io code on your site – like 100,000+ are – remove it immediately
Scripts turn malicious, infects webpages after mysterious CDN swallows domain
Microsoft blamed for million-plus patient record theft at US hospital giant
Updated Probe: Worker at speech-recog outfit Nuance wasn't locked out after firing
British Airways blames T5 luggage chaos on fault 'outside of our control'
Exclusive It was Vodafone, basically
Julian Assange pleads guilty, leaves courtroom a free man
Now, about that bill for the private jet that's taking him home to Australia …
Microsoft makes it harder to avoid OneDrive during new Windows 11 installs
Hey, OneDrive! Leave my files alone
Organized crime and domestic violence perps are big buyers of tracking devices
Australian study finds GPS trackers – and sometimes AirTags – are in demand for the wrong reasons
Resource burden of electric vehicles set to triple by 2050
Experts say 'circular economy strategies' could keep demand at 2015 levels
Microsoft founder Paul Allen's tech museum closes, sells off collection
Letter from Einstein, vintage space suit, and ancient computers all up for sale
Apple tells emulator developers it's OK with retro games – not entire OSes
Updated We sure hope this won't upset European regulators given how great their relationship is with Apple right now
Hong Kong's Furi Labs shakes up smartphone scene with dash of Debian
DEVCONF.CZ The FLX1 runs its own build of 'Trixie' but has an Android layer
STORIES
Anthropic delivers Claude 3.5 model – and a new way to work with chatbots
Video Fast, funny, visionary, sure ... anything that knocks OpenAI down a peg will do
AI + ML20 Jun 2024 | 11
Musk ropes Dell, Supermicro into xAI supercomputer project
Oh, Mike, what have you got yourself into now
HPC20 Jun 2024 | 11
Study employs large language models to sniff out their own bloopers
What if it's LLMs all the way down?
AI + ML20 Jun 2024 | 24
Using AI to guide tomorrow’s England stars to greater glory
The English FA is using Google Cloud AI to gain insights from scouting reports to nurture star footballers of the future
Sponsored Post
AI-assisted automation for clouds and networks climbs Gartner's hype cycles
Yes, AI will volunteer to run your IT estate. You might be a fool to trust it
AI + ML20 Jun 2024 | 2
OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever's new startup aims to create 'safe superintelligence'
He's in competition with – and critical of – his former workplace
AI + ML20 Jun 2024 | 27
GenAI more buzz than biz as tech barely dents jobs, says survey
Don't believe the hype
AI + ML19 Jun 2024 | 8
GPU-accelerated VMs on Proxmox, XCP-ng? Here's what you need to know
Hands on Go ahead, toss that old gaming card in your box and boost your AI applications — you know you want to
AI + ML19 Jun 2024 | 14
Self-driving cars safer in sunlight, twilight another story
YMMV
AI + ML19 Jun 2024 | 75
World's top AI chatbots have no problem parroting Russian disinformation
Study finds they're taking Putin pushers' point of view 30% of the time
AI + ML19 Jun 2024 | 68
Google DeepMind's latest model promises realistic audio for your AI-generated vids
Video Launch comes as Runway, Pika, Kling push the boundaries of machine-imagined video
AI + ML18 Jun 2024 | 2
HPE, Nvidia team up to offer 'turnkey' private cloud racks for keeping AI loads local
HPE Discover Everyone wants to be best buddies with Jensen Huang's GPU juggernaut
AI + ML18 Jun 2024 | 1
IMF suggests tax on AI's CO2 emissions, but not AI itself
Be afraid … be very afraid: AI could also revolutionize tax itself, money boffins argue
Public Sector18 Jun 2024 | 14
Tencent ponders banning infomercials hosted by 'virtual humans' on its flagship video service
Beijing's interest in generative AI has its limits
AI + ML18 Jun 2024 |
McDonald's not lovin' its AI drive-thru experiment with IBM
Automated voice ordering still on the menu for the future, though
AI + ML17 Jun 2024 | 50
Can platform-wide AI ever fit into enterprise security?
Opinion You know what they say about headlines that end in a question mark
AI + ML17 Jun 2024 | 7
From RAGs to riches: A practical guide to making your local AI chatbot smarter
Hands on Nine out of 10 execs recommend adding Retrieval Augmented Generation to your daily regimen
AI + ML15 Jun 2024 | 23
Meta won't train AI on Euro posts after all, as watchdogs put their paws down
Facebook parent calls step forward for privacy a 'step backwards'
AI + ML14 Jun 2024 | 41
Microsoft cancels universal Recall release in favor of Windows Insider preview
Wider release coming real soon – promise – after the Windows faithful give it a thrashing
OSes14 Jun 2024 | 52
US senators propose guardrails for government AI purchases and operations
Bill proposes appointment of chief AI officers, privacy safeguards, and lots of testing
Public Sector13 Jun 2024 | 2
VMware revenue plunges $600M, but Broadcom assures investors growth plan is on track
Costs cut deeply, with more to come, and forward bookings surge
Virtualization13 Jun 2024 | 16
Waymo issues software fix after driverless taxi hits telephone pole
NHTSA already probing robo-car biz over crashes with 'clearly visible objects'
AI + ML12 Jun 2024 | 27
No, an AI bot isn't running for mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming
But candidate Victor Miller tells The Reg he'll use machine learning to help govern
AI + ML12 Jun 2024 | 10
Payoff from AI projects is 'dismal', biz leaders complain
No wonder most orgs are slowing their spending
AI + ML12 Jun 2024 | 127
AMD's DC chief happy to work with Intel and others to chip away at Nvidia's AI empire
'If everybody's got their own little ecosystem, it's very inefficient'
Systems12 Jun 2024 | 3
Mistral AI raises $644M, hits $6.2B in valuation
French firm has nearly tripled in value since beginning of the year
AI + ML12 Jun 2024 | 2
Microsoft's Recall should be celebrated as the savior of SMEs and scourge of CEOs
Column Small businesses have seldom had the chance to understand how they work. A history of PC use makes it possible
AI + ML12 Jun 2024 | 145
UAE minister says US fears over Middle East becoming an AI proxy for China are valid
But we're America's friends, insists Omar Al Olama
AI + ML12 Jun 2024 | 3
Elon Musk ends OpenAI lawsuit without explaining why
Court docs suggest this matter could have run for years
Legal12 Jun 2024 | 22
Brazil recruits OpenAI in brave bid to slash court battle costs
Bills from legal fights reach 1% of GDP. Hallucination rate no doubt higher
AI + ML11 Jun 2024 | 5
Microsoft sends Copilot Pro's GPT Builder to the digital dumpster
Updated Farewell, we hardly scripted thee
AI + ML11 Jun 2024 | 7
Musk wants to ban Apple at his companies for cosying up to OpenAI
Comment Concerned about secrecy... or just mad no one's buying his AI tech?
AI + ML11 Jun 2024 | 56
AI PC vendors gotta have their TOPS – but is this just the GHz wars all over again?
Comment As usual, things are more complicated than 'bigger number better.'
AI + ML11 Jun 2024 | 18
Using AI to spot young football talent
How The FA uses Google Cloud AI to identify future England football stars
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Apple built custom servers and OS for its AI cloud
WWDC Mashup of iOS and macOS runs on homebrew silicon, with precious little for sysadmins to scry
Off-Prem11 Jun 2024 | 12
At Apple, AI stands for 'Apple Intelligence' – and it's coming to everything
WWDC Cupertino promises private smarts, on-device or in the cloud
AI + ML10 Jun 2024 | 53
Meta will use your social media posts to train its AI. Europe gets an opt out
What's German for 'thank goodness for actually useful privacy regulations'?
AI + ML10 Jun 2024 | 22
Euro banks worry AI will increase their dependence on US big tech
Putting such a dominant power in the middle of your supply chain a risky move...
AI + ML10 Jun 2024 | 11
OpenAI to buy electricity from CEO Sam Altman's nuclear fusion side hustle
Knowing your supplier is always good – and super lab's auditors promise to check for conflicts of interest
AI + ML06 Jun 2024 | 52
Memphis to host 'Gigafactory of Compute' thanks to xAI and Elon Musk's billions
City known for blues, BBQ, and now possibly the 'world's largest supercomputer'
AI + ML06 Jun 2024 | 6
DuckDuckGo AI Chat promises privacy for bot conversations
There's also an off switch
AI + ML06 Jun 2024 | 16
Adobe users just now getting upset over content scanning allowance in Terms of Use
Updated Update that triggered web rage didn't really change much – Photoshop slinger has always been able to scan your stuff
AI + ML06 Jun 2024 | 54
Meta faces multiple complaints in Europe over plans to train AI on user data
Opt out, if you can, or prepare for your posts to be ingested
AI + ML06 Jun 2024 | 57
Dominant AI players Nvidia, Microsoft, OpenAI face US antitrust inquiries
Hmm... world's most valuable companies furthest ahead with world's most coveted tech. WCGW?
AI + ML06 Jun 2024 | 2
AI PCs might solve a real problem: The 'friction' that sees users ignore security
Computex Trend Micro says cloudy email scans trigger GDPR warnings that deter users. Local models that use NPUs don't
AI + ML06 Jun 2024 | 17
Wi-Fi can watch your heart beating, Taiwan’s datacenter power outfit Delta finds
Computex May come in handy for healthcare orgs, or to turn you off private 5G
Networks06 Jun 2024 | 10
Elon Musk confirms 12K H100s ordered for Tesla were instead prioritized for xAI
Comment Tycoon's private firms got Nvidia GPUs first because automaker couldn’t use them yet
AI + ML05 Jun 2024 | 21
To solve AI's energy crisis, 'rethink the entire stack from electrons to algorithms,' says Stanford prof
Think biologically not digitally to go from megawatts to watts, HAI gathering told
AI + ML05 Jun 2024 | 8
OpenAI insiders demand the right to blow whistle without fear of retaliation
'Current and former employees should retain their freedom to report their concerns to the public' open letter says
AI + ML05 Jun 2024 | 5
HPE Q2 sales rise was brought to you by the letters A and I
Shipments of servers used for artificial intelligence jump more than 100% to $900M, share price up double digits
AI + ML05 Jun 2024 |
Tackling potty-mouth chatbots to leaky LLMs. What's life like in Microsoft's AI red team?
Interview Group founder reveals all to The Reg
AI + ML05 Jun 2024 | 3
Airbus shows off uncrewed AI-powered Wingman for fighter pilots
Updated I feel the need, the need for ... a Euro-made military drone
AI + ML05 Jun 2024 | 27
The definition of an AI PC is now even muddier, helping no-one – not even AIs
Computex Analysis Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger wants benchmarks to go beyond TOPS but warns we’re in for months of uncertainty
Personal Tech05 Jun 2024 | 9
All the datacenter roadmap updates Intel, AMD, Nvidia teased at Computex
Computex We sifted through hours of presentations so you don't have to
Systems05 Jun 2024 |
'Building AI co-workers going to be largest opportunity of tech in our lifetime'
Or so this Thomson Reuters bot boss claims
AI + ML04 Jun 2024 | 32
Millions forced to use brain as OpenAI's ChatGPT takes morning off
Updated Bots just as likely to fall over as everything else in the cloud
AI + ML04 Jun 2024 | 34
Checkmate? AI's pawn-pushing prowess proves partly pitiful, partly promising
GPT-4o is far better than other models, but still made illegal moves 13% of the time
AI + ML04 Jun 2024 | 32
Fired-up Pat Gelsinger shoots from the lip at Qualcomm and Nvidia
Computex Intel boss reveals first 18A silicon will run next week as he undercuts H100s on price and dismisses X Elite metrics
Systems04 Jun 2024 | 2
Raspberry Pi unveils Hailo-powered AI Kit to make the model 5 smarter
13 TOPS for $70 has PiBoss Eben Upton predicting an ML explosion
Systems04 Jun 2024 | 31
ASUS creates a substance: Ceraluminum, which fuses aluminum and a ceramic
Computex Not unobtanium or vaporwareum, as it's coming soon to a 16-inch Zenbook lappie
Personal Tech04 Jun 2024 | 51
Meta algorithms push Black people more toward expensive universities, study finds
Special report Just as we saw with housing, Facebook giant's advertising system seems to treat Whites and POC differently
AI + ML04 Jun 2024 | 44
Qualcomm wants to target all ‘all form factors’ with SoCs that power Copilot+ PCs
Computex As Arm CEO declares his architecture is now the de facto Windows standard
Personal Tech03 Jun 2024 | 4
Researchers warn robot cars can be crashed with tinfoil and paint daubed on cardboard
Use Baidu's platform to show how the fusion of Lidar, radar, and cameras can be fooled by stuff from your kids' craft box
Research03 Jun 2024 | 34
Stable Diffusion 3 to debut on June 12
Computex CTO likes what he sees, but craves more memory and compute
AI + ML03 Jun 2024 | 10
We're the Ryzen force in CPUs for AI PCs: AMD
Computex Arm, schmarm: New 50TOPS NPUs that talk Block FP16 really make AI sing, says CEO Lisa Su
Systems03 Jun 2024 |
AMD reveals the MI325X, a 288GB AI accelerator built to battle Nvidia's H200
Computex House of Zen hopes to catch its AI rival by moving to a yearly release cadence
Systems03 Jun 2024 | 1
Do you really need that GPU or NPU for your AI apps?
Kettle And how do we feel about Palantir selling its ML-based targeting system to the entire US military? Tune in!
AI + ML01 Jun 2024 | 8
Google finally addresses those bizarre AI search results
Suggesting people eat rocks or put glue on pizza? Yeah, that's some artificial intelligence right there
Personal Tech31 May 2024 | 86
OpenAI is very smug after thwarting five ineffective AI covert influence ops
That said, use of generative ML to sway public opinion may not always be weak sauce
AI + ML30 May 2024 | 11
California's Governor Newsom is worried AI will be smothered in regulation
OTOH, 'If we chase a shiny object, we could put ourselves in a perilous position'
AI + ML30 May 2024 | 17
Palantir bags $480M from Pentagon to inject battlefield AI into the entire military
Uncle Sam wants Maven Smart System to be in use across DoD by 2029
Public Sector30 May 2024 | 12
AI future: Nvidia boffin hopes 'everything that moves will eventually be autonomous'
Video Welcome to the 'agentic' era
AI + ML30 May 2024 | 17
Arm is so, so over this AI accelerator unit craze
Analysis As it offers 3nm shake-and-bake Cortex-X925, A725 processor designs for phones, PCs
AI + ML30 May 2024 | 6
AI chip sales predicted to jump by a third this year – then cool off
Gartner gives us a ray of hope amid ongoing hype and pressure to buy more hardware
AI + ML29 May 2024 | 1
Ex-OpenAI board member accuses Sam Altman of 'outright lying'
Claims she and other members 'learned about ChatGPT on Twitter'
AI + ML29 May 2024 | 20
Don't fall for the bring-your-own-AI trap
Bring-your-own-AI by any other name is shadow AI, and unsanctioned AI poses risks to your business
Commissioned
LLMs can write and answer quizzes – but aren't quite ready to disrupt trivia night
Feed AutoQuizzer a URL and it will use LLaMa-3 to make a decent multiple-choice test
AI + ML29 May 2024 | 10
Using AI in science can add to reproducibility woes, say boffins
Royal Society warns black box models, a lack of documentation, and limited access to computing hamper efforts to understand results
AI + ML29 May 2024 | 9
MIT professor hoses down predictions AI will put a rocket under the economy
It's easier to foresee growing inequality than surging growth
AI + ML29 May 2024 | 38
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries bets big on small turbines for datacenters
Another endorsement for the theory that on-prem power generation trumps tapping the grid
Off-Prem29 May 2024 | 41
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