What's up with Alphabet and Microsoft lately? Profits, sales – and AI costs If ML proves an expensive habit in future, these money printers won't have much to worry about ... probably AI + ML26 Apr 2024 |
Cops cuff man for allegedly framing colleague with AI-generated hate speech clip Athletics boss accused of deep-faking Baltimore school principal Cyber-crime25 Apr 2024 | 4
Meta's value plummets as Zuckerberg admits AI needs more time and money Revenues up, but is the AI hype bubble is threatening to burst? AI + ML25 Apr 2024 | 22
Microsoft and Amazon's AI ambitions spark regulatory rumble Tech giants confident everything's in order AI + ML25 Apr 2024 | 2
Forget the AI doom and hype, let's make computers useful Systems Approach Machine learning has its place, just not in ways that suits today's hypesters Software25 Apr 2024 | 19
With Run:ai acquisition, Nvidia aims to manage your AI kubes Now Jensen has a control plane to play with his army of NIMs AI + ML24 Apr 2024 |
Apple releases OpenELM, a slightly more accurate LLM It's not the fastest machine learning model, but you can't have everything AI + ML24 Apr 2024 | 9
Law prof predicts generative AI will die at the hands of watchdogs Video Big tech backlash and animus against the machines will invite stifling red tape AI + ML24 Apr 2024 | 20
China's mega-telcos are spending billions on AI servers China Mobile alone wants almost 8,000 machines Systems24 Apr 2024 | 8
Waymo robotaxi drives down wrong side of street after being alarmed by unicyclists Strange tales from San Francisco AI + ML23 Apr 2024 | 54
Microsoft shrinks AI down to pocket size with Phi-3 Mini Language model focused on reasoning fits on a smartphone and runs offline AI + ML23 Apr 2024 | 11
Japan to draw up routes for roads dedicated to robot trucks Digital reform conference sees PM repeat calls to get online government services right at last Public Sector23 Apr 2024 | 9
Ex-Amazon exec claims she was asked to ignore copyright law in race to AI High-flying AI scientist claims unfair dismissal following pregnancy leave AI + ML22 Apr 2024 | 42
Microsoft foresees a new type of AI PC: A Surface designed with help from machines For now, Redmond is dogfooding Azure for product simulations AI + ML22 Apr 2024 | 5
Microsoft teases deepfake AI that's too powerful to release VASA-1 framework can turn a still image and a cloned voice file into a plausible video of a person talking AI + ML20 Apr 2024 | 41
Google squashes AI teams together in push for fresh models You can leave your personal vendettas at home – we have work to do, Pichai warns AI + ML19 Apr 2024 | 14
UK unions publish AI bill to protect workers from 'risks and harms' of tech TUC questions government's approach so far AI + ML19 Apr 2024 | 3
Oracle scores big win with Fujitsu Japan for its Alloy partner cloud But Big Red's $8 billion investment plan may not be all it seems Channel19 Apr 2024 | 1
Meta lets Llama 3 LLM out to graze, claims it can give Google and Anthropic a kicking Plans multilingual 400 billion parameter version, but starts with more modest fare AI + ML19 Apr 2024 | 8
US Air Force says AI-controlled F-16 fighter jet has been dogfighting with humans Video Robo-plane was made to restrain itself so as not to harm pilot or airframe AI + ML18 Apr 2024 | 105
Another Boeing whistleblower comes forward – with receipts What's that? Q1 was better than expected? Pump those shares
If Britain is so bothered by China, why do these .gov.uk sites use Chinese ad brokers? Exclusive One wonders why are there adverts on public-sector portals at all
Australia’s spies and cops want ‘accountable encryption’ - aka access to backdoors And warn that AI is already being used by extremists to plot attacks
US government reportedly ponders crimping China's use of RISC-V Permissive licenses may be about to collide with geopolitics
Now all Windows 11 users are getting adverts to 'make the Start menu great again' And you thought the Bing begging was annoying
Samsung shows off battery tech it says will see you gone in nine minutes Might help to set spluttering EV market on fire. Won't catch fire thanks to built-in vents
IBM to acquire Hashi for $6.4B, hopes it will boost software biz and Red Hat Investors want to know what Big Blue is smoking after growth disappoints
City council audit trail is an audit fail after disastrous Oracle ERP rollout Europe's largest local authority had no way of knowing if fraud took place
Shouldn't Teams, Zoom, Slack all interoperate securely for the Feds? Wyden is asking Doctorow: 'The most amazing part is that this isn't already the way it's done'
Stability AI decimates staff just weeks after CEO's exit More like Instability AI, right kids? AI + ML18 Apr 2024 | 13
Microsoft claims it didn't mean to inject Copilot into Windows Server 2022 this week AI assistant turns up via Edge update. It was an accident. This time... AI + ML18 Apr 2024 | 53
Getting on board with AI How partnerships can provide the key to getting up and running with AI faster than the competition Sponsored Feature
AI PCs are here but a killer application for biz users? Nope Resist the pressure to jump on the bandwagon just yet warns, warns Forrester AI + ML18 Apr 2024 | 37
Psst, hey. It's the NSA. You want some AI security advice? You can trust us, we're the good guys AI + ML17 Apr 2024 | 2
Intel's neuromorphic 'owl brain' swoops into Sandia labs Hala Point system crams more than a thousand neurochips into a 6U chassis to tackle real-time AI AI + ML17 Apr 2024 | 1
OpenAI's GPT-4 can exploit real vulnerabilities by reading security advisories While some other LLMs appear to flat-out suck AI + ML17 Apr 2024 | 6
Devaluing content created by AI is lazy and ignores history Column The answer is not to hide from ML, but to be honest about it AI + ML17 Apr 2024 | 65
Google will pump more than $100B into AI, says DeepMind boss Not all at once, of course AI + ML17 Apr 2024 | 5
Indian PM's 25-year roadmap laid out with help from AI AI is so good at drawing pictures and driving cars, why not let it govern a country? AI + ML17 Apr 2024 | 8
RISC-V AI chip upstart Rivos plans to undercut Nvidia, helped by a quarter-billion in VC lucre With Apple lawsuit behind it, focussed on finalizing its designs On-Prem17 Apr 2024 |
Gentoo Linux tells AI-generated code contributions to fork off A good PR move opines community member OSes16 Apr 2024 | 21
AI gold rush continues as Microsoft invests $1.5B in UAE's G42 Can regulators keep up? AI + ML16 Apr 2024 | 3
AI cloud startup TensorWave bets AMD can beat Nvidia Starts racking MI300X systems - because you can actually buy them and they beat the H100 on many specs Systems16 Apr 2024 | 5
OpenAI launches Asian operations in Tokyo to avoid being lost in translation Local customers get early access to Japanese-language GPT-4 AI + ML16 Apr 2024 | 3
Los Alamos Lab powers up Nvidia-laden Venado supercomputer Promises up to ten AI exaFLOPs of grunt – if you turn down the resolution a bit Systems16 Apr 2024 | 4
What's up with AI lately? Let's start with soaring costs, public anger, regulations... 'Obtaining genuine consent for training data collection is especially challenging' industry sages say AI + ML15 Apr 2024 | 12
Hyundai picks Palantir to help it build automated navy ships Reconaissance vessels first, then set a course for armed drones AI + ML15 Apr 2024 | 8
Why making pretend people with AGI is a waste of energy Interview Industrial revolution didn't give us human mimics, so why should AI think like us, this computer scientist wonders AI + ML14 Apr 2024 | 61
How to coax ChatGPT into making better predictions: Get it to tell tales from the future 'Something is stopping it, even though it clearly can do it' AI + ML14 Apr 2024 | 16
AI spam is winning the battle against search engine quality interview 'Not all AI content is spam, but I think right now all spam is AI content' AI + ML13 Apr 2024 | 36
75% of enterprise coders will use AI helpers by 2028. We didn't say productively Dev teams must beware inflated expectations of tech leadership, Gartner warns Devops13 Apr 2024 | 45
Intel preps export-friendly lower-power Gaudi 3 AI chips for China Beijing will be thrilled by this nerfed silicon AI + ML12 Apr 2024 | 5
Adobe will fork over cash for clips to train text-to-video AI Not touching copyrighted material with a barge pole AI + ML12 Apr 2024 | 2
British watchdog has 'real concerns' about the staggering love-in between cloud giants and AI upstarts Billions in investment? Yeeeah, right – looks more like ensuring only select few developers thrive AI + ML12 Apr 2024 | 4
OpenAI CEO wants UAE into his plan for a global AI cabal Asking for emir few billion bucks to pay for lots of fabs, datacenters, and nuclear power plants AI + ML12 Apr 2024 | 7
ChatGPT-3.5, Claude 3 kick pixelated butt in Street Fighter III tournament for LLMs But don't expect them to compete with human pros anytime soon AI + ML11 Apr 2024 |
US, Japan announce joint AI research projects funded by Nvidia, Microsoft, others Not that $110M will go very far, mind AI + ML11 Apr 2024 |
Dell shaves months off lead times for GPU-powered AI servers TSMC turns advanced packaging production knob to 11 HPC11 Apr 2024 | 2
MPs ask: Why is it so freakin' hard to get AI giants to pay copyright holders? Agreement on consent and compensation has failed to materialize AI + ML11 Apr 2024 | 58
Boffins deem Google DeepMind's material discoveries rather shallow Web titan rejects criticisms, insists AI-found compounds are legit AI + ML11 Apr 2024 | 21
US Air Force secretary so confident in AI-controlled F-16s, he'll fly in one With a pilot as backup of course – VENOM is still emerging tech AI + ML10 Apr 2024 | 34
Next-gen Meta AI chip serves up ads while sipping power Fresh silicon won't curb Zuck's appetite for GPUs just yet On-Prem10 Apr 2024 | 6
US House mulls forcing AI makers to reveal use of copyrighted training data Proposed law doesn't include any ban on use of such stuff to build models, mind you AI + ML10 Apr 2024 | 16
Healthcare AI won't take jobs – it'll make nursing easier, says process automation founder Interview Something's gotta give in short-staffed, overworked healthcare industry, reckons Thoughtful cofounder and CPO AI + ML10 Apr 2024 | 20
Why it’s time to rethink your cloud strategy Organizations must rethink where and how they are placing their workloads as applications and data become more distributed Commissioned
AI boom is boosting demand even for HDDs, raising prices by up to 20% since Q3 No computer part, even spinning rust, is safe from the hype cycle Storage10 Apr 2024 | 1
Intel CEO suggests AI can help to create a one-person Unicorn Intel Vision And possibly replace entire business units too AI + ML10 Apr 2024 | 38
Intel over the Moon as Lunar Lake’s NPU performance TOPS Meteor Lake Intel Vision Pat Gelsinger claims 3x performance in next-gen silicon for AI PCs Systems10 Apr 2024 | 3
Google Cloud chief is really psyched about this AI thing Cloud Next We're on a highway to ML PaaS + IaaS09 Apr 2024 | 6
Despite two previous court victories, Tesla settles third Autopilot liability case Amount sealed because it would result in 'serious injury,' say company lawyers AI + ML09 Apr 2024 | 47
Reader poll – what next for AI and HPC El Reg readers have their say on approach to building and deploying AI enabled applications and services Sponsored Survey
Arm flexes silicon muscles to push generative AI at the edge Ethos-U85 microNPU boasts 4x performance boost over previous gen Systems09 Apr 2024 | 1
AI could crash democracy and cause wars, warns Japan's NTT Calls for ecosystem in which AIs keep other AIs in check, and lots more regulation AI + ML09 Apr 2024 | 28
The road to innovation using AI and machine learning Hear how Amazon Web Services and its partners can help you innovate faster with AI and machine learning Sponsored Post
Japan may join UK/US/Australia defense-oriented AI and quantum alliance But not the nuclear subs bit Public Sector09 Apr 2024 | 30
Microsoft puts ex-DeepMind boffin in charge of London AI hub Follows £2.5 billion pledge to 'upskill' British workers for the new world order AI + ML08 Apr 2024 | 2
Developers are calling the shots on AI planning, judging by your experience Reader Poll Results And American CIOs keep a closer eye on the purse strings than European equivalents AI + ML08 Apr 2024 |
Shadow of Trump hangs over future EU-US tech collaboration Orange candidate has been known to use protectionist policy against allies AI + ML08 Apr 2024 | 12
Google is wrong to put AI search features behind paywall, says HPC leader Interview 'A huge amount of responsibility to ensure that there is ethical management' AI + ML08 Apr 2024 | 34
Naver debuts multilingual HyperCLOVA X LLM it will use to build sovereign AI for Asia Because English isn't the only language AI + ML08 Apr 2024 |
AI will reduce workforce, say 41% of surveyed executives Biz leaders optimistic it can reduce living, breathing cost centers... er, valued workers AI + ML06 Apr 2024 | 54
Microsoft warns that China is using AI to stir the pot ahead of US election Beware random inflammatory questions on social media – they may come from a threat actor AI + ML05 Apr 2024 | 89
Microsoft hiring Inflection team triggers interest from EU's antitrust chief All sorts of levers being pulled to lure AI developers from here, there, everywhere AI + ML05 Apr 2024 | 4
Tough luck, bosses, AI is coming for your job, too Algorithms as PHBs – who wouldn't want that? AI + ML05 Apr 2024 | 38
Tech titans assemble to decide which jobs AI should cut first But don't worry, if tech takes your job, we'll retrain you AI + ML04 Apr 2024 | 64
Google ponders making AI search a premium option Ad-free search experience might not be on the cards AI + ML04 Apr 2024 | 20
Ethernet advances will end Nvidia's InfiniBand lead in AI networks Desire to build brainboxes will also see optical interconnects go mainstream Networks04 Apr 2024 | 7
PCIe 7.0 first official draft lands, doubling bandwidth yet again Analysis The downside? You probably won't see kit to use it until 2027 Systems03 Apr 2024 | 13
Opera browser dev branch rolls out support for running LLMs locally 150 variants from about 50 families to choose from AI + ML03 Apr 2024 | 5
Bon Jovi, Billy Eilish, other musicians implore AI devs to think of humanity Using copyrighted material to train models affects artists' livelihoods, says open letter AI + ML03 Apr 2024 | 45
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How this open source LLM chatbot runner hit the gas on x86, Arm CPUs Way to whip that LLaMA's ass Applications03 Apr 2024 | 3
Turns out AI chatbots are way more persuasive than humans Next time you get in a Facebook argument, just let ChatGPT handle it AI + ML03 Apr 2024 | 27
Stability AI reportedly ran out of cash to pay its bills for rented cloudy GPUs Generative AI darling was on track to pay $99M on compute to generate just $11M in revenues AI + ML03 Apr 2024 | 22
X's Grok AI is great – if you want to know how to hot wire a car, make drugs, or worse Elon controversial? No way AI + ML02 Apr 2024 | 37
Amazon to lure upstarts with $500K in AWS AI credits each Come on in, drill into Anthropic and Mistral – that's not the sound of a door slamming shut behind you AI + ML02 Apr 2024 | 1
What if AI produces code not just quickly but also, dunno, securely, DARPA wonders As 70% of boffinry nerve center's projects involve machine learning AI + ML02 Apr 2024 | 13
UK and US to jointly develop AI test suites to tackle risks Memorandum of Understanding penned to put models, systems, and agents through their paces AI + ML02 Apr 2024 | 4
US House of Reps tells staff: No Microsoft Copilot for you! At least not until Redmond's government edition is ready to roll Public Sector01 Apr 2024 | 10
Microsoft, OpenAI may be dreaming of $100B 5GW AI 'Stargate' supercomputer Play it again, Sam AI + ML01 Apr 2024 | 34
OpenAI claims its software can clone your voice from 15 seconds of you talking Super lab loves to big up things it says it couldn't possibly let loose on the world for now AI + ML01 Apr 2024 | 19
Why Microsoft's Copilot will only kinda run locally on AI PCs for now Comment Redmond’s strategy for blending cloud and client is finally taking shape AI + ML31 Mar 2024 | 38
Microsoft rolls out safety tools for Azure AI. Hint: More models Defenses against prompt injection, hallucination arrive as Feds eye ML risks AI + ML29 Mar 2024 | 10
Hillary Clinton: 2024 will be 'ground zero' for AI election manipulation 2016 meddling was 'primitive' compared to what's ahead AI + ML29 Mar 2024 | 238
Databricks claims its open source foundational LLM outsmarts GPT-3.5 In the AI gold rush, analytics outfit wants to provide the shovels AI + ML28 Mar 2024 | 5
AI hallucinates software packages and devs download them – even if potentially poisoned with malware In-depth Simply look out for libraries imagined by ML and make them real, with actual malicious code. No wait, don't do that Security28 Mar 2024 | 84
Singapore improves the AI it uses to detect smokers Past versions struggled to spot a lungbuster – this time authorities think they've reduced false positives Public Sector28 Mar 2024 | 21
Amazon finishes pumping $4B into AI darling Anthropic Adds $2.75B to the ML sweepstakes ante and is counting on Claude AI + ML27 Mar 2024 | 3
Belgian beer study acquires taste for machine learning Researchers reckon results could improve recipe development for food and beverages AI + ML27 Mar 2024 | 10