Algorithmic wage discrimination: Not just for gig workers
Interview What's in the box! No seriously, what's in there that sets our wages
AI + ML06 Jul 2024 | 9
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Datacenter demand driven by AI... but constrained by power shortages
Not content with drinking up all our water, now we'll compete with DCs for power
AI + ML04 Jul 2024 | 5
Chinese Gen AI researchers snagged more patents than everyone else combined since 2013
You think the US leads the field? Wrong – OpenAI is way down WIPO's charts
AI + ML04 Jul 2024 | 15
Cloudflare debuts one-click nuke of web-scraping AI
Take that for ignoring robots.txt!
Off-Prem03 Jul 2024 | 48
Meta training AI models on citizen data gets a hard não from Brazil
Updated Zuckerborg's justification isn't good enough, says watchdog
AI + ML03 Jul 2024 | 4
Figma pulls AI design tool for seemingly plagiarizing Apple's Weather app
AI is 'like the fast food of creativity'
AI + ML03 Jul 2024 | 12
EFF wants FTC to treat lying chatbots as 'unfair and deceptive' in eyes of the law
And hit AI operators 'with all the fines', says Cory Doctorow
Public Sector02 Jul 2024 | 13
US Army: We want to absorb private-sector AI 'as fast as y'all are building them'
How about a nice game of chess instead?
AI + ML02 Jul 2024 | 8
Google Translate now fluent in 110 additional languages from Abkhaz to Zulu
Ta shoh scansh mie, son ymmyd
Applications02 Jul 2024 | 35
How tech went from free love to pay-per-day
Devconf.cz FOSS, AI, blockchain, and the cycle of empty nonsense
Applications02 Jul 2024 | 81
YouTube confirms it'll pull AI fakes in 48 hours if a complaint's upheld
As ever, terms and conditions apply
Personal Tech02 Jul 2024 | 13
France poised to bring 'charges against Nvidia'
Euro nation's monopoly gendarmes cheesed off with GPU giant's dominance
AI + ML01 Jul 2024 | 16
Lambda on the hunt for 'another $800M' to fuel its GPU cloud
Why sell shovels when you can rent them
PaaS + IaaS01 Jul 2024 | 3
SK hynix pumps billions into HBM chips to meet AI demand
It's already sold out of stock for this year and next
Storage01 Jul 2024 |
A friendly guide to local AI image gen with Stable Diffusion and Automatic1111
Hands On A picture is worth a 1,000 words... or was that a 1,000 TOPS
AI + ML29 Jun 2024 | 23
ChatGPT wrongly insists Trump-Biden CNN debate had 1 to 2-minute delay
Poll Yes, Joe totally had editing help that night, he was certainly impresszzz....
AI + ML29 Jun 2024 | 57
Microsoft CEO of AI: Your online content is 'freeware' fodder for training models
Unless you've got a lawyer, that is
AI + ML28 Jun 2024 | 56
Bill Gates says not to worry about AI gobbling up energy, tech will adapt
So that's fine then
AI + ML28 Jun 2024 | 34
OpenAI, Google ink deals to augment AI efforts with news – it was Time for better sources
Tech giants can't play the RAG-time blues until they pay their dues – in this case to quality publishers
AI + ML28 Jun 2024 | 11
AI to boost datacenter capex by 28.5% and become the top server workload
Cooling tech left to sweat the details
On-Prem28 Jun 2024 | 4
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Microsoft tells yet more customers their emails have been stolen
security in brief Plus: US auto dealers still offline; Conti coders sanction; Rabbit R1 hardcoded API keys; and more
Nasty regreSSHion bug in OpenSSH puts roughly 700K Linux boxes at risk
Full system takeovers on the cards, for those with enough patience to pull it off
Trouble in space as Boeing's not going, and China's back from the Moon
Kettle Vultures chew over a busy few days in orbit with a transatlantic chat
Ransomware scum who hit Indonesian government apologizes, hands over encryption key
Brain Cipher was never getting the $8 million it demanded anyway
VMware license changes mean bare metal can make a comeback through 'devirtualization', says Gartner
Latest datacenter Hype Cycle also includes augmented reality, new types of memory, nuke power
'Almost every Apple device' vulnerable to CocoaPods supply chain attack
Dependency manager used in millions of apps leaves a bitter taste
Indonesian government didn't have backups of ransomwared data, because DR was only an option
President has ordered a datacenter audit and made backups mandatory
Police allege 'evil twin' of in-flight Wi-Fi used to steal passenger's credentials
Fasten your seat belts, secure your tray table, and try not to give away your passwords
How tech went from free love to pay-per-day
Devconf.cz FOSS, AI, blockchain, and the cycle of empty nonsense
Cloudflare debuts one-click nuke of web-scraping AI
Take that for ignoring robots.txt!
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'Skeleton Key' attack unlocks the worst of AI, says Microsoft
Simple jailbreak prompt can bypass safety guardrails on major models
AI + ML28 Jun 2024 | 114
OpenAI develops AI model to critique its AI models
When your chatbots outshine their human trainers, you could pay for expertise ... or just augment your crowdsourced workforce
AI + ML28 Jun 2024 | 6
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
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 | 23
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 | 6
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 | 35
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
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
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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 | 26
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 | 131
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
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