AI to invade hundreds more Taco Bell drive-thrus this year After McDonald’s puts chatbots on ice, TB decides to take a bite AI + ML01 Aug 2024 | 18
Here we go again with more AI crime prediction for policing Hold that thought, citizen AI + ML01 Aug 2024 | 26
Is AI going to pay its way? Wall Street wants tech world to show it the money Kettle 2025 could be Peak Nvidia when reality finally kicks in AI + ML01 Aug 2024 | 24
OpenAI might be a partner, but it's also a competitor, says Microsoft Opinion Either Sam and Satya are on the rocks, or this is just more maneuvering to avoid regulatory scrutiny AI + ML01 Aug 2024 | 4
Meta to boost training infra for Llama 4 tenfold, maybe deliver it next year Sweet sweet GenAI money not yet flowing, Zuck reckons other ML efforts are paying off AI + ML01 Aug 2024 | 4
Superclusters too big, but single servers too small? Oracle offers AI Goldilocks zone Adds L40 bare metal option to the O-Cloud, plus A100 and H100 VMs. And teases a GH200 beast PaaS + IaaS01 Aug 2024 | 1
Tesla that killed motorcyclist was in Full Self-Driving mode 28-year-old mowed down in US state where cars ordinarily aren't allowed to operate autonomously AI + ML31 Jul 2024 | 166
EU AI Act still in infancy, but those with 'intelligent' HR apps better watch out Users and developers warned to prepare for what's coming with human resources a focus in 'high-risk' category AI + ML31 Jul 2024 | 37
China stops worrying about lack of GPUs and learns to love the supercomputer The workaround is going to be inevitable in the future anyway, say Chinese boffins HPC31 Jul 2024 | 22
Canceled meeting between US and UAE throws fresh scrutiny on Microsoft-G42 deal All a simple misunderstanding, we're told AI + ML31 Jul 2024 | 9
AMD sold $1B of Instinct GPUs last quarter, driving triple-digit datacenter growth Which is nice, but way behind Nvidia, while other segments are soft and supply-chain pain persists On-Prem31 Jul 2024 | 1
No love lost between Apple and Nvidia as iGiant chooses Google chips for AI training Things are getting Tensor between Cupertino and Nv AI + ML30 Jul 2024 | 9
Meta to cough up $1.4B to end fight over 'unlawful' facial recognition of friends Everything's bigger in Texas – even the settlement deals AI + ML30 Jul 2024 | 16
Zuck dreams of personalized AI assistants for all – just like email SIGGRAPH A model finetuned on your social media profile? What could possibly go wrong? AI + ML30 Jul 2024 | 31
How deliciously binary: AI has yet to pay off – or is transforming business Feature Calculating ROI of neural networks turns out to be rather complicated CxO30 Jul 2024 | 67
Europe launches 'AI Factories' initiative in hopes of competing globally Yes, you've heard the term 'AI Factories' before but Europe has its own spin AI + ML30 Jul 2024 | 15
Automation needed to fight army of AI content harvesters stalking the web Analysis Just when you think you've ban-hammered them all, more pop up AI + ML30 Jul 2024 | 21
Apple Intelligence beta lands in iOS 18.1, macOS 15.1 previews At last, the world-changing innovation of ML emojis can be yours to enjoy AI + ML30 Jul 2024 | 17
Meta's AI safety system defeated by the space bar 'Ignore previous instructions' thwarts Prompt-Guard model if you just add some good ol' ASCII code 32 AI + ML29 Jul 2024 | 55
Open source AI helped China catch up to the world, researchers reckon APAC in brief Plus: Grab drops cab merger, Kakao founder goes to the clink, Alibaba denies Jack Ma cronyism, and more AI + ML29 Jul 2024 | 9
Meta's AI safety system defeated by the space bar 'Ignore previous instructions' thwarts Prompt-Guard model if you just add some good ol' ASCII code 32
Microsoft's Azure networking takes a worldwide tumble Updated Ready to talk it up to investors today, Redmond?
Compared to other distros, Vanilla OS 2 'Orchid' is rewriting how Linux works In front, unmodified GNOME; underneath, it's all a bit strange, but purposefully so
Firefox's Mozilla follows Google in losing trust in Entrust's TLS certificates Compliance failures and unsatisfactory responses mount from the long-time certificate authority
DARPA suggests turning old C code automatically into Rust – using AI, of course Who wants to make a TRACTOR pull request?
50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution In 1974, Gary Kildall got the first version working and changed the world of operating systems
Boeing's Starliner proves better at torching cash than reaching orbit Perhaps those thrusters actually burn dollars after all
Post-CrowdStrike, Microsoft to discourage use of kernel drivers by security tools Updated Now there's an idea – parsing config data in user mode
DigiCert gives unlucky folks 24 hours to replace doomed certificates after code blunder For the want of an underscore
Russia takes aim at Sitting Ducks domains, bags 30,000+ Eight-year-old domain hijacking technique still claiming victims
The secret to better weather forecasts may be a dash of AI Google adds machine learning to climate models for 'faster forecasts' Science27 Jul 2024 | 92
Video game actors strike because they fear an attack of the AI clones You wouldn't download a performer AI + ML26 Jul 2024 | 43
Google DeepMind's latest models kinda sorta take silver at Math Olympiad Sure, it took three days to do what teenaged brainiacs do in nine hours – but who's counting? AI + ML26 Jul 2024 | 14
Study shock! AI hinders productivity and makes working worse Management drank the Kool Aid but staff can't cope with new demands AI + ML26 Jul 2024 | 81
Sam Altman wants a US-led freedom coalition to fight authoritarian AI Team America AI Police? AI + ML25 Jul 2024 | 30
OpenAI unveils AI search engine SearchGPT – not that you're allowed to use it yet Launching in Beta is so 2014. We're in the prototype limited sign-up era now AI + ML25 Jul 2024 | 2
Microsoft adds generative search to its Bing engine Looks a lot like Google's AI Overviews, hopefully without some of the early unfortunate summaries AI + ML25 Jul 2024 | 5
AI models face collapse if they overdose on their own output Recursive training leads to nonsense, study finds AI + ML25 Jul 2024 | 140
You're not hallucinating: Generative AI is helping IBM's mainframes grow Big Blue brings in more cash and profit than predicted Systems25 Jul 2024 | 9
ServiceNow president leaves after policy breach related to public sector boss hire But the books look good, because of real AI SaaS25 Jul 2024 | 2
Mistral Large 2 leaps out as a leaner, meaner rival to GPT-4-class AI models It's not the size that matters, it's how you use it AI + ML25 Jul 2024 | 2
Microsoft wants fatter pipes between its AI datacenters, asks Lumen to make light work of it Is this what the kidz call a glow-up? Networks24 Jul 2024 | 1
Musk deflects sluggish Tesla car sales with Optimus optimism Claims 'everyone on Earth is going to want one' AI + ML24 Jul 2024 | 87
Google keeps the cost of AI search flat, and kids are lovin' it As the G-Cloud brings in big bucks and plentiful profit AI + ML24 Jul 2024 | 3
Meta claims ‘world’s largest' open AI model with Llama 3.1 405B debut Zuck says he wants to mimic Linux and go open source, kind of AI + ML23 Jul 2024 | 11
Sam Altman's basic income experiment finds that money can indeed buy happiness But not necessarily health AI + ML23 Jul 2024 | 100
What does Google Gemini do with your data? Well, it's complicated... Big misconception is that data ingestion is occurring, we're told AI + ML22 Jul 2024 | 10
Websites clamp down as creepy AI crawlers sneak around for snippets Shrinks training pool, but hurts services like the Internet Archive AI + ML22 Jul 2024 | 15
OpenAI’s GPT-4o Mini is indeed small – like its lead over rivals in certain tests AI Roundup Plus: Meta Euro model drama; Mistral and Nvidia find NeMo; and more AI + ML19 Jul 2024 | 5
Sam Altman sues builder over $27M flooded, sewage-hit 'lemon' of a mega-mansion Leaking skylights, collapsed roof, garbage-clogged pipes - did ChatGPT make this? Bootnotes18 Jul 2024 | 87
Samsung buys UK AI startup to give its products the personal touch Oxford Semantic could help your fridge and smartphone pick up on your proclivities AI + ML18 Jul 2024 | 15
Anthropic teams up with venture capital firm to kickstart $100M AI startup fund Recipients of six-digit investments aren’t required to use Claude AI + ML17 Jul 2024 | 1
Fujitsu picks model-maker Cohere as its partner for the rapid LLM-development dance Will become exclusive route to market for joint projects AI + ML17 Jul 2024 | 4
If you think AI labs wouldn't stoop to using scraped YouTube subtitles for training, think again Comment What next, nutrition labels on cartons? Probably AI + ML17 Jul 2024 | 28
Gartner nudges down global IT spending growth forecast as 'change fatigue' persists Meanwhile, software vendors are left paying the GenAI 'tax' as users yet to see value AI + ML16 Jul 2024 | 2
Your next datacenter could be in the middle of nowhere Feature Training AI models doesn't need low latency. It needs cheap energy – wherever it can be found Off-Prem15 Jul 2024 | 14
Honey, I shrunk the LLM! A beginner's guide to quantization – and testing it Hands on Just be careful not to shave off too many bits ... These things are known to hallucinate as it is AI + ML14 Jul 2024 | 20
White House urged to double check Microsoft isn't funneling AI to China via G42 deal Windows maker insisted everything will be locked down and secure – which given its reputation, uh-oh! AI + ML12 Jul 2024 | 4
AMD buys developer Silo AI in bid to match Nvidia's product range First it comes for market leader's GPUs ... now it's nibbling at software AI + ML11 Jul 2024 |
China’s homebrew openKylin OS creates a cut for AI PCs Devs of OS named for a mythical beast join in the 'local models will will deliver legendary productivity' trope AI + ML11 Jul 2024 | 8
Microsoft exits OpenAI's boardroom to sidestep regulatory scrutiny Redmond 'confident in the company's direction' says withdrawal letter AI + ML10 Jul 2024 | 8
Babel fish? We're getting there. Reg reviews the Timekettle X1 AI Interpreter Hub Review A handy standalone translator, but you'll need deep pockets, both figuratively and literally, if you want one AI + ML10 Jul 2024 | 53
Big Tech's eventual response to my LLM-crasher bug report was dire Column Fixes have been made, it appears, but disclosure or discussion is invisible AI + ML10 Jul 2024 | 72
FBI, cyber-cops zap ~1K Russian AI disinfo Twitter bots RT News snarks back after it's accused of building social nyet-work for Kremlin Cyber-crime09 Jul 2024 | 11
China's Moore Threads adds support for 10K GPU clusters Chinese slinger's kit still no match for Nvidia's sanction-evading cards On-Prem09 Jul 2024 | 7
Coders' Copilot code-copying copyright claims crumble against GitHub, Microsoft A few devs versus the powerful forces of Redmond – who did you think was going to win? Software08 Jul 2024 | 40
Peloton faces lawsuit over claims it pedaled past privacy Chat widget allegedly fed data to third party, which used it to train AI without telling customers AI + ML08 Jul 2024 | 8
Breaking the rules is in Big Tech's blood – now it's time to break the habit Opinion Microsoft: All your data are belong to us? World: That's so last century AI + ML08 Jul 2024 | 39
Copilot+ PCs software compatibility issues left to you to sort out, with help from crowdsourcers Samsung warned users, but the PC industry’s big players hardly mention the possibility of problems Personal Tech08 Jul 2024 | 31
A friendly guide to containerization for AI work Hands on Save the headaches, ship your dependencies AI + ML07 Jul 2024 | 4
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 | 19
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 | 6
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 | 49
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 | 38
How tech went from free love to pay-per-day Devconf.cz FOSS, AI, blockchain, and the cycle of empty nonsense Applications02 Jul 2024 | 91
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 | 19
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 | 60
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
'Skeleton Key' attack unlocks the worst of AI, says Microsoft Simple jailbreak prompt can bypass safety guardrails on major models AI + ML28 Jun 2024 | 115
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 Updated 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 | 50
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 | 9
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 | 6