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 | 5
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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 | 7
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 | 53
Stability AI decimates staff just weeks after CEO's exit
More like Instability AI, right kids?
AI + ML18 Apr 2024 | 8
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 | 52
Getting on board with AI
How partnerships can provide the key to getting up and running with AI faster than the competition
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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 | 34
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 | 49
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 | 19
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 | 4
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
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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
EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy
Platforms should not confront users with 'binary choice' over personal data use
Ransomware feared as IT 'issues' force Octapharma Plasma to close 150+ centers
Updated Source blames BlackSuit infection – as separately ISP Frontier confirms cyberattack
Some smart meters won't be smart at all once 2/3G networks mothballed
UK reckoning with prospect of millions of homes with obsolete hardware
Cybercriminals threaten to leak all 5 million records from stolen database of high-risk individuals
It’s the second time the World-Check list has fallen into the wrong hands
Your trainee just took down our business and has no idea how or why
On Call Oh, to have been a fly on the wall in the debrief meeting
IBM accused of cheating its own executive assistants out of overtime pay
Big Blue bosses retaliate against those seeking overtime, lawsuit claims
Wing Commander III changed how the copy hotkey works in Windows 95
No, boss, I'm not just playing a game. I'm testing compatibility. Honest
Feds hit coding boot camp with big fine for allegedly conning students
Do not pass go, do not collect $200, says government agency
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...
STORIES
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 | 60
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 | 35
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 | 19
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 | 27
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
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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 | 33
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
Industrial systems integrating digitalisation
Huawei solutions designed to speed up digital and intelligent transformation across key vertical industries
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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
BBC exterminates AI experiments used to promote Doctor Who
Pics Finally, a power greater than ML hype: Angry fandom
Offbeat27 Mar 2024 | 103
Intel chases smaller code shops with expanded AI PC dev program, NUC kit
Chipzilla wants more apps coded for NPUs, not Nvidia
AI + ML26 Mar 2024 |
Nvidia software exec Kari Briski on NIM, CUDA, and dogfooding AI
Interview A RAGs to riches story
AI + ML26 Mar 2024 |
Coherent lights the way to massive AI clusters with optical circuit switches
Could end-to-end lasers keep long training jobs on track?
Networks25 Mar 2024 | 2
Tiny Corp launches Nvidia-powered AI computer because 'it just works'
Startup slams AMD for buggy firmware
Personal Tech25 Mar 2024 | 9
Samsung preps inferencing accelerator to take on Nvidia, scores huge sale
Asia In Brief PLUS: Tencent's profit plunge; Singtel to build three AI datacenters; McDonald's China gobbles Microsoft AI
AI + ML24 Mar 2024 |
Apple iPhone AI to be powered by Baidu in China, maybe
Of course it's called ERNIE seeing as Google has BERT
Personal Tech23 Mar 2024 | 13
UN unanimously adopts ambitious AI resolution, sans teeth
'Safe, secure and trustworthy' AI a must, says document, but nothing in it ensures anyone plays along
AI + ML22 Mar 2024 | 3
Why France this week fined Google €250M over web news
Google pulls a few coins from the sofa and says whatever, just clarify who needs to be paid for what
Personal Tech21 Mar 2024 | 11
Back of the net? Google's DeepMind is coming for football tactics
2026 FIFA World Cup in US could be first to see ML models play a part... and you thought video referees were crap
AI + ML20 Mar 2024 | 5
UK awards £1.73M to AI projects to advance net zero goals
Great! Just ignore the energy needed to train them, process queries, keep the lights on in datacenters ...
AI + ML20 Mar 2024 | 35
Microsoft hits Inflection point, peels off top personnel to form AI division
FYI, FTC: Karén Simonyan, DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman absorbed rather than acquired
AI + ML19 Mar 2024 | 12
Nvidia: Why write code when you can string together a couple chat bots?
GPU giant says NIM will eliminate dependency headaches for the low low cost of $4,500/year per GPU
Systems19 Mar 2024 | 14
Homeland Security will test out using genAI to train US immigration officers
It's all about privacy, civil rights, civil liberties, ok?
AI + ML19 Mar 2024 | 11
AI researchers have started reviewing their peers using AI assistance
ChatGPT deems your work to be commendable, innovative, and comprehensive
AI + ML19 Mar 2024 | 12
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