Nvidia turns up the AI heat with 1,200W Blackwell GPUs Five times the performance of the H100, but you'll need liquid cooling to tame the beast Systems18 Mar 2024 | 6
YouTube creators must now 'fess up to using AI in vids Not everything requires tagging so feel free to maintain unrealistic beauty standards Personal Tech18 Mar 2024 | 3
Grok-1 chatbot code released – open source or open Pandora's box? What hasn't been released by Elon Musk's xAI is also of note AI + ML18 Mar 2024 | 7
Investment advisors pay the price for selling what looked a lot like AI fairy tales SEC bags $400K in settlements AI + ML18 Mar 2024 | 6
Sorry, Siri: Apple may be eyeing Google Gemini for future iPhones Famous for keeping everything in-house, Apple may be carving AI-shaped door in its garden wall AI + ML18 Mar 2024 | 18
Microsoft promises Copilot will be a 'moneymaker' in the long term Exec tells investors to 'temper' expectations as mission to convince customers of price tag continues AI + ML18 Mar 2024 | 43
India quickly unwinds requirement for government approval of AIs Asia in brief Also: US woos Thailand, Philippines, for tech trade; China's Fukushima rage glows; Alibaba targets South Korea AI + ML18 Mar 2024 | 2
How to run an LLM on your PC, not in the cloud, in less than 10 minutes Hands On Cut through the hype, keep your data private, find out what all the fuss is about Systems17 Mar 2024 | 60
In the rush to build AI apps, please, please don't leave security behind Feature Supply-chain attacks are definitely possible and could lead to data theft, system hijacking, and more AI + ML17 Mar 2024 | 17
Bernie Sanders clocks in with 4-day workweek bill thanks to AI and productivity tech Don't start planning your long weekend yet – proposal is likely to be a hard sell in work-obsessed America Offbeat15 Mar 2024 | 64
Microsoft says AI alliances are needed to compete with Google Only the Chocolate Factory is 'vertically integrated' to win at 'every AI layer from chips to a thriving mobile app store' AI + ML15 Mar 2024 | 6
Alibaba pits people against AI in its annual mathematics competition Thankfully the prizes for human winners are far higher than those for machines AI + ML15 Mar 2024 |
Oracle adds GenAI to Fusion with a whopping 50 use cases But is there one that can sort out failing ERP projects? Well Larry, is there? AI + ML14 Mar 2024 | 2
Google brains plumb depths of the uncanny valley with latest image-to-video tool VLOGGER needs just a still photo and an audio recording to generate footage, but it's far from perfect Software14 Mar 2024 | 12
AI and wearables are scaring the wellbeing out of workers We thought everyone was thrilled about being spied on and having their jobs taken by bots AI + ML14 Mar 2024 | 21
Microsoft forges One Teams App To Rule Them All Windows preview delivers one app to handle multiple accounts, boosts Copilot's capabilities Software14 Mar 2024 | 40
South Korea goes out on a limb to manage forests with AI, satellites Plans to digitally transform trees Public Sector14 Mar 2024 | 1
Leaked docs hint Google may use SiFive RISC-V cores in next-gen TPUs Opinion Would put those AI accelerators out of Arm's reach, at least AI + ML13 Mar 2024 | 8
From quantum AI to photonics, what OpenAI’s latest hire tells us about its future Analysis What's good for quantum optimization could help make models leaner Systems13 Mar 2024 | 10
Microsoft Copilot for Security prepares for April liftoff Automated AI helper intended to make security more manageable Security13 Mar 2024 | 22
European Union lawmakers line up to defend world's first AI Act Rules were not bent for Big Tech, politicians say AI + ML13 Mar 2024 | 10
Nvidia rival Cerebras says it's revived Moore's Law with third-gen waferscale chips Startup is also working with Qualcomm on optimized models for its Cloud AI 100 Ultra inference chips Systems13 Mar 2024 | 10
Can AI shorten PC replacement cycles? Dell seems to think so Might be wishful thinking from finance exec following two-year computer sector recession Personal Tech13 Mar 2024 | 74
Whizkids jimmy OpenAI, Google's closed models Infosec folk aren’t thrilled that if you poke APIs enough, you learn AI's secrets AI + ML13 Mar 2024 | 42
Your PC can probably run inferencing just fine – so it's already an AI PC Opinion Language models are entirely happy on the desktop Personal Tech13 Mar 2024 | 37
IBM said to be binning off more staff as 'workforce rebalance' continues Next logical step after rounds of voluntary layoffs Systems12 Mar 2024 | 21
Google searches for boss to get grip on climate, energy costs of this AI hype cycle Hyperscalers increasingly looking over shoulders as workloads grow AI + ML12 Mar 2024 | 3
Oracle investors hear the magic word 'Nvidia' and boom! Buy, buy, buy Forget the piffle about real world results, let's look at the potential of wundertech Databases12 Mar 2024 |
We asked Intel to define 'AI PC'. Its reply: 'Anything with our latest CPUs' If it has a GPU and NPU, plus VNNI and DP4a instructions, it qualifies. But it's not a brand like vPro or Ultrabook Personal Tech12 Mar 2024 | 26
Microsoft calls AI privacy complaint 'doomsday hyperbole' Plaintiffs seek termination of permissionless and unpaid AI data harvesting Legal12 Mar 2024 | 31
Singapore's central bank warns AI isn't ready to handle monetary policy LLMs show promise, but are 'not yet capable of providing credible explanations for their own predictions' AI + ML12 Mar 2024 | 9
GPT-4 won't run Doom but will play the game poorly Should we worry this model is happy to grab a gun and start blasting? AI + ML11 Mar 2024 | 21
AI models show racial bias based on written dialect, researchers find Those using African American vernacular more likely to be sentenced to death, if LLMs were asked to decide AI + ML11 Mar 2024 | 72
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is back on the company's board, along with three new members AI in brief PLUS: Microsoft bars prompts to make Copilot less violent and NSFW AI + ML11 Mar 2024 | 8
You got legal trouble? Better call SauLM-7B Cooked in a math lab, here's an open source LLM that knows the law AI + ML09 Mar 2024 | 27
Biden's State of the Union included a battle cry against AI mimicry Lots of pats on the back for the CHIPS Act too AI + ML09 Mar 2024 | 16
Palantir wins US Army contract for battlefield AI US spy-tech firm at center of UK health data systems applies its technology to altogether different ends AI + ML08 Mar 2024 | 19
AI mishaps are surging – and now they're being tracked like software bugs Interview The Register speaks to the folks behind the AI Incident Database AI + ML08 Mar 2024 | 8
Broadcom says VMware to grow revenue by double-digit percentages all year Networking silicon surges, Carbon Black to be kept in the fold Virtualization08 Mar 2024 | 12
India plans 10,000-GPU sovereign AI supercomputer Puts $1.2 billion on the table for AI skills and local LLMs, tells private enterprise it expects help Public Sector08 Mar 2024 | 5
Reddit rolling out AI bouncer to halt harassment If any mods are considering an anti-IPO blackout, you could be replaced by a bot AI + ML07 Mar 2024 | 13
Reminder: Infostealer malware is coming for your ChatGPT credentials Singaporean researchers note rising presence of OpenAI logins in infostealer malware logs Security07 Mar 2024 | 14
Chinese chap charged with stealing Google’s AI datacenter secrets Moonlighted for PRC companies after side-stepping Big G's security, allegedly On-Prem07 Mar 2024 | 13
Desktop GPU shipments jumped by a third – no thanks to AI PCs Prices stabilized, so buyers opened their wallets AI + ML06 Mar 2024 | 6
Governments not keen on pushing citizen-facing AI services, for obvious reasons As soon as public sector implements GenAI, someone will do their best to break it... or even flirt with it AI + ML06 Mar 2024 | 4
OpenAI goes public with Musk emails, claiming he backed for-profit plans Be careful what you write in that message AI + ML06 Mar 2024 | 22
China pushes 'AI Plus' initiative to integrate technology and industry Beijing used a similar moniker for program that arguably gave us TikTok, Tencent, and Xiaomi Public Sector06 Mar 2024 | 5
Trump supporters forge AI deepfakes to woo Black voters Perps argue that if you vote based on one fake pic you get what you deserve AI + ML05 Mar 2024 | 40
AMD hires former Oak Ridge chief to punt AI to governments You get a 'sovereign' AI, and you get a 'sovereign' AI, everybody gets a 'sovereign' AI AI + ML05 Mar 2024 | 1
Nvidia now plays kingmaker in the server court, says Omdia AI's appetite for compute means general refreshes stalled as customer used budgets elsewhere On-Prem05 Mar 2024 | 1
Dell exec reveals Nvidia has a 1,000-watt GPU in the works Hot and hungry, yet direct liquid cooling may not be required On-Prem05 Mar 2024 | 19
AMD may have failed to dumb down its chips enough to allow China sales Washington reportedly decided chipmaker hadn’t done too little Public Sector05 Mar 2024 | 9
Cloudflare wants to put a firewall in front of your LLM Claims to protect against DDoS, sensitive data leakage Security05 Mar 2024 | 2
Anthropic unlocks Claude 3, claims it's better than ChatGPT and Gemini Boasts of 'near-human levels of comprehension and fluency' AI + ML05 Mar 2024 | 28
Amazon goes nuclear, acquires Cumulus Data's atomic datacenters for $650M E-commerce giant on the hook for 480MW of power from Susquehanna plant Off-Prem04 Mar 2024 | 13
Apple gets in on the AI PC hype, claims fanless M3 MacBook Air is fab for LLMs Plus a new anodization seal should make Midnight edition more resilient to gamer grease Personal Tech04 Mar 2024 | 25
Google advances with vector search in MySQL, leapfrogging Oracle in LLM support Meanwhile, only 22% of orgs are looking at GenAI strategy for databases Databases04 Mar 2024 | 2
Cruise's valuation halved after its driverless car hit and dragged a woman AI in brief Plus: Google CEO admits company got it wrong when it built 'too-woke' AI, and more AI + ML04 Mar 2024 | 27
Synopsys unleashes Ethernet on steroids with 1.6T blueprint to turbocharge AI training Design aims to sate the bandwidth hunger of next-gen networks Networks04 Mar 2024 |
India demands beta AIs secure government permission before going public Not compulsory for now, but IT minister says that's coming after Google's Gemini said the quiet part out loud AI + ML04 Mar 2024 | 2
Dell share price jumps 16% on mention of AI server backlog Not bad considering exec had said '2024 didn't go as planned' due to declining overall sales On-Prem01 Mar 2024 | 9
Incoming wave of AI is making buying PCs riskier for businesses Worse than having no tech would be having the wrong tech Personal Tech01 Mar 2024 | 22