Ellison declares Oracle all-in on AI mass surveillance, says it'll keep everyone in line Cops to citizens will be 'on their best behavior because we're constantly recording and reporting' AI + ML16 Sep 2024 | 52
Microsoft's Copilot 'Wave 2' is a tsunami of unanswered questions updated What the next few months hold for the productivity chatbot AI + ML16 Sep 2024 | 37
China wants red flags on all AI-generated content posted online Visible and audible warnings, plus metadata, with absence of info considered suspicious Public Sector16 Sep 2024 | 19
Begun, the open source AI wars have Opinion This is going to be ugly. Really ugly AI + ML14 Sep 2024 | 48
Meta back at it, harvesting Britons' public Facebook, Insta feeds for AI training I wanna know 🎵 What you're feeling 🎵 Tell me what's on your mind Personal Tech14 Sep 2024 | 33
AI giants pinky swear (again) not to help make deepfake smut Oh look, another voluntary, non-binding agreement to do better AI + ML13 Sep 2024 | 17
MongoDB CEO says if AI hype were the dotcom boom, it is 1996 Analysis NoSQL database slinger attempts to reassure investors, kinda AI + ML13 Sep 2024 | 27
OpenAI's latest o1 model family tries to emulate 'reasoning' – tho might overthink things a bit 'Chain of thought' techniques mean latest LLM 'better' at stepping through complex challenges AI + ML13 Sep 2024 | 71
Google sued for using trademarked Gemini name for AI service Even the chatbot allegedly admits to infringement claim AI + ML12 Sep 2024 | 14
Domo arigato, Mr Roboto: Japan's bullet trains to ditch drivers The Shinkansen have operated without fatalities for sixty years – how hard can it be? AI + ML12 Sep 2024 | 125
Nvidia CEO to nervous buyers and investors: Chill out, Blackwell production is heating up AI ROI? Jensen Huang claims infra providers make $5 for every dollar spent on GPUs Systems12 Sep 2024 | 8
AI has colonized our world – so it's time to learn the language of our new overlords Column Brush up on your ‘Delvish’ – the lingo that flatters LLMs into a sort of submission AI + ML11 Sep 2024 | 61
As major web browser makers snuggle up to AI, these skeptical holdouts remain Chatbots, generative models 'in many ways the next step in the surveillance economy' AI + ML10 Sep 2024 | 50
SambaNova makes Llama gallop in inference cloud debut AI infra startup serves up Llama 3.1 405B at 100+ tokens per second Systems10 Sep 2024 | 4
UK Lords push bill to tame rogue algorithms in public sector Peer says government needs to learn lessons from Post Office scandal AI + ML10 Sep 2024 | 17
We're in the brute force phase of AI – once it ends, demand for GPUs will too Gartner thinks generative AI is right for only five percent of workloads AI + ML10 Sep 2024 | 65
US sets reporting requirements for AI models, infrastructure operators Washington wants to know what the biggest model-makers are up to AI + ML10 Sep 2024 | 1
GenAI hype meets harsh reality as enterprises wrestle with business case Nvidia, Equinix clearly making a killing over costs, confusion, and cold feet AI + ML09 Sep 2024 | 17
Microsoft exec warns of business functions being sacrificed on the altar of AI Too many IT modernization projects? Not enough budget? Something will have to give AI + ML09 Sep 2024 | 24
MI6, CIA using generative AI to combat tech-driven enemies Spy bosses use first-ever joint article to bemoan how Russia and China use tech to mess with the world AI + ML09 Sep 2024 | 55
AI bills can blow out by 1000 percent: Gartner Preventing that is doable, but managing what happens when AI upsets people is hard AI + ML09 Sep 2024 | 29
Xockets rockets Nvidia: Blackwell debut threatened by DPU patent claims GPU giant accused of colluding with Microsoft, RPX to sideline startup Systems08 Sep 2024 | 11
What do Uber drivers make of Waymo? 'We are cooked' Feature Robotaxis, low pay may be end of the road for app cabbies in San Francisco AI + ML07 Sep 2024 | 159
Defense AI models 'a risk to life' alleges spurned tech firm In-depth Chatterbox Labs CEO claims Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office unfairly cancelled a contract then accused him of blackmail AI + ML06 Sep 2024 | 8
VMware revenue bounces for Broadcom, chips were a little undercooked CEO says market for non-AI silicon has bottomed out Virtualization06 Sep 2024 | 7
Nvidia and chums inject $160M into Applied Digital to keep GPU sales rolling Datacenters are the lifeline for its $30B ML-fueled boom PaaS + IaaS06 Sep 2024 | 5
AI-pushing Adobe says AI-shy office workers will love AI if it saves them time knowledge workers, overwhelmed by knowledge tasks? We know what you need AI + ML05 Sep 2024 | 32
Global powers sign AI pact promising to preserve human rights, democracy No, Russia and China are not on the list AI + ML05 Sep 2024 | 12
OpenAI co-founder's Safe Superintelligence startup inhales $1B in funding No product? No problem! AI + ML05 Sep 2024 | 24
Amazon congratulates itself for AI code that mostly works Web services souk celebrates 'leader' designation for Q Developer AI + ML05 Sep 2024 | 10
If every PC is going to be an AI PC, they better be as good at all the things trad PCs can do Comment Microsoft's Copilot+ machines suck at one of computing's oldest use cases Channel05 Sep 2024 | 151
AI's thirst for water is alarming, but may solve itself Comment Its energy addiction, on the other hand, only seems to get worse AI + ML05 Sep 2024 | 62
Copilot for Microsoft 365 might boost productivity if you survive the compliance minefield Loads of governance issues to worry about, and the chance it might spout utter garbage AI + ML04 Sep 2024 | 25
'Error' causes Alexa to endorse Kamala Harris, refuse to discuss Trump Bot shouldn't have political opinions, says Amazon Software04 Sep 2024 | 67
Microsoft's Inflection acquihire is too small to matter, say UK regulators Deal can't lessen competition if AI minnow wasn't much of a competitor AI + ML04 Sep 2024 |
GenAI spending bubble? Definitely 'maybe' says ServiceNow It won't generate hundreds of million of dollars for customers tomorrow, and there's a 'lot of noise' from tech industry AI + ML04 Sep 2024 | 34
OpenAI allegedly wants TSMC 1.6nm for in-house AI chip debut Another job for Broadcom, then AI + ML04 Sep 2024 | 5
DoJ reportedly advances Nvidia antitrust probe Updated Uncle Sam apparently worried GPU giant may be punishing customers who shop around AI + ML04 Sep 2024 | 5
Intel's 120 TOPS Lunar Lake AI PC chips have landed And all it took was some good old fashioned outsourcing to TSMC AI + ML03 Sep 2024 | 13
Data watchdog fines Clearview AI $33M for 'illegal' data collection Selfie-scraper again claims European law does not apply to it AI + ML03 Sep 2024 | 14
AI firms propose 'personhood credentials' … to fight AI It's going to take more than CAPTCHA to prove you're real AI + ML03 Sep 2024 | 55
Alibaba Cloud boosts failure prediction with logfile timestamps Machine learning helps, but more data catches more faults - so Chinese champ has shared its data Devops03 Sep 2024 | 2
One of China's best GPU prospects admits it's failing, lays off workers Needs new investors to get beyond current modest products Systems03 Sep 2024 | 8
Canadian artist wants Anthropic AI lawsuit corrected Interview Tim Boucher objects to the mischaracterization of his work in authors' copyright claim AI + ML31 Aug 2024 | 17
GPT apps fail to disclose data collection, study finds Researchers say that implementing Actions omit privacy details and expose info AI + ML31 Aug 2024 | 3
Have we stopped to think about what LLMs actually model? Claims about much-hyped tech show flawed understanding of language and cognition, research argues AI + ML30 Aug 2024 | 152
Nvidia admits Blackwell defect, but Jensen Huang pledges Q4 shipments as promised The setback won't stop us from banking billions, CFO insists Systems29 Aug 2024 | 3
Fintech outfit Klarna swaps humans for AI by not replacing departing workers Insists it's not cutting jobs and pays harder-to-automate people more with AI savings AI + ML29 Aug 2024 | 17
Brit teachers are getting AI sidekicks to help with marking and lesson plans Updated Isn't the education system in enough trouble already? AI + ML29 Aug 2024 | 34
Nvidia's growth slows to a mere 122 percent but it’s still topping expectations Still growing in China, ramping Hopper prods and predicting Blackwell billions soon Cloud Infrastructure Month29 Aug 2024 | 10
Google trains a GenAI model to simulate Doom's game engine in real-ish time The proof of concept shows promise despite big limitations AI + ML28 Aug 2024 | 27
Elon Musk reins in Grok AI bot to stop election misinformation Because who needs yet another lawsuit? AI + ML28 Aug 2024 | 35
Copper's reach is shrinking so Broadcom is strapping optics directly to GPUs What good is going fast if you can't get past the next rack? Networks28 Aug 2024 | 3
Tenstorrent's Blackhole chips boast 768 RISC-V cores and almost as many FLOPS Hot Chips Shove 32 of 'em in a box and you've got nearly 24 petaFLOPS of FP8 perf Systems27 Aug 2024 | 6
The future of AI/ML depends on the reality of today – and it's not pretty Opinion The return of Windows Recall is more than a bad flashback AI + ML27 Aug 2024 | 112
Microsoft Bing Copilot accuses reporter of crimes he covered Hallucinating AI models excel at defamation AI + ML26 Aug 2024 | 80
A quick guide to tool-calling in large language models Hands on A few lines of Python is all it takes to get a model to use a calculator or even automate your hypervisor Systems26 Aug 2024 | 40
Buying a PC for local AI? These are the specs that actually matter Feature If you guessed TOPS and FLOPS, that's only half right AI + ML25 Aug 2024 | 30
Benchmarks show even an old Nvidia RTX 3090 is enough to serve LLMs to thousands For 100 concurrent users, the card delivered 12.88 tokens per second—just slightly faster than average human reading speed Systems23 Aug 2024 | 12
China AI devs use cloud services to game US chip sanctions Orgs are accessing restricted tech, raising concerns about more potential loopholes AI + ML23 Aug 2024 | 6