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
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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 | 7
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
VMware Explore25 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
'We believe a more balanced approach is necessary'
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
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