VMware revenue bounces for Broadcom, chips were a little undercooked
CEO says market for non-AI silicon has bottomed out
Virtualization06 Sep 2024 | 1
AI + ML
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 |
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 | 8
Global powers sign AI pact promising to preserve human rights, democracy
No, Russia and China are not on the list
AI + ML05 Sep 2024 | 8
OpenAI co-founder's Safe Superintelligence startup inhales $1B in funding
No product? No problem!
AI + ML05 Sep 2024 | 20
Amazon congratulates itself for AI code that mostly works
Web services souk celebrates 'leader' designation for Q Developer
AI + ML05 Sep 2024 | 8
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 | 86
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 | 30
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 | 19
'Error' causes Alexa to endorse Kamala Harris, refuse to discuss Trump
Bot shouldn't have political opinions, says Amazon
Software04 Sep 2024 | 49
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 | 32
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 | 53
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
Popular
Admins wonder if the cloud was such a good idea after all
As AWS, Microsoft, and Google hike some prices, it's time to open up the ROI calculator
AT&T sues Broadcom for 'breaking' VMware support extension contract
Telco giant slams silicon-and-software shop for trying to bully it into buying software it doesn't want or need, at huge prices
The fingerpointing starts as cyber incident at London transport body continues
Network admins take a ride on the Fright Bus
Starlink U-turns, will block X in Brazil after all
Musk fought the law and the law won... for now
What is this computing industry anyway? The dawning era of 32-bit micros
Part 3 And you may ask yourself, 'How do I work this?' And you may ask yourself, 'Where is that large computer?'
Do look up! NASA unfurls massive shiny solar sail in orbit
60 years after Arthur C Clarke wrote Sunjammer, space agency catches up
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
Planned Parenthood confirms cyber-attack as RansomHub threatens to leak data
93GB of info feared pilfered in Montana by heartless crooks
White House seizes 32 domains, issues criminal charges in massive election-meddling crackdown
Russia has seemingly decided who it wants Putin the Oval Office
Palo Alto takes a big $500M bite out of IBM QRadar
Big Blue also shifts to Prisma SASE to secure its 250,000 workforce
STORIES
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 | 149
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 | 29
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 | 26
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 | 79
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
Devs at Asia's top messaging app drowned in Slack, tamed it with ChatGPT
LY Corp's QA team struggled to manage projects while wading through prolix posts
AI + ML23 Aug 2024 | 5
Chasing the AI dragon? Your IT might be circling the drain, IBM warns
Big Blue says companies are so obsessed, basic services are going to pot
AI + ML22 Aug 2024 | 18
AGI is on clients' radar but far from reality, says Gartner
Controversial concept may not even be a useful goal in computing
AI + ML22 Aug 2024 | 18
Top companies ground Microsoft Copilot over data governance concerns
Securiti's Jack Berkowitz polled 20-plus CDOs, and half have hit pause
AI + ML21 Aug 2024 | 43
Slack AI can be tricked into leaking data from private channels via prompt injection
Updated Whack yakety-yak app chaps rapped for security crack
AI + ML21 Aug 2024 | 21
Writers sue Anthropic for feeding 'stolen' copyrighted work into Claude
Another day, another lawsuit over how AI lands training sets
AI + ML20 Aug 2024 | 35
Alibaba and Tencent clouds see demand for CPUs level off, GPUs accelerate
Lenovo also cashes in on AI demand, without being able to turn it into profit
Off-Prem20 Aug 2024 |
Chinese chip equipment maker AMEC sues Pentagon for entity list removal
ASIA IN BRIEF Plus: China's richest man used to work for Google; Singtel profit jumps; most APAC governments don't have AI governance policies, and more
AI + ML19 Aug 2024 | 12
Who needs GitHub Copilot when you can roll your own AI code assistant at home
Hands on Here's how to get started with the open source tool Continue
AI + ML18 Aug 2024 | 28
California trims AI safety bill to stop tech heads from freaking out
Anthropic boss meanwhile reckons there's 'a good chance ... we'll be able to get models that are better than most humans at most things'
AI + ML16 Aug 2024 | 27
Gartner mages: Payback from office AI expected in around two years
Hype is peaking now and digital employee experience stuck in trough of disillusionment
AI + ML15 Aug 2024 | 43
AI stole my job and my work, and the boss didn't know – or care
Column Everyone knows automation will happen, which is why everyone needs proof of human involvement
AI + ML15 Aug 2024 | 117
Actors can license AI voice clones in union deal
Thesps at least get final say on what their doppelgängers will say
AI + ML15 Aug 2024 | 7
AI or bust? Only one part of US tech economy keeps growing, says analyst
Investors still shovelling money into AI but 'path to monetization' still far
AI + ML14 Aug 2024 | 7
Linux Foundation wades into AI as Open Model Initiative joins ranks
Penguins reiterate commitment to 'fostering open, collaborative' development, licensing
AI + ML13 Aug 2024 | 4
Who uses LLM prompt injection attacks IRL? Mostly unscrupulous job seekers, jokesters and trolls
Because apps talking like pirates and creating ASCII art never gets old
AI + ML13 Aug 2024 | 17
AI chatbots amplify creation of false memories, boffins reckon – or do they?
We can misremember it for you wholesale
AI + ML13 Aug 2024 | 14
Google-commissioned report claims early adopters already enjoying fruits of gen-AI labor
Analysis 43% of the time, it really, really works 45% of the time
AI + ML12 Aug 2024 | 47
UK monopoly police launch full blown probe of Amazon's Anthropic tie-up
Poor cloud titans, just trying to give a helping hand to AI startups valued at billions of dollars
AI + ML09 Aug 2024 | 5
What's going on with AMD funding a CUDA translation layer, then nuking it?
Analysis We guess the House of Zen wants all you HIP kids to ROCm out with its own runtimes instead
Software09 Aug 2024 | 10
All y'all love AI, right? Get ready for Gemini in Nest cameras, Google Assistant
And you're replacing Chromecast with TV Streamer? Great! That's a logical step for the evolving landscape of ...
Personal Tech06 Aug 2024 | 14
AMD hopes to unlock MI300’s full potential with fresh code
Devs invited to ROCm out with FP8 precision, quantize to their heart's delight
HPC06 Aug 2024 | 1
Nvidia's subscription software empire is taking shape
Comment $4,500 per GPU per year adds up pretty quick – even faster when you pay by the hour
Cloud Infrastructure Month06 Aug 2024 | 23
Elon Musk is suing OpenAI again, claims CEO Sam Altman ‘betrayed’ him
These two are going through a really, really bad breakup
AI + ML05 Aug 2024 | 21
What AI bubble? Groq rakes in $640M to grow inference cloud
In the gold rush, be the one handing out the shovels
Cloud Infrastructure Month05 Aug 2024 | 3
Keir Starmer says facial recognition tech is the answer to far-right riots
The technology remains highly controversial despite widespread rollout
Public Sector05 Aug 2024 | 292
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 | 20
Here we go again with more AI crime prediction for policing
Hold that thought, citizen
AI + ML01 Aug 2024 | 34
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 | 32
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 | 181
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 | 38
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 | 57
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
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 | 93
Video game actors strike because they fear an attack of the AI clones
You wouldn't download a performer
AI + ML26 Jul 2024 | 45
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
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