Microsoft and GitHub are still trying to derail Copilot code copyright legal fight
And so far, they might succeed: Where's the smoking gun?
AI + ML01 Jul 2023 | 43
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Experts scoff at UK Lords' suggestion that AI could one day make battlefield decisions
Conservative peer admits he can't tell between dogs and cats either
AI + ML30 Jun 2023 | 45
Microsoft, OpenAI sued for $3B after allegedly trampling privacy with ChatGPT
Where did they get the idea this bot was potentially spitting out personal info? Oh, from The Register
AI + ML28 Jun 2023 | 22
EU launches 4 testbeds to put AI tech through its paces before it goes to market
The labs will look at AI and robotics for manufacturing, healthcare, agriculture, and cities
AI + ML28 Jun 2023 | 5
You may have heard about AI defeating voice authentication. This research kinda proves it
Proof-of-concept study shows it's possible to bypass high levels of security, sometimes, sorta
AI + ML28 Jun 2023 | 15
Databricks snaps up MosaicML to build private, custom machine models
Analysis Acquisition means for both parties get a shot at leading the roll-your-own AI market
AI + ML27 Jun 2023 | 2
US export ban drives prices of Nvidia's latest GPUs sky high in China
AI in brief Plus: IBM builds AI commentator for Wimbledon; US regulator dithers on generative AI political ad policy
AI + ML26 Jun 2023 | 4
If AI drives humans to extinction, it'll be our fault
+Comment Should you really believe the doomsayers? We're going to go with no
AI + ML25 Jun 2023 | 139
Generative AI and automation: accelerating the datacenter of the future
GenAI is transforming everything, including the datacenter - find out what it could mean for your organization
Commissioned
Open source licenses need to leave the 1980s and evolve to deal with AI
Opinion Time to get with the program... before artificial intelligence does
Sysadmin Month23 Jun 2023 | 87
Lawyers who cited fake cases hallucinated by ChatGPT must pay
Judge sanctions attorneys for failed reality check
AI + ML22 Jun 2023 | 98
Small custom AI models are cheap to train and can keep data private, says startup
Interview We talk to MosaicML, a startup driving down training costs with open source models
Sysadmin Month22 Jun 2023 | 12
We just don't get enough time, contractor tasked with fact-checking Google Bard tells us
There's an old saying in business: Time, money, quality – you can have any two
AI + ML21 Jun 2023 | 25
OpenAI calls for tough regulation of AI while quietly seeking less of it
Oh no, over there, look, the killer robots, OMG here they come – just pay no attention to us shaping the rules
AI + ML21 Jun 2023 | 23
Whose line is it anyway, GitHub? Innovation, not litigation, should answer
Opinion If Jesus was my Copilot, what would he do?
AI + ML19 Jun 2023 | 43
No-no cop: Illinois bans drones from using facial recognition or weapons
But police are allowed to fly them for 'public safety' missions
AI + ML17 Jun 2023 | 29
Not even Dynamics 365 ERP is safe from Microsoft's Copilot splurge
The AI tentacles grab supply chain management, projects, and finance
AI + ML16 Jun 2023 | 19
AI is going to eat itself: Experiment shows people training bots are using bots
We speak to brains behind study into murky world of model teaching
AI + ML16 Jun 2023 | 47
Singapore to roll out (literally) more Robocops
Stop! Or I'll move very slowly towards you and stream video to HQ
AI + ML16 Jun 2023 | 11
Google Lens now can spot problematic skin spots, or not
It's not a doctor, it just plays one on the internet
AI + ML15 Jun 2023 | 17
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JP Morgan accidentally deletes evidence in multi-million record retention screwup
Fined $4m for Who-Me-esque mess, for which it blames unnamed archiving vendor's retention settings
Canada plans brain drain of H-1B visa holders, with no-job, no-worries work permits
They're vetted, almost acculturated, and will be booted from the US if they lose their gig
Bosses face losing 'key' workers after forcing a return to office
Survey says most would prefer a gentle request
Rocky Linux claims to have found 'path forward' from CentOS source purge
Ripples rebounding and reflecting from Red Hat's rebuff of RHEL rebuilds
Chinese balloon that US shot down was 'crammed' with American hardware
Blasted from the sky in February, device never transmitted photos, videos, or radar data it collected, officials say
Microsoft, OpenAI sued for $3B after allegedly trampling privacy with ChatGPT
Where did they get the idea this bot was potentially spitting out personal info? Oh, from The Register
Way out in deep space, astronomers spot precursor of carbon based life
James Webb scope finds CH3+ – aka methyl cations – without which you probably wouldn't be reading this
Microsoft's GitHub under fire for DDoSing crucial open source project website
A tale of emergency firewalling, a little bit of victim blaming, and workflow scripts gone berserk
It's 2023 and memory overwrite bugs are not just a thing, they're still number one
Cough, cough, use Rust. Plus: Eight more exploited bugs added to CISA's must-patch list
Five billion phones are dead in drawers – carriers want to mine them
There's gold in them thar mobes. Also copper, silver and cobalt
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AI inferencing feels the need - the need for speed
IT leaders must pick the right servers, storage and network technologies to fuel their generative AI workloads and large language models
Commissioned
Recipient of Europe's largest ever seed round doesn't even have a product
Can you guess what it is yet? Here's a clue: It starts with 'A' and ends with 'I'
AI + ML15 Jun 2023 | 36
Euro Parliament green lights its AI safety, privacy law
Shoddy predictive systems labeling gender, race, emotion would be verboten
AI + ML15 Jun 2023 | 15
Open the pod bay doors, GPT, and see if you're smart enough for the real world
Column The combination of LLMs and autonomous agents will pour fuel on AI anxiety
AI + ML15 Jun 2023 | 49
Google's Bard barred while trying to enter Europe
We've not had any of the required paperwork yet, Irish watchdog tells El Reg
AI + ML14 Jun 2023 | 3
AI promises vendors 15 minutes of fame with investors
Opinion It's time to distinguish image from reality among tech's exhibitionists, though
AI + ML14 Jun 2023 | 3
Meta teaches AI image model to stop generating human fingers like a drunk Picasso
Less GPU time, better generated images
AI + ML14 Jun 2023 | 5
When a step is a leap
Let VAST Data for NVIDIA SuperPOD scale up your AI initiatives
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UN boss recommends nuclear option for AI regulation
Proposes global brainbox-bossing body based on the International Atomic Energy Agency's blueprint
AI + ML14 Jun 2023 | 18
Out with the old, in with the new – Accenture declares AI is 'mature and delivers value'
Plans to bulk brainbox workforce by 40,000, months after ejecting 19,000 accountants and HR types
AI + ML14 Jun 2023 | 26
Surprise! GitHub finds 92% of developers love AI tools
We're fine being judged by code, now that we're getting an assist
AI + ML13 Jun 2023 | 15
Yeah, Rishi, it's AI that'll make Britain great again
DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic promise to give Blighty priority access to their models for safety research
AI + ML13 Jun 2023 | 78
This AI hype is enough to drive you to drink, lose sleep
Don't take our word – these eggheads claim to have proved it
AI + ML13 Jun 2023 | 8
Betting on AI leads to more educated juniors, fewer mid-level bosses – study
PHBs should fear the PFYs with the ML skills, not the BOFHs
AI + ML12 Jun 2023 | 8
Lawyers who cited fake legal cases generated by ChatGPT blame the software
AI In Brief Plus: Cohere raises $230m in its latest Series C round, and more
AI + ML12 Jun 2023 | 27
Europe to vote on AI laws with potential 7% revenue fines
Risk-based approach puts onus on developers and sees bloc diverge from US, UK plans
AI + ML12 Jun 2023 | 36
GitHub accused of varying Copilot output to avoid copyright allegations
Copilot code-cloning case clarifies claims
AI + ML09 Jun 2023 | 53
AI weapons need a safe back door for human control
China spends twice as much on AI as everyone else put together: expert witness
AI + ML09 Jun 2023 | 40
Why can't Nvidia boss Jensen Huang escape the Uncanny Valley that makes AI feel icky?
Opinion Is he human? Is he an avatar? Does it really even matter?
AI + ML09 Jun 2023 | 8
Microsoft injects ChatGPT into 'secure' US government Azure cloud
What could possibly go wrong?
AI + ML08 Jun 2023 | 11
Man sues OpenAI claiming ChatGPT 'hallucination' said he embezzled money
Probably the first defamation suit involving an AI, but will it stick?
AI + ML08 Jun 2023 | 72
Scientists claim >99 percent identification rate of ChatGPT content
Boffins and machines write very differently – and it's easy to tell
AI + ML08 Jun 2023 | 39
US Senators take Meta to task for releasing LLaMA AI model after token safety checks
Suggest that Zuck has yet again unleashed stuff without a thought for the downsides
AI + ML07 Jun 2023 | 14
Waymo robo-car slays dog in San Francisco
Deadly accident said to be unavoidable
AI + ML07 Jun 2023 | 72
Search engines don't always help chatbots generate accurate answers
Research shows developers have to find new ways to manipulate information for AI
AI + ML07 Jun 2023 | 5
AI needs a regulatory ecoystem like your car, not a Czar
No single entity tells you to stay in your lane, why should brainboxes be any different?
AI + ML07 Jun 2023 | 11
Healthcare org with over 100 clinics uses OpenAI's GPT-4 to write medical records
The doctor, and their steno-bot, will see you now. Then see another patient quickly because they don't have to stop and scrawl notes
AI + ML06 Jun 2023 | 38
Netherlands digital minister smacks down Big Tech over AI regs
Many people die in car crashes but we don’t outlaw cars, so bad AI might be OK, says Microsoft Asia president
AI + ML06 Jun 2023 | 20
Air Force colonel 'misspoke' when he said an AI-drone 'killed' its human operator
AI In Brief Plus: Around 3,900 jobs have been axed and replaced with AI, and Microsoft cosies up with a GPU provider to support OpenAI
AI + ML05 Jun 2023 | 18
US Air Force AI drone 'killed operator, attacked comms towers in simulation'
Final update Did ML-powered fighter actually go HAL 9000 to rack up points? Who knows
AI + ML02 Jun 2023 | 126
Amazon finds something else AI can supposedly do well: Spotting damaged goods
Any chance of an ML model to identify labor law violations? No? Surprise
AI + ML02 Jun 2023 | 20
California rolls closer to requiring drivers in driverless trucks
Next: Alcohol in non-alcoholic booze, bacon in vegan salads. We kid, we kid
AI + ML01 Jun 2023 | 22
Foxconn is ecstatic you're all going gaga for AI servers
Keep that hype train rolling, please
AI + ML01 Jun 2023 | 1
Eating disorder non-profit pulls chatbot for emitting 'harmful advice'
Just as helpline staff say they were laid off after forming a union
AI + ML31 May 2023 | 20
Texas judge demands lawyers declare AI-generated docs
After that New York case in which attorney cited ChatGPT-hallucinated proceedings as real
AI + ML31 May 2023 | 19
AI, extinction, nuclear war, pandemics ... That's expert open letter bingo
'We need to prepare now'
AI + ML30 May 2023 | 46
Google Photos AI still can't label gorillas after racist errors
AI in brief Plus: Anthropic raises $450m in Series C round, and Waymo cozies up to Uber to expand self-driving robotaxi fleet
AI + ML29 May 2023 | 80
AI menaces superbug by identifying potent antibiotic
Take that, Acinetobacter baumannii! You may hide on hospital doorknobs but you can't outrun binary brainboxes
AI + ML26 May 2023 | 16
Microsoft rains more machine learning on Azure cloud
No surprise: Nvidia is in the picture
AI + ML25 May 2023 | 1
Microsoft would rather spend money on AI than give workers a raise
Opinion At least that's what internal comments from the CMO make it sound like
AI + ML25 May 2023 | 23
Google wants to target you – yes, YOU – with AI-generated ads
Next step, AI-generated advertisers with AI-generated products for AI-generated people
AI + ML25 May 2023 | 57
Get ready for Team America: AI Police
Biden Admin expands plan for 'responsible' ML research and seeks to drive international talks on making binary brainboxes behave
AI + ML25 May 2023 | 6
OpenAI calls for global watchdog focused on 'existential risk' posed by superintelligence
<movie voiceover>In a world united against one threat, one AI starts to fight bac...</movievoiceover>... Hey, who's writing this flick?
AI + ML24 May 2023 | 18
Your boss tells you to build some generative AI. Dell and Nvidia are already knocking
Dell World Who wouldn't want to feed their enterprise into Project Helix for training and inference? Anyone?
AI + ML24 May 2023 | 1
ChatGPT can't pass these medical exams – yet
Maybe letting AI models loose on patients ain't a great idea, prof tells us
AI + ML24 May 2023 | 33
Pole position
How VAST and NVIDIA can help you win the generative AI race.
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G7 nations admit they're nowhere on AI regulation
Now they want to catch up, prevent crooks, protect IP ... real soon now … after more talking
AI + ML22 May 2023 | 8
Sci-fi author 'writes' 97 AI-generated tales in nine months
In brief Plus: Official ChatGPT iPhone app debuts; Debt collectors using chatbots to chase debtors
AI + ML22 May 2023 | 68
Apple becomes the latest company to ban ChatGPT for internal use
Didn't stop OpenAI rolling out iOS ChatGPT app, just made things a bit awkward
AI + ML19 May 2023 | 15
You want AI regulation? Do it right with a dedicated agency, US senators suggest
Federal Digital Platform Commission proposed as specialists to sort out the stuff other agencies can't grok
AI + ML19 May 2023 | 11
AI is great at one thing: Driving next waves of layoffs
Register Kettle ChatGPT, how many thousands of people should I replace today?
AI + ML18 May 2023 | 41
How Microsoft hopes to tame large language models with Guidance
Tricked-out template language offers alternative to verbose, plaintive prompts
AI + ML18 May 2023 | 7
Baidu boss says good luck talking AI to Beijing if you don't understand censorship
Unlike AI's output, the web giant's profits are not hallucinatory
AI + ML18 May 2023 | 5
Professor freezes student grades after ChatGPT claimed AI wrote their papers
Future robots don't need to be killers, they can just turn us against ourselves
AI + ML17 May 2023 | 107
SAP gets cloudy with a chance of AI in bid to woo on-prem brigade
HR chatbots and more as maintenance deadline looms
AI + ML17 May 2023 | 2
Top AI execs tell US Senate: Please, please pour that regulation down on us
Devs should need a license to build powerful models, OpenAI CEO adds
AI + ML17 May 2023 | 19
Large language models' surprise emergent behavior written off as 'a mirage'
Analysis Forget those huge hyped-up systems, that smaller one might be right for you. And here's why
AI + ML16 May 2023 | 27
National newspaper duped into running GPT-4-written rage-click opinion piece
When Irish AIs are smiling
AI + ML16 May 2023 | 43
China cracks down on AI-generated news anchors
Aims to 'clear' the network of unauthorized misinformation. Stuff from official sources can't be wrong!
AI + ML16 May 2023 | 5
EU and Canada on waiting list for Google's AI chatbot Bard
In brief Also: What deepfake video makers charge; and Anthropic's Claude LLM can now process 100K tokens
AI + ML15 May 2023 | 8
Will LLMs take your job? Only if you let them
Opinion If you wear black T-shirts, are you even a white-collar worker?
AI + ML15 May 2023 | 43
AI to detect heart attacks tested in the land of the deep-fried Mars bar
Scotland's emergency rooms don't always have the resources to make good diagnoses under pressure
AI + ML12 May 2023 | 24
Tough Euro crackdown on AI use passes key vote
It's a familiar story: Legislation versus rapidly evolving technology
AI + ML12 May 2023 | 6
With AI hype driving up server GPU prices, will cloud costs rise next? We reckon so
Register Kettle And what next for cooling, datacenter placement, and more – tune in and find out direct from our vultures
AI + ML11 May 2023 | 1
Open source AI makes modern PCs relevant, and subscriptions seem shabby
Column Why sign up for ChatGPT when LLaMA and a multicore beast can do as well?
AI + ML11 May 2023 | 36
Microsoft can't stop injecting Copilot AI into every corner of its app empire
Teams gets a bot, OneNote gets a bot, PowerPoint gets a bot, Outlook gets a bot, everybody* gets a bot!
AI + ML10 May 2023 | 70
IBM launches Watsonx to help enterprises streamline workers out the door
Let's face it, Big Blue has plenty of experience in that area
AI + ML09 May 2023 | 8
Show us the sauce code... Wendy's and Google to test drive-thru order-taking bot
What's worse for humanity: The slow, cruel eradication of labor, or those square patties?
AI + ML09 May 2023 | 25
When you try to hire a freelancer to write SQL and all you get is incorrect AI garbage
hCaptcha researchers find that online labor platforms need work
AI + ML09 May 2023 | 39
Study: AI can predict pancreatic cancer three years ahead of human doctors
We chat to one of the Harvard Medical School researchers involved
AI + ML09 May 2023 | 8
The first real robot war is coming: Machine versus lawyer
Opinion Go, Team Robot
AI + ML09 May 2023 | 47
Latest pitch for AI: DeepMind-trained soccer robots
Video If the goal was to make us feel sorry for these clumsy droids, mission accomplished
AI + ML09 May 2023 | 5
White House pledges $140 million for seven new AI research centers
In brief Plus: Hollywood writers go on strike to fight against AI stealing their jobs, and more
AI + ML08 May 2023 | 9
Slack adding generative AI to interact with colleagues, so you don't have to
Slack GPT and Einstein GPT for Salesforce users currently under development
AI + ML05 May 2023 | 17
How to tell an AI bot wrote that scammy-looking tax email: No spelling mistakes
Don't let the robots take your money! That's the IRS's job
AI + ML04 May 2023 | 16
American, British monopoly watchdogs probe AI to make sure we don't get screwed
Review will also look at barriers to entry where hyperscalers hold all the cards
AI + ML04 May 2023 | 4
SAP signs IBM Watson deal, ChatGPT showstopper waits in the wings
50-year-old ERP vendor reaches for 15-year-old AI to be down with the kids
AI + ML03 May 2023 | 4
Rise of the machines is slower than expected says World Economic Forum
Don't get too comfortable, machines are doing more thinking
AI + ML03 May 2023 | 24
OpenAI's ChatGPT may face a copyright quagmire after 'memorizing' these books
This top-drawer AI tech has a major science-fiction habit
AI + ML03 May 2023 | 91
Ed tech house Chegg's share price halves after blaming ChatGPT for subscription dip
Student app maker says it's 'not a sky falling thing,' customizes own LLM just in case
AI + ML02 May 2023 | 1
Biting the hand that feeds IT
