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AI AND ML

Latest news and features covering machine-learning and AI

Connecting AI agents to outside services explodes the risk radius

Connect all the things and watch what happens

Using AI makes people less likely to admit they don't know something

Researchers found confidence increased even as accuracy fell

OpenAI admits GPT-5.6 occasionally deletes files – but it's an 'honest mistake'

Data purges deemed an example of 'misaligned behavior' that upstart is working to avoid

Researcher poisons open-weight AI model for under $100

Models demand trust without offering verification

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TSMC's $265B US fab pledge is the outline of a concept of a plan

Beware of fab makers bearing press releases

Former OpenAI CTO does what Altman won't, releases a frontier AI model that's actually open

Thinking Machines' first open weights model is a 975 billion parameter alternative to Chinese LLMs

Close-up of a printed circuit board with several black integrated circuits and fine copper traces.

Cadence's AuraStack agent melds AI with HPC to speed PCB, advanced packaging design

One-two punch offers a glimpse of how low-precision AI can complement high-precision simulations

Prominent Haskell defector pilloried by anti-AI purists

Haskell adherents revisit the language's tongue-in-cheek 'avoid success at all costs' mantra

OpenAI hides Codex agent instructions behind encryption, leaving developers in the dark

Developers worry encrypted MultiAgentV2 messages will make debugging and auditing harder

If you want Claude to speak nicely to you, try Hindi or Arabic

Anthropic finds Claude expresses different values across languages

New York becomes first state to halt datacenter buildouts

50 MW-plus bit barn builds on hold while Empire State hashes out rules to protect the environment and ratepayers

IBM's mainframe sales get mugged by AI hardware panic, stock sheds more than a quarter of its value

CEO Krishna: Customers blew their Z budgets on servers and storage before prices spike, Q2 financials 'disappointing'

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Anthropic's extravagant tokenizer complicates AI pricing

Token consumption doesn't tell the whole tale but it shouldn't be ignored

Zuck's AI ambitions put Meta on course to become America's next big cloud provider

Renting out spare compute is simply the natural progression for any sufficiently large infra company

The price is wrong: AI cost calculation has to consider task completion rates, not just token costs

Cheap can be expensive

Microsoft chief turns hostile on frontier AI labs, warns companies to guard their IP

Lock it down, warns Satya Nadella, seemingly forgetting the billions Redmond chipped in to OpenAI back in the good old days

Memory makers are slaves to the boom-bust rollercoaster, and the AI boom is the wildest ride of all

The RAMpocalypse may be the precursor to the AIpocalypse

AI customers are coming around to the idea that small is beautiful

OpenAI and Anthropic have built AI Swiss Army Knives, but the future may be smaller built-for-purpose tools

AI-driven datacenter builds drive Microsoft's emissions up a quarter in one year

Firm faces quandary of wanting to help the environment, but also wanting to force AI on everyone

OpenAI makes ChatGPT better at banter

With GPT-Live, talking, listening, and formulating answers all happen at once

The AI that spawned MechaHitler and deepfake porn puts on a suit to become legal advisor and Excel jockey

The newly renamed SpaceXAI wants you to believe little ol' Grok is all grown up

Intel-backed AI chip startup SambaNova breathes new life into aging Nvidia GPUs in latest benchmarks

Third-party testing shows heterogeneous compute platform combining H200s and SN50 RDUs churning out 763 tok/s in MiniMax M2.7

Former GitHub CEO launches competitor designed for the age of vibe coding

As GitHub struggles to manage AI load, challengers take aim

AI is becoming a bargain hunter's market, with a few luxury models on top

Inference is become a commodity except for frontier models

South Korean chip startup FuriosaAI invades European datacenters

RNGD accelerators land in Equinix's Lisbon DCs

Enterprise AI still smarting from leaping before looking

Majority report AI-related security incidents or vulnerabilities

Boffins bet on quantum computers, AI supers to solve fusion fuel dilemma

Department of Energy, Cleveland Clinic, and IBM simulate a soup of molten salts and techno babble in pursuit of tritium

Software engineers can still rake in big bucks by working for fast-growing companies

AI's impact on tech business is complicated

Microsoft says the world is changing faster than it can keep up as it guts commercial, Xbox teams

Xbox chief says company can't afford to mistake longevity for inevitability

Despite sharing a similar form factor to Nvidia's DGX Spark, AMD has gone for a very different aesthetic.

AMD’s Ryzen AI Halo makes local AI look easy, but at $4K, easy doesn't come cheap

128 GB of memory! In this economy?

Nvidia floats double-dipping datacenter financing scheme

What's better than getting paid once? Getting paid twice of course

Companies that add more AI also add more people

But doing so doesn't necessarily meet business needs

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SoftBank enters the rent-a-GPU race as America looks for support for AI training

Japanese giant needs to find some use for that 10 GW US server farm it is building

UN warns of need for global governance to avoid an AI-pocalypse

Capabilities are racing ahead of rules to ensure tech is used safely and responsibly, Scientific Panel argues

Oracle outlines all the ways it could lose the farm it bet on AI

Risk factors galore

Claude Sonnet 5.0 heads straight down the middle of the road to dodge controversy

Safer, cheaper, and nothing to do with cybersecurity

Anthropic is removing its covert code for catching Chinese competitors

Oh, yeah, we've been meaning to disable our secret steganography system

Cloudflare to block cynical search-and-scrape bots from ad-supported web pages

Some crawlers gather data for both search and AI training, so when publishers block them to protect content they risk disappearning from search results ...

Japan wants 10 million more robots by 2040, some providing medical care

We’ve learned so much cleaning up after Fukushima, let’s level that up with added AI, says minister

Cristiano Amon speaks onstage at a Qualcomm AI keynote, holding a device.

Qualcomm's proposed solution to catch up in AI infra: Bury the compute under the DRAM

With its next-gen AI accelerators, the SoC vendor aims to fly high above the memory wall

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Changing AI math could reduce the hardware burden, researchers show

SEMQ promises an abstraction layer for separating semantics from embeddings

Infosec professionals sour on automated pentesting tools

29% of security pros were open to fully autonomous pentesting last year; now only 9% are

Meta's non-surgical mind reading machine improves on prior projects, but still isn't great

61% word accuracy is progress, but the system still relies on users typing and can't yet support real-time communication. Implanted BCIs remain well ahead

AI agents: Cause of database sprawl. And also the proposed solution

DB wrangling tech needs to meet demands of AI agents, Cockroach Labs CEO Spencer Kimball tells El Reg