ai and ml OpenAI Codex bombards SSDs with needless write operations, costing millions Clumsy logging implementation squirrels away data without regard for cost
AI + ML Anthropic reimagines Claude in Slack as nosy, always-on agentic AI coworker The Claude in Slack app is dead, long live Claude in Slack
Security Mythos discovers 'Squidbleed,' a memory leak that's gone undetected since Clinton era Plus more blasts from the past: NetWare, FTP, and HTTP
Security OpenAI: Yoo-hoo, look over here, we do that security stuff too! A plethora of pwn-prevention, including a 'Patch The Planet' pledge
AI + ML Anthropic's Mythos mess just keeps getting more complicated It sure seems like the Trump administration is just bullying Anthropic for not acquiescing to its every move, and it's the cybersecurity community who'll suffer for it
ai and ml Devs in the trenches are stressed from the mandate to automate everything, but Render thinks it can help San Francisco plays host to hosting company's Localhost conference
ai + ml Midjourney pivots from AI image generation to body scanning medical spa where patients bathe in 'golden light' The underlying technology is real...and borrowed from a partner the company failed to mention
AI AND ML Committed skeptic finds himself warming to new Amazon AI products that actually don't suck Ed's note to Corey: Blink once if you're safe, twice if you're in danger
The AI tipping point: where enterprise AI runs at scale PARTNER CONTENT: AI's cloud journey homeward bound: enterprises prefer private clouds for scaling AI workloads.
AI AND ML AI nose uses 'Smell Language Model' to sniff out signs of disease Sampling patients' breath may save lives and emergency room resources
AI + ML Estonia intends to recognize AI agents with digital IDs I am not a number! I am a free agent (that just happens to have a number)
AI AND ML Smelly config files will make your agents waste tokens, researchers warn Researchers urge developers to see that less is more when it comes to instructions
AI and ML Developers build the best tools for developers – and are now defanging the AI menace Fear and even grief are natural reactions to machines that do your job. The next reactions – acceptance and innovation – are more useful
ai + ml The new Siri makes one of Apple's most convenient OS features a cumbersome mess Goodbye, useful Spotlight; hello force-fed Apple intelligence bloatware that feels distressingly like Google AI Overviews
AI AND ML Python dev saved from disaster by intuition... and AI I'm sorry, Dave. I can't install that repo that will totally hose your system
science AI and brain-computer interface allow speechless ALS patient to work a full-time job The hardware isn't new, but a UC Davis research team's machine learning-powered method of translating brain activity in an ALS patient into sentences with 92% accuracy is
AI AND ML ERP users may soon get ahead by going headless, says Rimini Street boss Look to AI agents and open source to escape the vendor-driven upgrade cycle
Inside the cloud's new agentic AI-ready, Arm-powered foundation PARTNER CONTENT: From hyperscalers to enterprises, performance-per-watt and system-level efficiency are redefining the cloud compute foundation
AI + ML A modest proposal: Reformat everything to make documents more palatable to AI What's up, DocLang?
security Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' prompt, not jailbreak, says researcher According to the one person who actually read the research paper
AI AND ML Anthropic reserves right to check ID for Claude subs How can I help you today? Present your papers to begin
Europe's AI paralysis has a solution - and it starts with a semantic twin PARTNER CONTENT: Onix's Wingspan platform promises to move enterprises from pilot purgatory to governed, enterprise-wide AI deployment in weeks, not years
AI and ML Salesforce reels in customer support AI specialist Fin for $3.6B Support bot maker claims its AI agents can resolve three-quarters of customer queries without human help
AI AND ML US clampdown on Anthropic models sends EU sovereignty surge into overdrive Brussels says access curbs prove Europe needs greater technological independence
AI and ML UK AI hiring surges as firms seek people to babysit the bots PwC says AI hiring jumped 61 percent despite wider slowdown in vacancies, with employers increasingly looking for workers who can use AI rather than build it
Ai and ml Google found liable for bad AI Overview results. Let’s play Truth Or Consequences Hush. children, what’s that sound? Has the flood gates’ key been found?
AI AND ML AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter From Java tests to Shai-Hulud, bots keep proving they'll swallow anything you feed them
ai and ml NanoClaw now armed with JFrog for safer packages AI agents can't be trusted, so don't give them dangerous powers
AI and ML KPMG's AI report becomes an accidental demo of AI hallucinations GPTZero claims only 5 of the report's 45 citations matched their sources, raising questions about how the Big Four's AI study was assembled
AI and ml Met Police boss threatens to cut 700 frontline jobs after Palantir deal blocked Commissioner Mark Rowley says automation savings are now 'at risk'
ai and ml Claude is ready for its corporate close-up IDC says recent moves show Anthropic racing to meet enterprise requirements
ai and ml Everyone hates frontier AI labs, says Palantir boss 'Enterprises are fed up,' says Alex Karp, because LLM makers 'want to tokenmax' instead of understanding enterprise needs
AI AND ML Anthropic recruits army to sell Claude to nonprofits Join Claude Corps, see the world, spread the gospel of AI
ai and ml Google's new open-weights model brings image-generation tricks to AI text generation Language model builds on diffusion tech to boost output performance by up to 4x, claims Chocolate Factory
offbeat Hand-cranked AI box lets you get a workout while you wait for answers We're all familiar with AI cranks by now, but what about crank-powered AIs?
Cost per sample? Try cost per attempt PARTNER CONTENT Your genomics pipeline is probably failing 30% of the time and you're paying for all of it
AI and ML OpenAI could go from AI pioneer to AI's BlackBerry, says Forrester As OpenAI courts investors and chases enterprise customers, Forrester says today's AI leader could become tomorrow's cautionary tale
AI + ML Memory and personalization make AI more likely to tell you what you want to hear A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, particularly for enterprise applications
AI AND ML It blocked us at 'hello!' Anthropic Fable 5 refusing innocuous prompts Hyper-vigilant safety classifiers turn Fable into cautionary tale
AI AND ML Brit workers waste nearly six hours a week 'botsitting' Productivity gains lost as staff spoon-feed AI and correct its cock-ups
AI AND ML Anthropic spins a Fable of a tamer, safer Mythos Company also changes data retention policy
ai + ml It's do or die for Apple AI WWDC announcements earned tempered praise from analysts, with an emphasis on the word 'if'
ZTE Demonstrates Integrated AI, Connectivity and Digital Utility Technologies at TNB Energy Transition Conference PARTNER CONTENT: Driving Grid Modernization and Energy Transition in Malaysia Through Advanced AI and Smart Infrastructure Solutions
AI AND ML NHS prescribes half a million Copilot licenses for its paperwork headache After a trial claimed chatbot saved staff 43 minutes a day, NHS England has decided it's time to supersize the experiment
AI and ML Brit fraudsters using AI to doctor 'evidence' in motor insurance claims Policy-holders increasingly turn fender benders into much more by sprinkling in their favorite AI chatbots, Aviva says
AI and ML Department of Work and Pensions' answer to AI job fears is a bot to polish your CV Whitehall says Work Assistant will help jobseekers apply around the clock – provided employers don't mind machine-written applications
systems Our systems editor flew all the way to Taiwan and still couldn't get away from AI Every show now is an AI show, and that included this year's Computex
AI and ML Agentic AI hype races ahead as enterprises remain stuck in pilot mode Most orgs remain trapped between flashy demos and real-world deployment, despite 75% saying adoption is racing ahead
AI AND ML 'It would be good for the world' to slow down AI sprints, Anthropic says The plea for caution comes the same week it beat AI archrival OpenAI to filing for an IPO
AI and ML Canada wants to make its own AI, break free from US bots Another ally questions reliance on American AI
ai and ml AI heavyweights warn their tech could help terrorists develop bioweapons Scientists and industry leaders push for mandatory DNA synthesis screening
ai and ml Benevolent dictator Zuck will give Meta staff 30-minute breaks from keylogging privacy assault Tech biz teaching AI to use computers by slurping staff activity
Software 'Please do not vibe f--- up this software': Broken backups spark AI coding row in rsync project Users probe backup failures find Claude-assisted commits. Veteran engineer retorts: "I did not just vibe-code 'convert test suite to python'."
AI and ML Intel's mysterious new datacenter GPU is what Nvidia's Rubin CPX nearly was Nvidia's prefill accelerator was shelved, but Chipzilla's Crescent Island could fill the void
AI AND ML No longer just a Copilot, Microsoft's AI wants to take the wheel Always-on agent promises to keep work moving, provided you trust it with practically everything
AI and ml AI agents can now manipulate your organization. Are you ready? SPONSORED POST: Agents with hands require a hands-on policy
AI AND ML Trump's AI E-(I)-O could let feds pick winners and losers Government gets a say in 'trusted partner' access, and that worries policy experts
ai and ml Cisco sings Mythos' praises - but doesn't say how many bugs the model uncovered Meanwhile, Anthropic adds 150 partners to Project Glasswing
AI and ML Claude celebrates Anthropic's stock market float with blockbuster ... outage Chatbot has no respect for timing of its maker's financial announcement
AI and ML Intel and pals cram 36,864 CPU cores into a 100kW rack while chasing the agentic AI dragon Meanwhile, Intel and SambaNova's disaggregated inference blueprint lands its first customer
AI and ML Angry devs vow to flee GitHub Copilot as metered billing takes hold '16% of my monthly Pro+ allowance. Gone. For basically nothing'
AI and ML Anthropic, now atop the AI bubble, files for its IPO First it tops OpenAI's valuation, then it beats Altman to the IPO punch
AI and ML Netflix wiz creates app to slash AI bills, then open sources it Project Headroom could save you big money, too
AI and ML QEMU mulls relaxing AI contribution ban Red Hat engineer reckons the balance of risk has shifted, but core code stays off limits
AI and ML Snowflake buys Natoma to help freeze out rogue agents It is the database titan’s sixth acquisition announcement since June 2025
AI and ML Anthropic co-founder hallucinates ghost in the machine The nature of AI is unnatural. It's not intelligent. It's not human
AI + ML Rogue states are putting AI agents to work on sanctions evasion RUSI warns fake IDs, shell companies, and crypto laundering could soon operate at industrial scale
SaaS SaaS outfit ClickUp promises seven-figure salaries for survivors of 22 percent staff purge CEO jumps on the ‘We must be fit for the AI future’ bandwagon
AI AND ML Google has seriously leaned into AI enshittification lately Could the Chocolate Factory's mission to reshape the web backfire?
Security Cisco used AI to write security incident reports, with mixed results You’ll need a lot of detailed prompts to get solid output - and even then it may have errors and typos
AI AND ML Gemini accused of 30,000-line code purge and fake recovery report Developer: AI coding agent broke production and generated fictitious post-mortem paperwork after the rollback
Security Even Claude agrees: hole in its sandbox was real and dangerous Another day, another AI bug silently fixed with no CVE and no public disclosure
Columnists Utah tells porn sites to take the P out of VPNs, and it's their fault that they can't Governments can't touch VPNs technically or commercially. The mess they'll make if they try will be off the scale
Devops Google reimburses Register sources who were victims of API fraud But it's holding fast on auto-expanding customers' budgets
AI and ML Sick and wrong: Ontario auditors find doctors' AI note takers routinely blow basic facts 60% of evaluated AI Scribe systems mixed up prescribed drugs in patient notes, auditors say
Personal Tech AI to infest eight in ten premium phones within two years And Counterpoint sees fad spreading from pricey handsets to smart rings and earbuds too... whether you asked for it or not
On-Prem Americans would rather have a nuclear plant in their backyard than a datacenter AI and the bit barns that power it have developed a serious PR problem
Columnists AI will soon be capable of telling convincing lies That's fine when playing poker, but less useful when we trust LLMs with serious work like finding software flaws
aI + ML Microsoft researchers find AI models and agents can't handle long-running tasks An intern who failed this much would be shown the door
AI + ML China's agentic AI policy wants to keep humans in the loop PLUS: Robot becomes Buddhist monk in Korea; TikTok spending $25bn in Thailand; Baidu floating chip biz; and more!
AI + ML Yes, local LLMs are ready to ease the compute strain In The Register's Kettle podcast we discuss how Anthropic might be thinking about space to ease computing pain, but Claude Code on your laptop is way more practical
aI + mL Google tweaks Chrome AI privacy wording, insists processing stays on-device Deletion of a longstanding privacy assurance sparks concerns
AI + ML GPT-5.5 may burn fewer tokens, but it always burns more cash It’s not just gas prices skyrocketing. Frontier-model pricing keeps climbing too
Systems AMD puts out new slottable GPU for AI-curious enterprises MI350P packs 144 GB of HBM3e and up to 4.6 petaFLOPS of FP4 grunt into a dual slot card
AI + ML EU hits snooze on AI Act rules after industry backlash Brussels says it's simplification, critics may call it retreat
AI Chrome silently installs a 4 GB local LLM on your computer You did remember to opt out of AI, didn't you?
AI Using AI to click around on a website burns 45x as many tokens as just using APIs For AI agents, seeing is expensive
AI + ML Claude hitches ride on SpaceX's datacenter capacity Compute from Colossus leads to relaxed limits
AI + mL Arctic Wolf kicks 250 employees out of the pack to save money for AI Cuts appear to hit sales, product, and marketing, accounting for under 10% of staff
AI AI layoffs backfire as cutting staff doesn't cut it, firms warned Replacing meatbags with failure prone agents isn't the gold mine some CEOs hoped for
AI + ML OpenAI exec says company hopes to burn $50B of somebody else's money on compute this year If the numbers are large enough, perhaps we won't question the math
AI + ML Brit mathematician lets AI agent loose with credit card – cue password leaks, CAPTCHA chaos and more
AI + ML ZTE ensures 2026 Jiangsu Football City League opening ceremony with 5G-A, powering robot traffic police debut
AI + ML DeepSeek's new models are so efficient they'll run on a toaster ... by which we mean Huawei's NPUs
AI + ML Forget call centers, local energy prices mean Britain's latest offshoring wave is AI projects