systems Altman-backed Volantis reveals plan to vault the memory wall by baking photonics into AI accelerators Who said you had to use wires to connect memory to compute?
security Anthropic's super bug-hunting model Mythos is hardcore good at math, as latest vuln under attack shows Exploitation attempts came from China-hosted IP, VulnCheck researcher says
on-prem Power approval set to delay Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter Grid connection awaits regulatory approval, putting planned 2027 customer delivery at risk
systems Nvidia debuts $4,999 DGX Spark with half the RAM and storage, amid memory crunch Meanwhile 128 GB version jumps to $6,950, nearly 75% above its launch price
ai and ml Pi coding agent pulls a 180 and adds MCP support To maintain minimalism, a new harness layer has been folded into a separate component
networks Stanford prof is beating the drum for a new protocol to replace TCP Homa is a rethink of networks for the AI age
public sector Hot Dog! America's new chatbot is packed with wieners Just ask America.gov and you'll receive a favorite July 4th food.
systems Huawei boss claims homegrown AI chip sales top Nvidia in China The chips may not be as advanced, but they won't get banned at a moment's notice, Eric Xu says
security Add one more AI worry to the nightmare scenario: self-replicating prompt injections It's a worm attack, AI-style
ai and ml Zuckerberg touts enterprise AI push because Meta would never do anything to damage your reputation New business unit to be led by former MongoDB CEO 'CJ' Desai
personal tech AMD's 192 GB Gorgon Halo prices might leave you petrified Regular pricing starts at $6,799 - all that memory doesn't come cheap
on-prem Schneider gives datacenter switchgear the software-defined treatment Equinix pilot promises faster deployment and over-the-air upgrades without downtime, provided the code behaves itself
ai and ml Investors are pricing in a 32.6% AI productivity boost for software engineers Economists turn stock movements into an estimate of anticipated gains – while warning that markets can get carried away
ai and ml AMD bets $8.2B that worlds matter more than words in AI AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li just co-founded spatial AI research company World Labs in 2024. Now it's joining AMD
columnists AWS needs to embrace its place as the Home Depot of AI infrastructure What's wrong with being a great wholesaler?
ai and ml French dev aims to solve bots' blindness so they can understand GUIs Because sometimes escaping your sandbox requires clicking a button
columnists Open source datacenters and open source thinking will undo self-inflicted DC damage Denial and distraction have served the bit barn barons very badly. Wise up
columnists Big AI's content problem: Take the work, keep the money The more we learn about how AI does business, the more unfair it looks
systems Google's TPUs to catch some rays in orbit next week Part of Project Suncatcher, the proof of concept aims to see how well lightly modified compute fares in orbit
personal tech Meta's new AI fidget is a ... Tamagotchi? We hope Zuck's Muse Charm doesn't die if you neglect it
os platforms CVE flood pushes Ubuntu onto weekly kernel release cycle AI-assisted bug hunting is helping pile up vulnerabilities faster than defenders can patch them, so Canonical is picking up the pace
security Google to critical infra orgs: Our AI scanners won't be evil, promise Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber and Wiz's Red Agent team up to protect hospitals, public transit, and tech
devops Shut up and calculate: Jev's new AI primitives for coders Developers test what they can build with TypeSafe's fast, typed decision model
ai and ml Frontier AI keeps racing despite calls to slow down Anthropic and OpenAI debut Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol and Luna
security Windows CLOSEDQUORUM malware uses AI models to autonomously select post-compromise actions 'first' publicly documented Windows implant to use LLMs for C2
security Z.ai says sorry for slurping up your code, open sources ZCode China’s AI darling goes on the defense after engineer highlighted Grok-esque security flaws
saas Register reader hit with surprise bill after Microsoft portals disagreed Did Copilot write the synchronization code?
systems Perpetual underdog AMD nips at Nvidia's heels as it joins the $1T club Fueled by the AI boom, the House of Zen's rise isn't just Instinct - Lisa Su is riding high on some Epyc design chops too
security Treasury chief says AI bosses, not their bots, will carry the can for criminal acts 'Humans are responsible, not the AI,' argues Scott Bessent as he calls out OpenAI agents' hack of Hugging Face
personal tech Google smacks forehead, realizes $899+ thin-and-lights were what it was missing 'A new category,' insists the Chocolate Factory, not a premium Chromebook - yet some of the family resemblance remains
on-prem AI can't outprompt a shortage of power, water, and land Forrester predicts operators will face tariffs, grid commitments, and tougher community scrutiny
software Salesforce wants to charge for AI outcomes, but first it needs to figure out how Seats, Flex Credits, and all-you-can-eat contracts make for an 'anxiety-filled architecture'
devops Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120K The Rust compiler remains unperturbed by the antics of the LLM
systems Virginia governor wakes up to fact datacenters have become political cancer Executive order puts the kibosh on NDAs, limits permitting, and calls for stiffer environmental protections
ai and ml Compsci grads facing recession-like job prospects thanks to AI Slinging coffee and waiting tables ain't just for liberal arts grads any more, say Census Bureau economists
ai and ml Claude Code revamps projects so you can work and pay in parallel Running multiple Claude sessions at once means less waiting around to hit your usage limit
cyber-crime FBI: Fake cop and government impersonation scams cost victims $1.6B AI, fake uniforms, and mock offices help crooks sell the con
systems Marvell pushes GlobalFoundries to light up wafer production It might be the next trillion-dollar company, but it'll need some help on the supply side to do it
systems Huawei's next-gen Ascend NPUs could become China's best option 960DT is set to arrive early, boasting performance far exceeding anything the West could offer the Middle Kingdom
ai and ml AI model watermarking changes agent behavior Lasso Security sees differences in tool handling and model refusals
systems Nvidia goes green to keep grid capacity from zapping its revenues GPUzilla woos neoclouds into another walled garden, promising smarter, more efficient, and profitable bit barns
cyber-crime Spain gets its first taste of AI-aided cyber attack Data protection chiefs call for 'immediate review' of data protection models
systems AI networking startups race to replace Nvidia's NVLink Intel spin-off Cornelis and newcomer Delos Data pitch open alternatives for scaling AI beyond the rack
ai and ml Anthropic and OpenAI look to Uncle Sam to make them too big to fail American model devs are trying to convince Washington to cement their dominance
on-prem Datacenter developers want your backyard. FAS says negotiate harder Tax breaks, water, noise, decommissioning - report tells local officials what to nail down before signing
systems Nvidia's Groq acquihire is on the DOJ's radar, but it's already too late Even if regulators did somehow unwind the $20B deal, there's a growing list of alternatives ready to take Groq's place, no merger required
Watch out: Apple timepiece can grab snippets of conversation without both speakers' consent War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Privacy is surveillance
d-Matrix drinks the Nvidia Kool-Aid with NVLink Fusion and MGX rack designs AI infrastructure startup joins Qualcomm, Arm, Marvell, Amazon, Fujitsu, and MediaTek as NVLink true believers
ai and ml Anthropic reveals fourth likely crime committed by its AI Claude's Felony Bench rap sheet is now as long as OpenAI's
systems Samsung to help fortify OpenAI's semiconductor supply chain Semiconductor supply chains are hard, but Samsung offers OpenAI relief in many forms spanning compute and memory
ai and ml Google DeepMind rises above the AI scrum with genome atlas See, AI can be used for good ... or at the very least, a useful distraction from the bad
off-prem Amazon ropes Qualcomm into something, something AI, networking chips Multi-generation chip collab is more buzzwords than compute
on-prem AMD's Threadripper Halo is a local-AI workstation for researchers with deep pockets AI workstation promises to put up to 576 GB of HBM3e and 16 TB/s of memory bandwidth on your desk
ai and ml Hugging Face is too important to fall into Nvidia's hands $12.9 billion deal will inevitably cement Nvidia's market dominance and harm competition in the process. Regulators should take note
Zuck's Muse to Spark joy with open weights release 'soon' While you wait, Meta says it’s taught the model to stop wasting tokens and ask for help a bit more often
ai and ml With Gemini 3.8 Flash, Google reminds everyone it's still in the race AI model scores well, runs fast, and doesn't cost too much (yet)
security AI agents carried out every step of this ransomware attack – then left the victim an 80-page security audit Adding insult to injury
ai and ml Anthropic promises zero data retention – but customers must check it worked More compliance-friendly stance could boost appeal of Fable
security Attacker stole a METR API key, used $600K worth of credits, and no one noticed for weeks The model provider gave METR the credits for free. An actual customer would not have been so lucky
ai and ml Anthropic pledges to try harder to keep models under control, asks partners to chip in Security ... this time it will be different
systems Nvidia is building an IP licensing empire on the back of NVLink Even when you think you're not buying Nvidia, you might still be buying Nvidia
ai and ml Energy biz SSE smacked around in court by a guy and AI Company's three year pursuit of debt from non-existent address ended by Oxford judge
security Industry that built the problem offers to sell you the solution 100+ tech giants warn AI attacks are coming, skip the part where they pay for defenses
systems Nvidia and Cerebras are selling performance their customers will (probably) never see Touting batch 1 token generation is a bit like boasting about the top speed of your car
software Google forces Android apps to use memory more wisely as RAMpocalypse rages No one can afford RAM anymore, so we're requiring devs to mind memory usage
personal tech HP has a solution to expensive AI tokens: Buy a more expensive PC Rising cloud AI costs are pushing workloads onto pricier PCs – which just happen to be better for PC maker's margins
systems Meta's new MTIA 400 chip has a split personality: Training AI and serving ads Faster than Blackwell, but still no replacement for AMD or Nvidia ... yet
ai and ml Debian polls its developers on whether to burn the bots, tame the bots, or let 'em loose Eight-way ballot on AI code puts the distro's fractious democracy through its paces
on-prem EPA to drop requirement for public notice of polluting datacenters State and local regulators would decide whether the public gets a say on minor-source permits
systems OpenAI's upcoming Jalapeño chip looks like it'll be an inference beast 128 chips, 1.7 exaFLOPS, and 27 TB of HBM give Altman and crew a leg up over Blackwell, and maybe even Rubin
systems What Nvidia's first Groq 3 LPU benchmarks tell us about its $20B gamble Gemma 4 31B performance tests offer a best-case scenario for next-gen dataflow accelerators
on-prem US datacenters tripled their water footprint in 10 years ... and those are figures from the start of the AI boom. It can only be worse now. Silo-ed reporting isn't helping
ai and ml AI slop is good for business if you know what you're doing Your irresponsibility is someone else's opportunity
saas Salesforce partners not seeing meaningful revenue from Agentforce AI platform, report says Show us the money
ai and ml AI companies are burning books, advocates complain to FTC Fahrenheit 203, the temperature GPUs stop gorging on literature
devops Go updates may delight diehard gophers but displease AI overlords v 1.27 expands generics to support methods
edge and iot Waymo has designed a robocar chip to stay ahead of Tesla 5 nm ML accelerators promise 1,000+ TOPS, ultra-low latency
systems AMD inches closer to its goal of making AI suck less ... energy House of Zen claims latest systems already 4x more efficient than two years ago
off-prem Google pits Marvell against Broadcom as it chases AI crown And Marvell just offered the Chocolate Factory a $12.2B stake to sweeten the deal
systems Cerebras CS-4 rack systems juice chips for every last drop of AI performance Next-gen systems double per-chip performance while cramming 3x as many into a rack
research Copilot tricked into telling reseachers how to hack itself How to social engineer an AI's reasoning engine
ai and ml Payments giant Stripe is about to drop over $7 billion to become a gateway to AI token sales AI gateways look promising as companies struggle with model orchestration
ai and ml Anthropic says text watermarking scheme relies on inconsequential words 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's afternoon' is the sort of thing this will make, and others look likely to adopt it
ai and ml DeepSeek's innovative harness treats everything as a plug-in Chinese AI labs keep moving forward while US labs play defense
security Autonomous AI attacks pose 'clear and present danger' to critical infrastructure Weaponized agents could turn digital intrusions into kinetic disasters, experts warn
off-prem Rent-a-GPU outfit Nebius promises rapid 1 GW powerup plan isn't nebulous And it'll jump through every financial hoop it can to get there
ai and ml Modular's Mojo programming language hits 1.0 milestone Developers await open source compiler release to dispel uncertainty following Qualcomm acquisition
off-prem Together AI embraces the competition with $240M IBM Cloud deal Deal to fund 'large' deployment of Nvidia's last-gen HGX B300 systems launching in Q1 2027
ai and ml Anthropic pledges to embed watermarks to help discern AI slop in sop to EU EU rules cited as reason for effort to trace AI output ancestry
ai and ml The future is for billionaires – the rest of us will get open weight AI models, maybe Mark Zuckerberg muses about 'superintelligence' and 'arc of human civilization'
ai and ml Zuck rekindles open weights Llama drama with Muse Glimmer 30-billion parameter LLM, Meta's first in more than a year, signals Meta's return to the open weights arena. Open version of Muse Spark to follow
ai and ml OpenAI pledges to add Astra security as Anthropic loosens Fable's leash Or how I learned to stop worrying and love dangerous AI
systems AMD acquires AI chip startup Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models into silicon
ai and ml An off-grid AI sounds like a great survival assistant, but is better left to roleplaying the zombie apocalypse
ai and ml OpenAI scored an own goal with Hugging Face attack, showing how open Chinese models are winning
ai and ml OpenAI tries the consulting path with 'Presence', charging enterprises boots-on-the-ground prices to deploy agents
security AI music platform Suno hits bum note as 55M users exposed in data breach, claims infosec expert
systems Scalding hot AI accelerators have put datacenters in hot water. Two-phase cooling could chill them out
ai and ml Former OpenAI CTO does what Altman won't, releases a frontier AI model that's actually open
on-prem IBM's mainframe sales get mugged by AI hardware panic, stock sheds more than a quarter of its value
ai and ml The price is wrong: AI cost calculation has to consider task completion rates, not just token costs
ai and ml Memory makers are slaves to the boom-bust rollercoaster, and the AI boom is the wildest ride of all
ai and ml The AI that spawned MechaHitler and deepfake porn puts on a suit to become legal advisor and Excel jockey
ai and ml Intel-backed AI chip startup SambaNova breathes new life into aging Nvidia GPUs in latest benchmarks
software Microsoft says the world is changing faster than it can keep up as it guts commercial, Xbox teams
ai and ml Security researchers tricked LLMs into giving them cocaine recipes by abusing role models for prompt injection
security It's looking like a hot, messy summer for security teams as AI finds countless previously hidden vulns
channel Infosys boss says vibe coding is no threat because there’s more to writing software than writing software
security Rights groups brand Home Office's AI age guesser for asylum-seekers as biased and inaccurate
ai and ml Devs in the trenches are stressed from the mandate to automate everything, but Render thinks it can help
ai and ml Midjourney pivots from AI image generation to body scanning medical spa where patients bathe in 'golden light'