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AI AND ML

Latest news and features covering machine-learning and AI

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Minor edits to AI skills can make agents go rogue

Text is the new attack

Zuck defends monitoring employees to win AI race in purported leaked audio

Limping Llama model needs a crutch made of surveillance tools

U.S. $100 banknotes stacked in an automatic cash counting machine.

As memory prices squeeze enterprise buyers, Lenovo laughs all the way to the bank

Switch to premium devices pays off as PC giant post record record, just don't ask about cheap laptops

Microsoft lets users exile floating Copilot button after interface rage

Listening to your customers? Who are you, and what have you done with Microsoft?

Google explains how it will infuse ads into AI answers

Just like in The Truman Show

Npm registry sets stage for more secure package publishing

All the world's a stage, and all the packages are merely players

AI is getting expensive, but relief is on the way - just not for you

New hardware promises greater efficiency, user experiences, and most importantly larger margins

Deus ex machina: Half of US Christians trust AI's spiritual advice

AI sycophancy + spirituality = uh oh

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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

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Apple adds AI smarts to Voice Control, VoiceOver and Magnifier ahead of Accessibility Day

Natural language commands and better image descriptions but Mac users and dictation fans may still be waiting

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UK.gov hikes health AI tender by 400% – and hundreds of millions – after a chat with suppliers

Maximum framework value sky-rockets from £150M to £600M after 'an extensive intelligence gathering exercise'

AMD says its $4K Ryzen AI Halo workstation practically pays for itself

If you spend at least eight hours a day vibe coding that is

AI code accelerates production failures and spending, study finds

CloudBees survey exposes verification gap

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

OpenAI floats buy-before-your-try AI availability guarantee

Nice AI workloads you have going, it'd be a shame we ran out of stock

Bye-bye, Gemini CLI; Google's gone and swapped you for a closed-source AI

Most users lose access June 18 - unless you’ve got enterprise creds or paid API keys

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Anthropic’s Stainless steal tightens grip on AI dev tooling

Claude maker nabs SDK and MCP tooling biz, plans to sunset platform

Frustrated franchisee sues Pizza Hut over crappy kitchen AI

The group claims $100M in losses from flubby system

Google touts its tokenmaxxing and capex spending amid AI orgy

Chocolate Factory readies always-on agents for searchers

Shadow AI invades the workplace, up 4x in the last year

Employers increasingly blind to unauthorized AI use and where their staff are sending proprietary files

1 in 5 Brits think AI layoffs could trigger civil unrest

UK folk increasingly don't believe AI jobs revolution will end in prosperity for anyone outside the boardroom, say researchers

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The class of 2026 has heard enough about AI, thanks

From campus ceremonies to Linux communities and academic journals, resistance to LLM evangelism is getting louder

The big AI companies are going to see their margins disappear

AI will indeed eat the world – if your world involves software-size margins

Uncle Sam's next big supercomputer might use something more exotic than GPUs

Chip startup NextSilicon's high-performance-computing-focused accelerators get Sandia National Lab's stamp of approval

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'Big AI' is subverting regulations just like tobacco and oil firms

Researchers warn that regulatory capture means industry concerns trump those of citizens

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

Linus Torvalds says AI-powered bug hunters have made Linux security mailing list ‘almost entirely unmanageable’

Multiple researchers using the same tools to find the same bugs are creating ‘unnecessary pain and pointless work’

Surprise AI bills leave AWS and Google Cloud users aghast

Stuck with an AI bill for tens of thousands of dollars? You're not alone by a long shot

Agent harnesses, like OpenClaw, are changing how we build and run AI models

Ride your bots further by putting them in a harness

Abstract graphic with glowing generative AI text surrounded by colorful letters and symbols.

AI-generated code is 'pain waiting to happen'

The boom is piling up technical debt, warns Lightrun's Moshe Sambol

Datacenters slurping up so much juice they boosted prices 75% in largest US energy market

BYO power for AI bit barns may be the best way to ease the problem, says energy watchdog

Git is unprepared for the AI coding tsunami

An influx of agents is pushing GitHub to the brink

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AI agents show they can create exploits, not just find vulns

Mythos and GPT-5.5 muscle out the competition

Anthropic urges Uncle Sam to kneecap China's AI ambitions before 2028

Claude maker warns authoritarian regimes could set the rules unless Washington tightens chip and model controls

Cerebras risked it all on dinner plate-sized AI accelerators a decade ago. Today it's worth $66B

Here's a look at the tech powering the first big IPO of 2026

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

Anthropic tosses agents into the API billing pool

Limits Claude subscriptions to interactive use

Three different colour versions of Samsung's smart ring device set against a white background

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

Anthropic’s Bun Rust rewrite merged at speed of AI

Version 1.3.14 of JavaScript toolkit released as last Zig version; a million lines of Rust code merged in gargantuan commit

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

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Welcome to the vulnpocalypse, as vendors use AI to find bugs and patches multiply like rabbits

Palo Alto Networks found and fixed 75 flaws this month, up from its usual five

Datacenters are having fewer, but bigger failures

And neither AI nor international conflict are helping

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See through local AI lies with Irish eyes

ICCL Enforce project offers Verity fact-checking server

Dissatisfied: Three-fourths of AI customer service rollouts are a letdown

AI rollback rates hit 81% at firms with mature guardrails, suggesting enterprises are struggling to manage the systems in production, says Sinch