AI + ML Anthropic’s Stainless steal tightens grip on AI dev tooling Claude maker nabs SDK and MCP tooling biz, plans to sunset platform
AI + ML Frustrated franchisee sues Pizza Hut over crappy kitchen AI The Hut stands accused of breaching its franchise agreement by forcing 'algorithmic behaviors that slowed production and delivery' on restaurants, leading to $100M in losses one group wants back
AI + ML Google touts its tokenmaxxing and capex spending amid AI orgy Chocolate Factory readies always-on agents for searchers
AI + ML 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
AI + ML 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
AI + ML 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
AI + ML The big AI companies are going to see their margins disappear AI will indeed eat the world – if your world involves software-size margins
systems 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
AI + ML 'Big AI' is subverting regulations just like tobacco and oil firms Researchers warn that regulatory capture means industry concerns trump those of citizens
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
Security 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’
AI + ML 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
AI + ML Agent harnesses, like OpenClaw, are changing how we build and run AI models Ride your bots further by putting them in a harness
AI + ML AI-generated code is 'pain waiting to happen' The boom is piling up technical debt, warns Lightrun's Moshe Sambol
On-prem 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
DevOps Git is unprepared for the AI coding tsunami An influx of agents is pushing GitHub to the brink
AI + ML AI agents show they can create exploits, not just find vulns Mythos and GPT-5.5 muscle out the competition
AI + ML 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
AI+ML 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
AI + 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
AI + ML Anthropic tosses agents into the API billing pool Limits Claude subscriptions to interactive use
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
DevOps 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
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
patches 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
On-Prem Datacenters are having fewer, but bigger failures And neither AI nor international conflict are helping
AI + ML See through local AI lies with Irish eyes ICCL Enforce project offers Verity fact-checking server
AI + ML 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
AI + ML SAP U-turn brings AI features to ECC and on-prem S/4HANA CEO says there is 'no confusion at all' after cloud-only innovation plan drew flak
Public Sector Vietnam to develop domestic cloud so it can ditch risky overseas operators for government workloads Communist government plans personalized ‘data-driven decision-making based on real-time information’ by 2035
AI + ML Execs admit AI makes them value human workers less As suits say they're burning cash on brainboxes without seeing results
AI + ML Google users fight for refunds as unauthorized API usage bills soar 'What the hell is going on? It's just draining my money'
aI + ML Hollywood A-listers back proposed standard that would pay them when AI uses their likeness or work RSL Media expands machine-readable licensing rules to cover AI use of identities and creative works
Security Japan’s PM orders cybersecurity review to stop Mythos going full CyberZilla Fears exponential increase in attack scale and speed
DevOps GitLab promises a different kind of layoff as biz pivots toward AI Code hosting biz is trimming its global footprint and flattening its management layer
AI + ML OpenAI can't have incompetent AI consultants ruining the market, so bought its own By which we mean it bought someone else's with other people's money
Security Anthropic’s bug-hunting Mythos was greatest marketing stunt ever, says cURL creator After all that hype, AI scanner found one low-severity cURL flaw
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
Systems Memory godboxes could offer relief from the RAMpocalypse Amid the AI-fueled memory crunch, will Compute Express Link finally have its moment to shine?
networks HPE drops first Juniper x Aruba collab – self-driving Wi-Fi NetAdmins can stay in the loop while they learn to trust AI to tackle some scutwork
devops Dyna Software's AI assistant promises to massage your toughest ServiceNow configs The tool is meant to take the place of 80% of the work that requires ServiceNow dev teams
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
Software NHS code clampdown draws open source backlash Plus a petition for the UK Civil Service to go FOSS by default
Off-Prem Neocloud IREN buys OpenStack champion Mirantis Former bitcoin miner plans to build an easier cloudy AI on ramp while remaining a friend to FOSS
PaaS + IaaS AWS lets agents drive its virtual cloudy desktops – which could cost 500,000 tokens per click if used carelessly Vendor benchmark finds APIs let you do the job faster and cheaper
Security India orders infosec red alert in case Mythos sparks crime spree Securities regulator urges market players to develop new strategies and nail cyber-basics before AI models fuel mass attacks
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 Anthropic wants Claude to play with money, unleashes finance agents Always bet on backpropagation
AI + ML IBM asks DBAs to trust AI to act on their behalf With help from Google and Intel, Big Blue brings new automation to Db2
AI + ML ServiceNow clears agents for landing with new AI control tower ServiceNow acquisitions Veza and Traceloop join to monitor agents and AI workflows
AI + ML Brit mathematician lets AI agent loose with credit card – cue password leaks, CAPTCHA chaos and more Professor Fry's AI experiment shows light and dark sides of agentic tech
Columnists Microsoft's bad obsession is showing up in shabby services and slipshod software. Here's proof If you can't bother to keep GitHub running, why should we bother with you?
Security Singapore boffins get diverse SIEMs singing in harmony with agentic rule translation Vendors all use different formats. This tech translates them all so you can smooth your SOC
AI + ML Microsoft fixes VS Code after app gives Copilot credit for human's work Devs not thrilled that Git extension added the bot as co-author by default
Security Shadow IT has given way to shadow AI. Enter AI-BOMs 'If you don't have visibility, you can't understand what to protect'
AI + ML AI inference just plays by different rules Why no cloud storage architecture was designed for what agentic AI is about to demand
Security If the vote you rocked, your personal info can be grokked Even limited voter rolls can be linked to identify people, research shows
AI + ML How TeamViewer ONE transforms IT operations from firefighting to autopilot Forget "have you tried turning it off and on again?" Agentic AI support systems now seek and destroy tech issues before they're a problem.
Security Five Eyes spook shops warn rapid rollouts of agentic AI are too risky Prioritize resilience over productivity, say CISA, NCSC and their friends from Oz, NZ, Canada
Legal Just in time for Labour Day, China makes it illegal to fire humans if AI takes their jobs PLUS: Samsung cashes in on RAM prices; Booze from space fetches huge price; China's hyperscalers surge
AI + ML Inference is giving AI chip startups a second chance to make their mark In a disaggregated AI world, Nvidia can be both a friend and an enemy
AI + ML Usage-based pricing killing your vibe - here's how to roll your own local AI coding agents Take those token limits and shove them by vibe coding with a local LLM
Security Brace for the patch tsunami: AI is unearthing decades of buried code debt Britain's cyber agency says the bill for years of technical shortcuts is coming due, and it's arriving all at once
Public Sector Mythos complicates the breakup, says Pentagon CTO, but Anthropic is still barred Emil Michael says agencies are evaluating the cybersecurity model, not deploying it
AI + ML CIOs ready for another role-change as AI becomes agent of chaos If software writes software the risk is “systematic failure at scale”. Someone needs to take charge, argues Forrester
Systems Qualcomm teases ‘dedicated CPU for agentic experiences’ and ‘agentic smartphones’ Enters the custom AI silicon business with secret silicon for an un-named hyperscaler
AI + ML Firefox maker torches Google for building Prompt API into browser Mozilla fears wiring an AI API into Chrome will make the web less open
Security Bot her emails: most modern phishing campaigns are AI-enabled KnowBe4 says 86% of phishing it tracked used AI, and inboxes are only the start
Networks Bandwidth hogs rejoice, Celestica's latest switch is bristling with 64 ports of 1.6 Tbps Ethernet Networking kit arrives just in time for Nvidia's 1.6 Tbps ConnectX-9 NICs
Patches Google's fix for critical Gemini CLI bug might break your CI/CD pipelines This CVSS 10.0 RCE vuln has been patched, automatically for some, so better check those workflows
Devops Zed team releases version 1.0 of Rust-built editor: Traditional editor and AI tool Team wins praise for adding 'disable all AI features' setting for devs who want a code editor to be only a code editor
Off-Prem Google to sell its TPUs to some customers, who also fancy big-G GPUs AI is driving more searches and ads
Off-Prem Microsoft lifts 2026 AI spend by $25 billion to cover component price rises Will write checks for $190 billion and even those megabucks may not satisfy demand
Legal Databricks can't seem to shake authors' copyright claim that could result in 'extraordinary' damages Authors say it acquired an LLM that was trained on their copyrighted data, and judge keeps asking for more info
AI + ML Yet another experiment proves it's too damn simple to poison large language models There is no 6 Nimmt! champion, but a $12 domain registration and one Wikipedia edit convinced several bots there was
AI + ML AWS keynote hypes AI as magic. Its own engineers tell a different story No shortcuts, human-review everything, says internal team - and keep hiring junior developers
Security 30 ClawHub skills secretly turn AI agents into a crypto swarm Yet another reason not to feast on OpenClaw
AI + ML The future of software development: Now with less software development At AI Dev 26 x SF, code slingers confront their relationship with AI
On-Prem Oracle plans to power its New Mexico mega datacenter with a 2.45GW fuel cell farm No sense in OpenAI stressing over its cloud bills if Oracle can't get the lights on
AI + ML OpenAI jumps out of Microsoft's bed, into Amazon's Bedrock Altman's gaggle of GPTs now available in limited preview in an AWS region near you
AI + ML Vintage chatbot lives in the past like an elderly relative Talkie's training data stops at the end of 1930, and its creators hope it'll help us better understand how AI thinks
AI + ML IBM's AI coding 'partner' Bob hits general availability 80,000 internal guinea pigs, Bobcoins, mainframe dreams and a name that really should have raised more flags
AI + ML Amazon unveils a Copilot for all your apps Retailer touts 'teammates' and always-on context as it muscles into an already crowded enterprise market
AI + ML Tenstorrent’s Galaxy Blackhole AI servers escape the event horizon RISC-V-based systems pack 32 Blackhole accelerators in a 6U, $110K chassis
AI + ML Locked, stocked, and losing budget: AI vendor lock-in bites back Execs in the C-suite thought they could swap models in a week. They were hallucinating
Legal China blocks Zuck’s acquisition of AI outfit Manus Back to the drawing board for Meta's AI ambitions
AI + ML Microsoft's GitHub shifts to metered AI billing amid cost crisis The all-you-can-eat AI buffet is coming to an end
AI + ML Cursor-Opus agent snuffs out startup’s production database Relax, the data's been recovered. Continue with your vibe coding
Public Sector The Navy's autonomous carrier-based refueling drone has finally flown After missing its 2025 target, Boeing's MQ-25A Stingray is one step closer to a carrier deck
Systems Core Scientific accelerates crypto-to-AI pivot, converts Bitcoin mine to gigawatt-scale token farm They were doing it in Texas...
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
Security Nation-states want to cause harm, not just steal cash - stop handing your cyber defenses to the cheapest contractor
Security Vibe coding upstart Lovable denies data leak, cites 'intentional behavior,' then throws HackerOne under the bus
Security Agents hooked into GitHub can steal creds – but Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft haven't warned users
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