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
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 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
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
Security OpenAI locks GPT-5.5-Cyber behind velvet rope despite slamming Anthropic for doing exactly that Altman's crew now doing the same gatekeeping it recently mocked
AI + ML Fewer users, fatter wallets is why Anthropic tops OpenAI in LLM revenue stakes AI boom splits between companies hoarding eyeballs and those actually charging for them
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 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
AI + ML OpenAI now lets you screenshot your privacy in the foot Make your model smarter through self-surveillance
AI + ML Mozilla throws Thunderbolt at enterprise AI providers Client connects to deepset's Haystack platform
AI + ML Bad teacher bots can leave hidden marks on model students Study finds LLMs will smuggle biases into others even if they're scrubbed from training data
AI + ML Man suspected of Molotov attack on Sam Altman's home charged with attempted murder 20-year-old Texan also allegedly planned to kill everyone inside the OpenAI office building
On-Prem OpenAI puts Stargate UK on ice, blames energy costs and red tape Sam Altman's datacenter dreams hit a wall of watts and wonkery, cooling Britain's AI ambitions
AI + ML OpenAI gets $122B to 'just build things' as the world blows them up War, oil shocks, and market nerves could yet knock the AI boom off course
On-Prem Microsoft takes up residence next to OpenAI, Oracle at Crusoe's 900 MW Texas datacenter expansion New campus to include on-site power generation
AI + ML OpenAI now gets to decide which type of product assassin it will become AWS, Google, Broadcom, or Netscape?
Devops OpenAI tries to build its coding cred, acquires Python toolmaker Astral Deal helps company build out its Codex team
Systems Oracle and OpenAI's Texas Stargate datacenter expansion reportedly on the skids Meta supposedly considering untapped capacity in deal brokered by Nvidia
AI + ML Altman said no to military AI abuses – then signed Pentagon deal anyway OpenAI CEO's principles lasted about 12 hours before $200M check arrived
AI + ML OpenAI says its latest model is less likely to beat around the bush The AI giant is also trying to walk back some terms of its deal with the Defense Department
AI + ML OpenAI’s Altman says Pentagon set ‘scary precedent’ binning Anthropic Signs a deal with Washington anyway, says he’s kept control of killer robots by allowing only cloudy AI, with guardrails
AI + ML Amazon and Nvidia open their wallets to lock in OpenAI's business while SoftBank keeps the lights on ChatGPT maker announces $110B in new investment amid flurry of self-serving deals
AI + ML Burger King turns to AI to flame broil employees who aren't friendly enough Because nothing says hospitality like a bot counting your pleases
AI + ML AIs are happy to launch nukes in simulated combat scenarios Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini all had different personalities and reasoning tactics, but the endgame was the same
Channel OpenAI asks its friends to tell their friends about Frontier Agent-making tool that mimics human workers is about to get its enterprise close up.
Cyber-crime OpenAI says Chinese cops used ChatGPT to plan and track smear ops against opponents Note to secret agents: ChatGPT is NOT a private diary
Systems AMD copy-pastes 6 GW chips-for-stock deal in new Meta agreement The House of Zen signed a nearly identical deal with OpenAI last fall
AI + ML Altman: You think AI is wasted energy? Try raising 100 billion humans OpenAI CEO takes really, really long view on energy efficiency
AI + ML India’s top telco tackles AI with $110 billion build plan and proven fast market dominance playbook Reliance Jio used super-cheap plans and own-brand phones to conquer
On-Prem US tech giants open their wallets for AI-friendly politicians Rush is on to push forward sympathetic candidates from both parties ahead of midterms
AI + ML OpenAI grabs OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger to build personal agents Whatever comes next will be ‘core to OpenAI product offerings’
AI + ML How AI could eat itself: Competitors can probe models to steal their secrets and clone them Just ask DeepSeek
Systems OpenAI dishes out its first model on a plate of Cerebras silicon GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark may be a mouthfull, but it's certainly fast at 1,000 Tok/s running on Nvidia rival's CS3 accelerators
AI + ML Anthropic apes OpenAI with cheeky chatbot commercials The Claude maker wants you to know about ChatGPT’s ad plans
AI + ML Snowflake bets $200M that OpenAI makes databases more chatty Cuts out the Azure middleman with multi-year deal for 'tighter alignment'
AI + ML OpenAI gives ChatGPT models the chop – two weeks' notice, take it or leave it GPT-4o gets second death sentence after last year's reprieve, but this time barely anyone's bothered
AI + ML Microsoft investors sweat cloud giant's OpenAI exposure All the promises in the world won't pay the GPU bills when the music stops
AI + ML Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service takes an unscheduled day off in Sweden Cascading backend failures kept users locked out until home time
AI + ML We come in peace, OpenAI tells locals near gargantuan Stargate facilities AI darling on neighborly charm offensive amid datacenter backlash
AI + ML OpenAI will try to guess your age before ChatGPT gets spicy Think of the children...and the monetization options available where they're not allowed
AI + ML OpenAI is still figuring out how to make money, but wants you to believe in it And the world economy might depend on it finding an answer
AI + ML Coming soon: We interrupt this ChatGPT session with a very special message from our sponsors Gotta pay for those datacenter buildouts somehow
AI + ML OpenAI invests in brain-interface biz co-founded by CEO Sam Altman Merge Labs envisions controlling devices using your brain - without implanting hardware in your body
Systems OpenAI to serve up ChatGPT on Cerebras’ AI dinner plates in $10B+ deal SRAM-heavy compute architecture promises real-time agents, extended reasoning capabilities to bolster Altman's valuation
On-Prem AI's $3T infrastructure binge continues despite lack of clear profits Investment in datacenters to peak by 2029, place your bets please
AI + ML Claude joins the ward as Anthropic eyes US healthcare data AI firm promises HIPAA-compliant integrations as chatbot moves into hospital admin
AI + ML Boffins probe commercial AI models, find an entire Harry Potter book Dark copyright evasion magic makes light work of developers' guardrails
AI + ML ChatGPT Health wants your sensitive medical records so it can play doctor It's for less consequential health-related matters, where being wrong won't kill customers
Research OpenAI putting bandaids on bandaids as prompt injection problems keep festering Happy Groundhog Day!
AI + ML AI's grand promise: Less drudgery, more complexity, same (or lower) pay Workers face new mental health pressures as they shift from doing tasks to babysitting agentic AI
AI + ML ChatGPT is playing doctor for a lot of US residents, and OpenAI smells money One man's failing healthcare system is another man's opportunity
AI + ML Sam Altman is willing to pay somebody $555,000 a year to keep ChatGPT in line There’s a big salary up for grabs if you can handle a high-stress role with a track record of turnover
AI + ML One real reason AI isn't delivering: Meatbags in manglement Stuck in pilot purgatory? Confused about returns? You're not alone
AI + ML SoftBank scrambling to come up with $22.5B in OpenAI funding before New Year Masayoshi Son better hope he made Santa's nice list
AI + ML Former UK chancellor George Osborne finds something to do at OpenAI Follows Nick Clegg at Meta and Rishi Sunak at Anthropic in snuggling up to US tech
The Future of the Datacenter Delays? What delays? Oracle insists its $300B cloud contract with OpenAI is on track And don't sweat the debt either, we've got plenty of capital at our disposal
AI + ML Disney turns to dark side, licenses IP to OpenAI for videos, images Begun, these AI wars have
Off-Prem Diversion to power datacenters earns Boom Supersonic a ticket to revive fast air transport Adapts its engines to power bit barns, and lands cash to fund its takeoff roll
AI + ML Block all AI browsers for the foreseeable future: Gartner Analysts worry lazy users could have agents complete mandatory infosec training, and attackers could do far nastier things
AI + ML OpenAI turns the screws on chatbots to get them to confess mischief 'You're absolutely right! I was totally lying to you!'
Offbeat Logitech chief says ill-conceived gadgets put the AI in FAIL Just ignore all the ways the peripherals biz uses AI itself
AI + ML OpenAI cuts off Mixpanel after analytics leak exposes API users ChatGPT maker places other vendors under review following breach
AI + ML HSBC spies $207B crater in OpenAI's expansion goals Gap threatens Oracle, Microsoft, and Amazon despite optimistic forecasts of 3 billion ChatGPT users by 2030
AI + ML Alibaba releases chatbot that produces error when asked about Tiananmen Square Yet Chinese giant wants users to ‘ask any question, big or small, anytime, anywhere!’
AI + ML Now you can share your AI delusions with Group ChatGPT Just when you thought virtual collaboration couldn’t get worse, OpenAI stuffs a bot into your group conversations
AI + ML OpenAI GPT-5.1 adds more personalities, loses inhibitions Updated model may deliver a bit more unwanted content, but will be polite about it
AI + ML OpenAI’s viability called into question by reported inference spending with Microsoft Microsoft internal financials also suggest AI flag bearer is nowhere close to $13 billion in revenues
AI + ML Intel CTO and AI boss quits to join OpenAI after just six months in the job Sachin Katti was one of new Intel CEO Lip Bu Tan's first appointments
AI + ML Altman sticks a different hand out, wants tax credits instead of gov loans We can't let supply chain shortages burst the bubble boy's balloon
AI + ML Microsoft will force its 'superintelligence' to be a 'humanist' and play nice with people Redmond's new AI boss is willing to sacrifice performance for the future of our species
Security OpenAI API moonlights as malware HQ in Microsoft’s latest discovery Redmond uncovers SesameOp, a backdoor hiding its tracks by using OpenAI’s Assistants API as a command channel
AI + ML OpenAI spreads the imaginary wealth beyond Microsoft with $38B AWS deal Amazon deal still dwarfed by $250B Azure commitment made as part of OpenAI's for-profit transformation
Cybersecurity Month AI blew open software security, now OpenAI wants to fix it with an agent called Aardvark AI promises to find bugs and gaps in your apps
AI + ML Microsoft just revealed that OpenAI lost more than $11.5B last quarter Satya has also delivered Sam most of the cash he promised
AI + ML AWS Stargate-smashing Rainier AI megacluster is up and running Half a million Trainium2 chips now running Anthropic workloads, with half a million more waiting in the wings
AI + ML OpenAI non-profit will run for-profit that has yet to make a profit Corporate restructuring will benefit ... uh, humanity
On-Prem OpenAI tells Trump to build more power plants or China wins the AI arms race 'Electrons are the new oil,' ChatGPT maker claims, demanding 100 GW per year
Cybersecurity Month Atlas vuln lets crims inject malicious prompts ChatGPT won't forget between sessions It can do a lot more than just play 'Eye of the Tiger' daily
Research Researchers exploit OpenAI's Atlas by disguising prompts as URLs NeuralTrust shows how agentic browser can interpret bogus links as trusted user commands
AI + ML Sora makes slurfect deepfakes of celebs spewing racial epithets If you listen closely, you’ll realize Sam Altman and the others are only saying sound-alike words
SaaS OpenAI goes after Microsoft 365 Copilot's lunch with 'company knowledge' feature ChatGPT can now rummage through corporate files via connectors, though Redmond still has the deeper hooks
AI + ML Britain's Ministry of Justice just signed up to ChatGPT Enterprise OpenAI sweetens the deal with data residency
Cybersecurity Month OpenAI's Atlas shrugs off inevitability of prompt injection, releases AI browser anyway 'Trust no AI' says one researcher
AI + ML OpenAI releases bot-tom feeding browser with ChatGPT built in Why experience the web for yourself when there's so much privacy to surrender?
Offbeat Boris Johnson confesses: He's fallen for ChatGPT As OpenAI allows chatbot to spout erotic content, former British prime minister makes true feelings known
AI + ML Larry Ellison's latest craze: Vectorizing all the customers Oracle slurps your data whether you like it or not... for the good and bad of the planet
AI + ML OpenAI's ChatGPT is so popular that almost no one will pay for it If you build it, they will come and expect the service to be free
AI + ML Japan tells OpenAI to stop spiriting away its copyrighted anime Tokyo cries foul over Sora slop abusing 'irreplaceable treasures' of anime, manga - oh, and copyright law
AI + ML Some like it bot! ChatGPT promises AI-rotica is coming for verified adults Maybe this will bring in some actual profit?
Systems Broadcom cozies up to OpenAI for 10 GW custom chip love-in Every human deserves their own accelerator, says ChatGPT creator
AI + ML OpenAI GPT-5: great taste, less filling, now with 30% less bias AI model maker touts effort to depoliticize its product
Off-Prem OpenAI's Stargate project to pave the world with AI datacenters announces five new US locations
On-Prem OpenAI sweet-talks Oracle into another 4.5GW worth of Stargate datacenters, assuming the check clears
AI + ML Cisco president says dredging coding syntax from wetware memory wastes engineers' expensive synapses
AI Infrastructure Month OpenAI wants to build a subscription for something like an AI OS, with SDKs and APIs and 'surfaces'
AI Infrastructure Month Tech titans: Wanna secure US AI leadership? Stop giving the world excuses to buy Chinese
AI + ML It's fun making Studio Ghibli-style images with ChatGPT – but intellectual property is no laughing matter
AI + ML Satya Nadella says AI is yet to find a killer app that matches the combined impact of email and Excel
AI Software Development Week AI agents? Yes, let's automate all sorts of things that don't actually need it
AI + ML China's DeepSeek just emitted a free challenger to OpenAI's o1 – here's how to use it on your PC
AI + ML OpenAI's Operator agent wants to tackle your online chores – just don’t expect it to nail every task
