Forget one chip to rule them all: With TPU 8, Google has an AI arms race to win
Google unveiled two new in-house AI accelerators at its annual Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday: one designed to speed up training and another aimed at driving down model serving costs.…
France's 'Secure' ID agency probes breach as crooks claim 19M records
France's National Agency for "Secure" Documents is explaining a potential data spill just as crooks online claim they've nicked a third of the country's ID information.…
Scotland Yard can keep using live facial recognition on Londoners, say judges
London's Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has survived a legal challenge that attempted to curb its rollout of live facial recognition (LFR) technology across the capital.…
UK tribunal sends £2B claim accusing Microsoft of overcharging for licensing to trial
A UK Competition Appeals Tribunal (CAT) has dismissed Microsoft's objections to a collective action lawsuit brought by UK-based cloud licensees, clearing the way for trial.…
Database world trying to build natural language query systems again – this time with LLMs
Over the past few years, database and analytics vendors have hopped on a bandwagon that may take us all to a destination where common data queries are free from the constraints of the specialist query language SQL.…
Forget call centers, local energy prices mean Britain's latest offshoring wave is AI projects
One in five UK firms have already moved AI workloads abroad due to high energy costs, in findings likely to alarm a government counting on AI to drive economic growth.…
Oil crisis? What oil crisis? IT spending de-coupled from wider war shock
A day after the International Energy Agency (IEA) said the US/Israel/Iran war was creating the worst energy crisis ever faced by the world, Gartner increased its growth forecasts for global IT spending by nearly three percentage points.…
Mythos found 271 Firefox flaws – but none a human couldn’t spot
The Mozilla Foundation has revealed it tested Anthropic’s bug-finding “Mythos” AI model and feels the results it experienced represent a watershed moment for software defenders.…
Magnificent irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs
Meta, the company built on watching everything its billions of users do online so it can keep them clicking on ragebait and targeted ads, is reportedly now installing surveillance software on employees’ work computers.…
Anthropic tests how devs react to yanking Claude Code from Pro plan
Anthropic has removed Claude Code from its Pro subscription plan, according to some of its public-facing web pages, but the company says it’s only a test for a small number of users.…