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GOV.UK chatbot gets smarter but slower as LLMs improve
More powerful large language models (LLMs) are helping make the UK government's in-development chatbot more accurate but are also slowing it down, according to the Government Digital Service (GDS).…
Struggling to put your AI aversion into words? Here's a handy glossary
Opinion Are you an AI hater, an AI vegan, or a slightly more moderate AI vegetarian? Or are you on the side of the clankers? A bot-licker, a prompt-fondler, a ChatNPC?…
Google offers ‘vibe design’ tool that you can shout at to create a UI
The term “vibe coding” has become associated with use of AI coding assistants to create code that expresses a developer’s intent, even if the results are ropey and require plenty of extra work to put into production. Google’s now proudly adapted the term to describe the workings of its Stitch design tool.…
Your next car night need 300GB of RAM, and so will humanoid robots
Autonomous cars will need 300 gigabytes of DRAM or more, and humanoid robots will need similar quantities, leading memory-maker Micron Technology to predict it has a long and happy future ahead of it.…
Tencent says small clouds can’t get hardware, so big clouds can hike prices
Two more Chinese cloud giants have signalled price rises for their services, again due to the impact of AI on their supply chains.…
Anthropic's Claude claws its way towards the top of the AI market
Anthropic has been killing it in the business market, success that appears to be at least partially attributable to pushback against the Pentagon.…
Okta made a nightmare micromanager for your AI agents
Identity access and management platform Okta announced the general availability of its Okta for AI Agents, which will give customers the ability to do three things: locate agents, see what they’re doing, and shut them down if need be.…
State snoops and spyware vendors planting info-stealing malware on iPhones, Google warns
A new exploit kit targeting iPhone users and stealing their sensitive data is being abused by "multiple" spyware vendors and suspected nation-state goons, security researchers said on Wednesday.…
Chatbot Romeos keep users talking longer, but harm their mental health
Sometimes a compliment is no help at all. Chatbot flattery, a well-known and common problem, makes things worse for humans experiencing mental health issues.…
ChatGPT advised exec on how to fire Subnautica founders to avoid payout, court ruling says
One of your studios is about to make a game that you think will be a huge hit, and you don't want to pay the contractually required bonuses. What to do? One Korean CEO turned to ChatGPT to cook up a plan to get his company out of paying up to $250 million. It went about as well as you'd expect.…
Storage vendors orbit the Nvidia sun at GTC
GTC Hitachi Vantara and Nutanix announced support for Nvidia’s new GPUs and software at GTC 2026, much like every other storage system vendor, while IBM integrated Watsonx and other offerings more tightly with GPUzilla's offerings. Seagate demonstrated a two-tier hybrid external KV Cache composed of SSDs and disk drives, as it did last year.…
Microsoft promises all-in-one database wrangling hub on Fabric
Microsoft has launched a database management tool it promises will help users manage multiple databases sharing a single SQL engine.…
Amazon security boss says crims abused max-security Cisco firewall flaw weeks before disclosure
Ransomware criminals exploited CVE-2026-20131, a maximum-severity bug in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center software, as a zero-day vulnerability more than a month before Cisco patched the hole, according to Amazon security boss CJ Moses.…
Ohio citizens tell hyperscalers to take their supersized datacenters elsewhere
Ohio residents are proposing a ban on datacenters with a capacity greater than 25 MW, the latest sign of growing opposition to massive server farms across the US.…
Microsoft publishes a workaround for Samsung's C:\ drive woes
Microsoft has published a handy guide for regaining access to a C:\ drive borked by a Samsung application, but it isn't for the faint of heart.…
Meatbags vs machines: DeepMind plans hackathon to draw line between human and AI brains
If a bot actually achieved artificial general intelligence (AGI), how would we even know? Google DeepMind boffins have come up with what they say is an empirical, scientifically grounded framework to measure progress toward AGI, and they're looking for a few good devs to actually flesh it out. …
Systemd 260 kills SysV, tells AI not to misbehave
The latest release of the most widely used Linux init system is here, and between dropping init script support and AI-assisted coding, we feel sure that this release will win it yet more admirers.…
Microsoft Copilot boss Mustafa Suleyman to chase superintelligence
Microsoft has rearranged the deckchairs on the RMS Copilot, sending Mustafa Suleyman to seek out superintelligence, and putting Jacob Andreou in charge of Copilot across consumer and commercial.…
North Korea's 100,000-strong fake IT worker army rake in $500M a year for Kim Jong Un
Researchers at IBM X‑Force and Flare Research have uncovered data that sheds light on how North Korea's fake IT worker schemes operate and infiltrate companies in order to funnel money back to the regime and steal sensitive information.…
AI for software developers is in a 'dangerous state'
QCon London AI is in a dangerous state where it is too useful not to use, but where by using it, developers are giving up the experience they need to review what it does, said a speaker at QCon London, a vendor-neutral developer conference underway this week.…