Though AI models have been trained to emit the correct answer and to recognize that "2 + 2 = 5" might be a reference to the errant equation's use as a Party loyalty test in Orwell's dystopian novel, ...

Chinese web giant Tencent’s capital expenditure is slowing and the company expects it will decelerate further due to its inability to buy all the GPUs it wants. Tencent is a sprawling conglomerate ...

Who, Me? Welcome to another week in the world of work, and therefore also to another edition of Who, Me? It’s The Register’s Monday reader-contributed column in ...

The Trump administration just launched a detailed, AI-pushing platform for federal agencies last week, but a government leader is already promising to kill it. USAi is now a full-fledged cloud-based, ...

Microsoft has made Windows 11 25H2 available to Windows Insiders in the Release Preview channel, as market share figures show the company's flagship operating system continues to enjoy a lead over its ...

COMMENT The Arm-based Surface Laptop 7 was introduced in 2024, followed by an Intel-powered version a few months later. As with much of the Surface line, it's a well-engineered piece of hardware. I ...

Microsoft-owned collaborative coding platform GitHub is deepening its ties with Elon Musk's xAI, bringing early access to the company's Grok Code Fast 1 large language model (LLM) into GitHub Copilot.

opinion Implementation of the U.K.'s Online Safety Act is giving internet users around the globe – including those in U.S. states moving to enact their own age verification laws – real-time proof that ...

The new native 68K AmigaOS web browser leans on the machines' underlying emulation system to offer modern facilities on a retro OS. Amibrowser [PDF] from Amigakit tackles one of the requirements to ...

The all-AI search mode Google introduced earlier this year has sprouted a one-trick AI agent – but only those willing to pay top dollar for the privilege. Given that Google, like much of the AI world, ...

Datacenter developers in the UK are turning to gas for power generation amid lengthy wait times for a connection to the electricity grid. The British government unveiled plans at the start of the year ...

The Pentagon has formally kiboshed Microsoft's use of China-based employees to support Azure cloud services deployed by US government agencies, and it's demanding Microsoft do more of its own digging ...