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The Register AIEuropeIndia floats AI plan under which ‘The model travels to the data, rather than the data travelling to the model’ As debate and legal argument continue over the extent to which developers of large language models are entitled to feed the world’s data into their systems without paying for it, India’s government…
The Register AIEuropeHowler will have AI answer your questions, then burn the chat If you want to ask AI a question and watch the conversation go up in virtual flames when you're done, there's a new Mac app for that.
The Register AIEuropeReach new heights of laziness by burning tokens to let an AI tap your smartphone screen for you Why use your smartphone when AI can do it for you? We’ve reached a new level of AI inanity with the launch of Opposable, a tool that taps, swipes, and types on Android phones and controls iPhones…
The Register AIEuropeAI cuts coding time, but it's also filling open source's inbox with crap Generative AI is saving open source developers time while giving maintainers more rubbish to sift through, according to a Linux Foundation survey.
The Register AIEuropeCOSMIC shuts the door on AI code as GNOME debates letting bug reports in System76 is banning AI-generated content from contributions to the COSMIC desktop. Some GNOME sub-projects also restrict AI-generated contributions, but one developer is urging them to make an…
The Register AIEuropeShow colleagues how much you care by sending an AI avatar to your Google Meet call If you've always wanted to say you have "people" to attend your meetings, there's an app in development for that, as long as you're comfortable with the idea of eventually sending an AI bot in your…
The Register AIEuropeKDE turns 30 and someone's brought an AI-native desktop proposal KDE's annual conference takes place this weekend at Graz University of Technology in Austria, with an AI-native desktop proposal likely to divide attendees.
The Register AIEuropeOracle says AI will save it from the SaaSpocalypse, not bring it on Oracle has argued AI will strengthen its applications business, by giving customers new ways to use software and making them easier to implement.
The Register AIEuropeMicrosoft goes after Salesforce and ERP users with AI-powered converter Microsoft has found another use for AI: providing an off-ramp for Salesforce customers. The software giant on Wednesday gave the world “Dynamics 365 Activate,” software that executive veep for Apps…
The Register AIEuropeAnother Microsoft team admits it’s struggling to handle flood of AI-generated code A few weeks back we spotted Microsoft’s Exchange team admitting that AI has found so many bugs it hasn’t found time to deliver a Cumulative Update for the messaging server.
The Register AIEuropeAI-assisted mushroom hunting is a recipe for a bad trip If you see a mushroom in the forest and you're wondering if it's safe to eat or poisonous, don't ask an AI.
The Register AIEuropeMicrosoft's virtual intern Teams Facilitator will be late for the meeting Microsoft has pushed back detection and question answering by the Teams Facilitator to November, after initially scheduling General Availability for June.
The Register AIEuropeSalesforce boasts: 50% of bookings were from 'customers refilling the tank... they consume Flex Credits, they want more' Announcing upbeat financials and a new offering with AI posterchild Anthropic, Salesforce has begun to drip-feed plans for how it might get customers to spend more as they deploy AI.
The Register AIEuropeMcKinsey says enterprise AI is finally 'on the road to ROI' Four years into the generative AI revolution, consulting giant McKinsey reckons we've finally started the engine and are officially "on the road to ROI." Whether that road leads to actual…
The Register AIEuropeCanonical backs quest to translate mountains of C into safe Rust with AI Canonical's fondness for AI and Rust is no secret. Now it is co-funding a three-year PhD project investigating whether the former can translate large C codebases into the latter.
The Register AIEuropeSoftware should work, and talking about it needn't be boring OPINION DVD is one of those technologies that dominated for barely a generation yet left a permanent cultural mark.
The Register AIEuropeSlack Code taps into collective vibe, puts AI agents into the group chat Slack has decided that AI coding agents have spent quite enough time alone with developers and would be better off doing their work where everyone can watch: on Slack.
The Register AIEuropeExcel's Copilot function is headed for the Recycle Bin Microsoft will retire Excel's COPILOT() function on September 14, barely a year after its preview debut.
The Register AIEuropeMicrosoft blames AI for delayed Exchange update, can’t say when it will arrive Microsoft has blamed extra work created by AI bug-finders for the delayed release of a major Cumulative Update to Exchange Server Subscription Edition (SE).
The Register AIEuropeOpenWALDO aims to blow the doors off proprietary AI training models A new project aims to build a shared, open source AI training dataset that anyone can contribute to, much like an open source software project.
The Register AIEuropeHey, big spender – OpenAI has a new SKU just for you Not getting enough out of that ChatGPT Business subscription? OpenAI is hoping you’ll take it up on a new “premium” Business tier seat that’s up to $100 more a month for some added capacity and…
The Register AIEuropeHumans in the loop miss a third of dangerous AI coding agent requests A browser-based game designed to test humans' ability to safely approve AI coding agent requests suggests humans in the loop aren't as good at spotting dangerous commands as one might hope, with…
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