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go.theregister 47h ago 22°

Meta to pour the GDP of Kenya into AI infrastructure push in 2026

Zuck bets big on 'personal superintelligence' with $135B splurge Meta is to nearly double its capital investments aimed at AI this year, spending more on infrastructure than the entire output of some mid-sized economies, as the AI datacenter feeding frenzy shows no sign of ending.…
go.theregister 45h ago 18°

IBM says AI is insane in the mainframe as z17 sales surge

Big Blue leaning on software smarts to modernize COBOL estates and cut costs IBM's leader has trumpeted an AI-on-the-mainframe future as generative AI fills in the COBOL gap left by earlier generations of techies.…
go.theregister 46h ago 17°

Tesla revenue falls for first time as Musk bets big on robots and autonomy

Elon thinks taxis and androids will succeed where car sales are stalling Tesla reported 2025 revenue of $94.8 billion, down 3 percent year-on-year and marking the first annual revenue decline since the electric car maker began publishing financial results in 2010.…
go.theregister 46h ago 16°

Banker claims Oracle may slash up to 30,000 jobs, sell health unit to pay for AI build-out

Cerner, though acquired in 2022, is nothing to multibillion black hole Oracle could cut up to 30,000 jobs and sell health tech unit Cerner to ease its AI datacenter financing challenges, investment banker TD Cown has claimed, amid changing sentiment on Big Red's massive build-out plans.…
go.theregister 36h ago 15°

Java developers want container security, just not the job that comes with it

BellSoft survey finds 48% prefer pre‑hardened images over managing vulnerabilities themselves Java developers still struggle to secure containers, with nearly half (48 percent) saying they'd rather delegate security to providers of hardened containers than worry about making their own container security decisions.…
go.theregister 42h ago 14°

Dow Chemical says AI is the element behind 4,500 job cuts

The 129 year old chemical company uses Palantir-rival C3's AI as its software of choice. ai-pocalypse The jury is still out when it comes to determining how much job loss AI is causing. However, we now have another case study. Dow Chemical blames AI automation for its plans to cut 4,500 jobs, about 12.5 percent of its work force.…
go.theregister 39h ago 13°

Google's Project Genie could put even more game developers out of work

A Labs prototype turns prompts into short, explorable 3D worlds Google has put the video gaming industry on notice with the rollout of Project Genie, an experimental AI world-model prototype that generates explorable 3D environments from text or image prompts.…
go.theregister 23h ago 12°

Want digital sovereignty? That'll be 1% of your GDP into AI infrastructure please

Analyst predicts massive spend on domestic AI stacks Countries intent on digital sovereignty will need to invest at least 1 percent of their entire gross domestic product (GDP) into AI infrastructure by 2029, according to analyst biz Gartner.…
go.theregister 23h ago 12°

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 OpenAI is sunsetting some of its ChatGPT models next month, a move it knows "will feel frustrating for some users."…
go.theregister 29h ago 12°

Deciphering the alphabet soup of agentic AI protocols

Tools, agents, UI, and e-commerce - of course each one needs its own set of competing protocols MCP, A2A, ACP, or UTCP? It seems like every other day, orgs add yet another AI protocol to the agentic alphabet soup, making it all the more confusing. Below, we'll share what all these abbreviations actually mean and share why they are important for the future of AI.…
go.theregister 39h ago 11°

Musk distracts from struggling car biz with fantastical promise to make 1 million humanoid robots a year

To what end? Who knows? Tesla isn't even using them in its own factories yet Elon Musk's car company is getting ready to be Skynet. Tesla, facing an 11 percent decline in automotive revenue in Q4 2025, has committed to $20 billion in capex spending this year on manufacturing and compute infrastructure. The goal: build lots of humanoid robots.…
go.theregister 27h ago 11°

NS&I's IT car crash considers cutting legacy links to stop the bleeding

£1.3B over budget and four years late, bank searches for a way to not to bust new timetable and funding pot A British state-owned bank is reconfiguring its modernization project, including considering reducing connections with legacy systems, as it tries to claw back schedule and budget overruns that are far beyond early plans.…
go.theregister 48h ago 10°

Cyberattack on Poland's power grid could have turned deadly in winter cold

Close call after an apparently deliberate attempt to starve a country of energy at the worst time Cybersecurity experts involved in the cleanup of the cyberattacks on Poland's power network say the consequences could have been lethal.…
go.theregister 15h ago 10°

Ex-Googler nailed for stealing AI secrets for Chinese startups

Network access from China and side hustle as AI upstart CEO aroused suspicion A former Google software engineer has been convicted of stealing AI hardware secrets from the company for the benefit of two China-based firms, one of which he founded. The second startup intended to use these secrets to market its technology to PRC-controlled organizations.…
go.theregister 20h ago 10°

Backblaze says AI traffic and neoclouds could shape future networks

The western US saw the most activity overall Cloud storage firm Backblaze says that a sharp rise in AI-driven data traffic to neocloud operators may signal a shift from internet-style traffic patterns to large, high-bandwidth flows characteristic of large-scale model training and inference work.…
go.theregister 43h ago 10°

To stop crims, Google starts dismantling residential proxy network they use to hide

The Chocolate Factory strikes again, targeting the infrastructure attackers use to stay anonymous Crims love to make it look like their traffic is actually coming from legit homes and businesses, and they do so by using residential proxy networks. Now, Google says it has "significantly degraded" what it believes is one of the world's largest residential proxy networks.…
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