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Anthropic says its IPO could herald the end of the world as we know it
October 4, 2026 · 27 minAnthropic's IPO prospectus leaked this week, and boy was it filled with interesting details. For starters there's the fact a third of it is all about existential AI risks, then there's the fact that, despite some impressive revenue growth…
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A new challenger appears: Jev fights LLMs for enterprise supremacy
September 27, 2026 · 22 minAs AI has reshaped the tech world, so it in turn waits for something greater to come along and reshape it, and that unstoppable force might just be TypeSafe AI's new model, Jev. Jev's not chatty, it doesn't want to tell you a story, and…
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American datacenters might be getting dirtier, but at least they'll be efficient
September 20, 2026 · 29 minJust when you thought concerns over datacenter power generation in the US couldn't get any worse, the Trump administration goes ahead and gets rid of emissions restrictions on power plants. If that wasn't bad enough, the EPA is also…
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AI is going to kill everyone, and apparently we're just going to let it
September 13, 2026 · 25 minHey, did you hear? AI is going to kill us all and no one is trying to do anything to stop it. That's what industry insiders are saying now, anyways. Whether you believe we just have to sit back and let Skynet end civilization is another…
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Jensen's purchase of a new toy could reshape the entire AI industry
September 6, 2026 · 21 minAI repository Hugging Face will soon be an Nvidia property, and while everyone's promising things will remain the same we at The Register's Kettle desk aren't so sure the status quo is going to stay the status quo at the AI industry's…
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High tech, high schmeck: What's old is new again
August 30, 2026 · 40 minWindows XP is turning 25, and with AI still causing a memory crunch we're really missing the days of low-overhead OSes from Microsoft that just worked. This week on The Kettle, host Brandon Vigliarolo is joined by FOSS reporter Liam…
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AI vendors are turning to custom hardware as Microsoft turns back the clock on Windows
August 23, 2026 · 36 minThis week, we learned a lot more about what’s going on inside the datacenter. GPUs may still be king but their exclusive reign on the rack is over. The taskbar's reign at the bottom of the desktop may be coming to an end too. Register…
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Black Hat and DEF CON are AI conferences now, too
August 16, 2026 · 26 minOur cybersecurity editor Jessica Lyons spent a week in Las Vegas for Black Hat and DEF CON last week, and there was only one thing on everyone's mind: AI agents and their growing threat to cybersecurity defenders. As Jess wrote this week…