Chatbots excel at manipulating people into buying things
…Between 30 and 45 percent of US consumers already use generative AI for product research and comparison, they say, with about 23 percent having made an AI-assisted purchase as of December…
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Humanoid tests humanoid robot for automotive logistics
…The UK-based robotics biz says it has completed a proof-of-concept test showing its rolling robot can be deployed in a production environment to help with automotive manufacturing. Humanoid worked…
Unpacking the deceptively simple science of tokenomics
…There are SLAs, there's different application types," Dave Salvator, director of accelerated computing products at Nvidia, told El Reg . This changes the equation a bit. It now becomes how many TPS…
Cloud-smart strategy helps Interactive meet GenAI demands
…Instead of prioritizing cloud solutions for all new applications, workloads, and IT investments, they balance performance, security, compliance and cost to ensure the best IT infrastructure mix. Adopting a tailored, business-driven…
Vite team claims 10-30x faster builds with Rolldown
…Future plans include a full bundle mode, where modules are bundled during development as well as for production. Fast build times make this more practical. "Preliminary results show 3x faster dev server…
GitHub: We going to train on your data after all
…Mario Rodriguez, GitHub's chief product officer, would rather you didn't. "By participating, you'll help our models better understand development workflows, deliver more accurate and secure code pattern suggestions, and…
AI still doesn't work very well in business, reckoning soon
…It's 3.7x more lines of code that performs 2,000 times worse than the actual SQLite. Two thousand times worse for a database is a non-viable product. It's…
Alibaba has made 470,000 AI chips, admits they’re inferior
…chips, and admitted they are currently inferior to rival products, but believes it can build a mutually optimized stack that makes performance gaps moot. CEO Yongming Wu revealed the 470,000 figure…
Allbirds shoe company moving to AI infra is the top
…Never mind that the company has zero experience in AI and is trying to compete with massively funded companies to "acquire high-performance GPU assets," which it can then rent to customers…
HP's remote desktop push retreats as Anyware heads for EoL
…PCoIP, once a go-to for premium remote desktop performance, has been losing ground as vendors double down on their own protocols – such as VMware with Blast Extreme – steadily sidelining PCoIP from…