NHS staff resist using Palantir software

Palantir's software was brought in to help NHS England improve care and cut delays, but new reports suggest some staff are resisting using it over ethical, privacy, and trust concerns. NHS staff, both ...

AI models will deceive you to save their own kind

Leading AI models will lie to preserve their own kind, according to researchers behind a study from the Berkeley Center for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence (RDI).

Hybrid work, expanded risk: what needs to change

Webinar Promo The shift to hybrid work has reshaped the enterprise perimeter. Users are logging in from home networks, shared spaces and unmanaged devices, while applications span on-prem systems and ...

When a billboard survives the wind, but not the boot

Sent in by an eagle-eyed Register reader, the borked billboard was spotted in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The billboard appears to ...

Contractor quaffed his way through Y2K compliance while the client scowled

"I whooped and finished my last beer," Marcus told On Call, actions that saw a project manager who was also working the Y2K ...

Microsoft shivs OpenAI with three new AI models for speech and images

OpenAI just happens to offer its own speech recognition, speech generation, and text-to-image models. Microsoft's models are available through Foundry (formerly Azure AI Studio), a platform to develop ...

Google battles Chinese open-weights models with Gemma 4

Developed by Google's DeepMind team, the fourth generation of Gemma models brings several improvements, including "advanced reasoning" to improve performance in math and instruction-following, support ...