The Register3d ago
Google says criminals used AI-built zero-day in planned mass hack spree https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/05/11/google-says-criminals-used-ai-built-zero-day-in-planned-mass-hack-spree/5237982 #theRegister #AiAndMl
Google says criminals used AI-built zero-day in planned mass hack spree

GTIG says AI-powered hacking has moved well beyond phishing emails and chatbot tricks

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The Register3d ago
China’s agentic AI policy wants to keep humans in the loop https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/05/11/chinas-agentic-ai-policy-wants-to-keep-humans-in-the-loop/5237632 #theRegister #AiAndMl
China’s agentic AI policy wants to keep humans in the loop

PLUS: Robot becomes Buddhist monk in Korea; TikTok spending $25bn in Thailand; Baidu floating chip biz; and more!

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The Register3d ago
Yes, local LLMs are ready to ease the compute strain https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/05/11/yes-local-llms-are-ready-to-ease-the-compute-strain/5237451 #theRegister #AiAndMl
Yes, local LLMs are ready to ease the compute strain

Anthropic might be thinking about space to ease its computing burden, but Claude Code on your laptop is way more practical

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The Register5d ago
Google tweaks Chrome AI privacy wording, insists processing stays on-device https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/05/09/google-tweaks-chrome-ai-privacy-wording-insists-processing-stays-on-device/5237580 #theRegister #AiAndMl
Google tweaks Chrome AI privacy wording, insists processing stays on-device

Deletion of a longstanding privacy assurance sparks concerns

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The Register6d ago
GPT-5.5 may burn fewer tokens, but it always burns more cash https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/05/08/gpt-55-may-burn-fewer-tokens-but-it-always-burns-more-cash/5237498 #theRegister #AiAndMl
GPT-5.5 may burn fewer tokens, but it always burns more cash

It’s not just gas prices skyrocketing. Frontier-model pricing keeps climbing too

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The Register6d ago
Trump jumps from 'anything goes' to 'strict regulation' AI policy https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/05/08/trump-jumps-from-anything-goes-to-strict-regulation-ai-policy/5234687 #theRegister #AiAndMl
Trump jumps from 'anything goes' to 'strict regulation' AI policy

In a word, 'Huh?'

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The RegisterMay 7
AMD puts out new slottable GPU for AI-curious enterprises https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/05/07/amd-takes-aim-at-enterprise-ai-with-pcie-based-instinct-gpus/5231481 #theRegister #AiAndMl
AMD takes aim at enterprise AI with PCIe-based Instinct GPUs

AMD on Thursday unveiled the MI350P, the House of Zen’s first PCIe-based Instinct accelerator since the MI210 made its debut all the way back in 2022.

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The RegisterMay 7
EU hits snooze on AI Act rules after industry backlash https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/05/07/eu-hits-snooze-on-ai-act-rules-after-industry-backlash/5234530 #theRegister #AiAndMl
EU hits snooze on AI Act rules after industry backlash

Brussels says it's simplification, critics may call it retreat

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The RegisterMay 7
Chrome silently installs a 4 GB local LLM on your computer https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/05/07/chrome-silently-installs-a-4-gb-local-llm-on-your-computer/5230893 #theRegister #AiAndMl
Chrome silently installs a 4 GB local LLM on your computer

You did remember to opt out of AI, didn't you?

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The RegisterMay 7
Using AI to click around on a website burns 45x as many tokens as just using APIs https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/05/07/ai-vision-agents-use-45x-more-tokens-than-apis-in-benchmark/5231346 #theRegister #AiAndMl
AI vision agents use 45x more tokens than APIs in benchmark

For AI agents, seeing is expensive

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