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China’s Cyberspace Administration last week published draft regulations governing the behavior of AI agents and suggested humans should always retain the ability to review decisions taken by software. The draft expresses Beijing’s enthusiasm for AI agents with a call for efforts to develop datasets that accelerate development, along with security standards that make agents safe ...

KETTLE We've been experimenting with LLMs for a while here at The Register, and if you ask our systems editor Tobias Mann and senior reporter Tom Claburn, locally installed coding assistants have actually become so good they could relieve some of the compute load that's pushing AI companies to raise their prices. This week on The Kettle, host Brandon Vigliarolo is joined by Mann...

In modern datacenters, storage can live anywhere — local to the machine, remotely accessed over the network, and/or shared between systems. The next generation of servers will treat system memory in much the same way. Systems will still have some local DDR5, but the bulk of it will be remotely accessed from what some have taken to calling the memory godbox. The ongoing DRAM shor...

Both Ubuntu and Fedora have made it official: support is coming soon for running local generative AI instances. An epic and still-growing thread in the Fedora forums states one of the goals for the next version: the Fedora AI Developer Desktop Objective. It is causing some discontent, and at least one Fedora contributor, SUSE’s Fernando Mancera, has resigned. Fedora Project Lead...

The early history of personal computers is stacked with systems such as the Apple II and the Commodore 64 that had the components living inside a keyboard. But as technology evolved, the keyboard became a peripheral and the PC itself was either in a separate box or the whole system was a laptop. Now, HP has a new spin on this decades-old idea. It embeds a full-fledged AI PC insi...