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Anthropic's IPO prospectus is big on promises, short on answers to tough questions
It's official: Anthropic is going public, and boy, are our eyebrows tired from pouring over hundreds and hundreds of pages of questionable claims. Anthropic is going to need to do a lot to make its massive IPO (https://www.theregister.com/a
We really shouldn't be surprised about the PHPocalypse
We've spent the past several decades using duct tape, string, and chewing gum to chain the world's computers together into this thing we call the internet, so there's really no good reason to be surprised that most of it is full of software
50 years on, there's still nothing like the Voyager probes
It's been nearly half a century since the Voyager probes launched from Earth on a mission to explore the outer solar system, and they're still kicking. You're probably familiar with some of Voyager's iconic images, like the Pale Blue Dot (h
ShinyHunters, schminyhunters: Who needs human hackers when you can have Mythos do the hard work?
The FBI has announced what appears to be a third arrest in its campaign to root out the ShinyHunters after they busted into Bureau systems - but just because they're a highly-capable hacking crew it doesn't mean they won't be outdone by AI.
Anthropic says its IPO could herald the end of the world as we know it
Anthropic's IPO prospectus https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/29/leaked-ipo-docs-anthropic-tempts-investors-with-existential-risk-warning/5299763 this week, and boy was it filled with interesting details. For starters there's the
A new challenger appears: Jev fights LLMs for enterprise supremacy
As 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 (https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/0
American datacenters might be getting dirtier, but at least they'll be efficient
Just 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 conside
AI is going to kill everyone, and apparently we're just going to let it
Hey, 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 mat
Jensen's purchase of a new toy could reshape the entire AI industry
AI 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 leadi
High tech, high schmeck: What's old is new again
Windows XP is turning 25, and with AI still causing a memory crunch (https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/07/30/samsung-warns-memory-crunch-will-last-through-2028-as-profit-rises-19-fold/5281142) we're really missing the days of low-ove
AI vendors are turning to custom hardware as Microsoft turns back the clock on Windows
This 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 Syste
Black Hat and DEF CON are AI conferences now, too
Our cybersecurity editor Jessica Lyons (https://www.theregister.com/author/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
Everything is crazy and, yes, you can blame AI
OpenAI's invasion of Hugging Face keeps getting worse (https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/06/openai-reveals-its-rogue-agent-swarm-went-a-little-bit-borg-ahead-of-hugging-face-hack/5283741) somehow, Chinese open-weight models are n
The AI bubble is popping; we just don't know it yet
Between eye-watering capex expenses, shrinking free cash flow, and worries about chip availability, things are starting to look tight. El Reg Editor-in-Chief Matt Rosoff and Systems Editor Tobias Mann join host Brandon Vigliarolo for this e
OpenAI's Hugging Face debacle makes great case for open models
So, an OpenAI model broke out of its sandbox last week, made its way to the internet, and then hacked its way into Hugging Face, stealing some internal data and credentials in the process. That's big news in the world of AI, but as El Reg c
World burns as all the money flows into a multi-trillion-dollar magic 8 ball
Your host Brandon Vigliarolo has been breathing in wildfire smoke from Canada for the past few days, which really has him thinking about whether all those AI datacenters building gas turbines and contributing to climate change is really wor
Sticker shock has execs rethinking this whole AI thing
Like a drug dealer who's hooked you and raised their prices, business leaders are simply shocked to learn the AI their organizations are becoming dependent on is suddenly a lot more expensive. Kettle host Brandon Vigliarolo (https://www.the
From banks to hyperscalers, everyone's worried the AI bubble's fixin' to pop
From international banking worries to the market state of canary-in-the-coal-mine Oracle, the AI bubble is sure looking taut. The Bank for International Settlements, often referred to as "the central bank for central banks" said in a report
AI cybersecurity risks? Humans'll always be #1
AI commands all the headlines nowadays, but the biggest security story of the week is all about human laziness and poor password habits - just like the good old days. This week on the Kettle, host Brandon Vigliarolo is joined by US editor A
Anthropic's Mythos mess just keeps getting more complicated
It's been a week since the Trump administration established a de facto ban (https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/15/feds-freaked-over-fable-5-after-simple-fix-this-code-prompt-not-jailbreak-says-researcher/5255827) on Anthropic's My
Hide your snacks: AI is eating everyone's chips
El Reg's systems editorTobias Mann (https://www.theregister.com/author/tobias-mann) has been in Taipei for the past week getting the skinny on the hottest new chips, and what he's heard has been less about actual hardware announcements and
May went out with a tech boom: Both prices and rockets exploded this week
It was explosive news week – if you're the price of a popular-but-aging piece of consumer gaming hardware or a Jeff Bezos rocket. This week on The Kettle, Brandon Vigliarolo is joined by Reg reporters Richard Speed (https://www.theregister.
Google's AI ventures are enshittification in action
Google I/O has ostensibly been an AI show for a few years running, but this year's announcements have taken the cake, which Google seems all to happy to let its users eat as it reshapes the web. On this week's episode of The Kettle, host Br
Did your cloud AI bills go through the roof, too?
Hopefully you haven't had reason to notice yet, but there's a rising problem with AI services on Google Cloud, AWS, and other platforms sticking their customers with bills in the tens of thousands of dollars. This week's episode of the Kett
Locally-installed AI models are getting pretty good
This week on The Kettle, host Brandon Vigliarolo is joined by systems editor Tobias Mann and senior reporter Tom Claburn to discuss the current state of locally-installed coding assistant LLMs. After some experimentation, both Claburn and M
Things are messy at Microsoft: What's wrong?
Windows is a mess, Copilot's been a disaster, updates have been failing ... hey, Microsoft - everything okay? There's been a lot going wrong for the Windows maker of late, and leadership is promising improvements. Join host and El Reg Brand
Google Cloud Next is an AI conference now
This week on the Kettle we split the conversation between two topics: The biggest news out of Google Cloud Next, and the latest hype-bursting revelations about Anthropic's Mythos AI, and the fact that it's already been accessed inappropriat
AI is gullible - just like you!
Prompt injection attacks are, in a lot of ways, like phishing a human: By convincing them of your harmless intent, they do something that's not in their best nature just like the gullible person handing over corporate details. Thinking abou
Anthropic's Mythos might be more dangerous than Lovecraft's
Anthropic stunned the infosec world this week with the announcement of a new zero-day discovering and exploiting AI called Mythos, which it claims is too dangerous to release to anyone but the biggest companies in the tech world. Join host
Claude Code ... exposed!
A human mistake at Anthropic last week led to the entirety of Claude Code's source code being leaked to the web, pubished on GitHub, forked, dissected, picked apart, and otherwise exposed to the world to see - perfect fodder for a Kettle of
