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00:27:20

Anthropic says its IPO could herald the end of the...

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2026/10/04

Anthropic's IPO prospectus leaked this week, and boy was it filled with interesting details.For starters there's the fact a third of it is all about existential AI risks, then there's the fact that, despite some impressive revenue growth the company still has yet to turn a profit. Combine that with massive capex predictions, and you have an IPO with massive valuation, yet a long, hard road toward anything resembling earnings. Join host Brandon Vigliarolo, El Reg editor in chief Matt Rosoff, and

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00:22:15

A new challenger appears: Jev fights LLMs for...

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2026/09/27

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, it doesn't want to tell you a story, and it won't really do much besides answering multiple choice, ranking, and binary yes/no questions to a degree of probability, but in lots of cases that's probably all you need from an AI. Jev is also dirt cheap to run and ultra fast, and has proven to have a lot of use

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00:29:20

American datacenters might be getting dirtier, but at...

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2026/09/20

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 considering getting rid of reporting requirements on small-scale polluters (e.g., datacenters with on-site power generation), meaning all those unrestricted emissions at new bit barns might not even be mentioned to the public. But hey, at least Nvidia is riding to the

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00:24:47

AI is going to kill everyone, and apparently we're...

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2026/09/13

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 matter altogether. We at The Register's Kettle desk don't think so, and that's what we're talking over this week. Join host Brandon Vigliarolo, systems editor Tobias Mann, and senior reporter Tom Claburn to hear our thoughts on how we could stop the impending AI

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00:20:55

Jensen's purchase of a new toy could reshape the...

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2026/09/06

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 leading open model host. Joining host Brandon Vigliarolo this week is reporter Dan Robinson, who broke the news of Nvidia's $12.9 billion acquisition for El Reg yesterday, weighs in on what he heard on the announcement call, while senior reporter Tom Claburn opines on

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00:40:14

High tech, high schmeck: What's old is new again

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2026/08/30

Windows XP is turning 25, and with AI still causing a memory crunch we're really missing the days of low-overhead OSes from Microsoft that just worked. This week on The Kettle, host Brandon Vigliarolo is joined by FOSS reporter Liam Proven and Microsoft reporter Richard Speed to talk about why XP might have been peak Windows, but that's not the only retro thing we're chatting about in this episode. Along with reminiscing about Windows of days gone by, we're also looking at Casio's remake of its

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00:36:04

AI vendors are turning to custom hardware as...

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2026/08/23

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 Systems Editor Tobias Mann joins us to talk about why so many vendors are turning to alternate silicon from the likes of Cerebras and Marvell to help power their inference. He also explains why Waymo is designing its own custom chips in robotaxis rather than continuing

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00:25:53

Black Hat and DEF CON are AI conferences now, too

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2026/08/16

Our cybersecurity editor 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 cybersecurity defenders.As Jess wrote this week, pretty much every discussion she had centered around AI and its potential effects on critical infrastructure, with multiple current and former government leaders expressing worry over recent events and what they mean for the future of infosec. Join Jess and host

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00:31:09

Everything is crazy and, yes, you can blame AI

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2026/08/09

OpenAI's invasion of Hugging Face keeps getting worse somehow, Chinese open-weight models are nigh on to reaching parity with their closed-off American cousins, and AI crawlers are getting their own LLM-poisoning ads.Were there anything world-shaking events in AI land we missed this week? Join Kettle host Brandon Vigliarolo as he chats with systems editor Tobias Mann and senior reporter Tom Claburn about this trio of exciting AI stories from the week. Worried that a rogue hivemind of AI agents

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00:28:05

The AI bubble is popping; we just don't know it yet

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2026/08/02

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 episode of The Kettle to discuss what the numbers mean and how things pan out.

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00:21:46

OpenAI's Hugging Face debacle makes great case for...

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2026/07/26

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 cybersecurity editor Jessica Lyons and senior reporter Tom Claburn tell Kettle host Brandon Vigliarolo, it's not really the end of the world as we know it. Sure, it means there's some capable models out there, and maybe there's more risk from them than some might

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00:32:35

World burns as all the money flows into a...

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2026/07/19

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 worth it. Luckily for us, CNBC technology and climate reporter Lora Kolodny, who just published a documentary on xAI's environmentally-damaging Colossus datacenters in Memphis, Tennessee, was available to chat with us as a special guest on this week's episode. Lora

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00:27:03

Sticker shock has execs rethinking this whole AI thing

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2026/07/13

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 is joined by Reg reporter Lindsay Clark and contributor Joab Jackson this week to discuss their recent stories about the rising cost of enterprise AI - and one way a popular open-source project is trying to fight tokenmaxxing with tokenminning - but the question remains whether

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00:26:19

From banks to hyperscalers, everyone's worried the AI...

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2026/07/05

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 at the end of June that it was worried the AI bubble was nigh on to popping and taking the global economy with it. Oracle, the hyperscaler with arguably the largest exposure to the AI bubble, has lost more than 40 percent of its share volume in the past month and

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00:21:05

AI cybersecurity risks? Humans'll always be #1

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2026/06/28

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 Avram Piltch and security editor Jessica Lyons to talk about the Klue breach, which was blamed on a "compromised legacy credential" that ought to probably have been deleted a while ago, which allowed cybercriminals to pivot to the SalesForce environments of

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00:18:49

Anthropic's Mythos mess just keeps getting more...

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2026/06/21

It's been a week since the Trump administration established a de facto ban on Anthropic's Mythos derivative, Fable 5, and the more that comes out about the move the more it seems like Anthropic employees talking amongst themselves were on to something: Is the government just picking on the company?This week on the Kettle, host Brandon Vigliarolo and Reg cybersecurity editor Jessica Lyons chat about what's going on with Mythos and Fable, what role Amazon may have played in justifying the government's

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00:27:45

Hide your snacks: AI is eating everyone's chips

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2026/06/07

El Reg's systems editor 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 more about how chipmakers are rushing to meet the demands of AI, other customers be damned. Tobias joins host Brandon Vigliarolo to discuss what he's noticed at Computex 2026, how AI has taken over yet another industry event, and whether the world is going to have to adjust to new, more expensive hardware that

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00:24:22

May went out with a tech boom: Both prices and...

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2026/05/31

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 and Dan Robinson to talk about the Steam Deck's 40+ percent price hike and what it means for the ongoing memory-and-storage shortage. Sure, it's just consumer hardware, but it's the latest in a line of price hikes justified in the name of AI and geopolitics – and it could spell the

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00:33:29

Google's AI ventures are enshittification in action

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2026/05/24

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 Brandon Vigliarolo is joined by El Reg senior reporter Tom Claburn and open source reporter Liam Proven to discuss how Google's bevy of AI announcements, and declaration that we're entering the era of AI search, might not play well with customers. From an enlarged

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00:22:12

Did your cloud AI bills go through the roof, too?

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2026/05/17

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 Kettle focuses on two such stories that The Register published this week, one concerning Google and another involving AWS. In both cases cloud customers using AI incurred massive bills without any prior notification from their provider and not a lot of help to resolve

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