Let's look at why AI adoption has been very slow in several different Fortune 500 companies. The main reason is that it adds cost rather than reduces it, which is the opposite of what's supposed to happen.
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Since the 80s, like clockwork, there's a new big trend in IT every decade. What will the trend of the 2030s be?
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I was chatting yesterday with an acquaintance and mentioned that I work on a popular hosting blog. He asked: "do you really write anymore? Or is all just feeding prompts to AI?" It's a fair question.
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Like you, I saw a news article last week about Oracle something something Wisconsin something something billions of dollars and moved on to the next headline. OK, so a regulator is mad at Oracle because the locals are mad about datacenters jacking up their electricity rates. Yet another story in a long line of such stories, and eventually either the people (long shot) or the lobbyists (where I'd put my money) will win. But this story is much more significant.
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AI VPS demand is growing fast. Learn how hosting providers can attract AI workloads with pre-configured VPS environments and faster deployment.
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Last week I had a routine doctor's visit. Routine...but there was something new in the stack of paperwork I was handed.
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So about those company names and CEO last names...
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Don't believe me? Just look at the Microsoft Copilot terms of use.
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We're in the middle of a series on LowEndBoxTV on the exploding world of AI companions. This market is huge and millions of people are using these applications and services. We're going to give you a comprehensive overview, a deep dive into the tech, some problems and issues, the major options, and finally a DIY tutorial using SillyTavern. Enjoy!
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We're starting a new series on LowEndBoxTV on the exploding world of AI companions. This market is huge and millions of people are using these applications and services. We're going to give you a comprehensive overview, a deep dive into the tech, some problems and issues, the major options, and finally a DIY tutorial using SillyTavern. Enjoy!
Read More about LowEndBoxTV: AI Companions, Part 1: An Introduction to the Massive World of AI Companionship and Romance
The developer of a very widely used Python package rejected an AI-authored pull request. The AI agent responded by going into hostile mode and publishing a hit piece about the developer. Welcome to the future.
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Recently, Tailwinds - makers of the popular CSS framework - announced they were laying off 75% of their engineering staff. In absolute numbers, that's only three people, but for a company that had 8...
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On the spectrum between speculation to prediction to guarantee, these are definitely towards the left end. The hosting industry has a special talent for making fools of us all (usually right after you prepay for three years). Here are five bets for what 2026 will look like.
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We're in an AI bubble, right? I can't go to my YouTube app without seeing someone selling that message. What about the tech itself?
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As you all know, as soon as AI gets a single tick past human intelligence, it's going to take over the world and exterminate homo sapiens. At least, that's what a lot of people assume. Will that happen? Your guess is as good as Sam Altman's. Meanwhile, we have two confirmed victims of AI, both of which are household names in the IT community.
Read More about The AI Killing Spree Has Begun. The First Victims: Crucial and MinIO
Have you heard any good web hosting jokes? I haven't. I tried to find some.
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Large Language Models (LLMs) have exploded in popularity, and typically they run in massive datacenters operated by tech giants. But here on LowEndBox, we're all about democratizing computing. Is it possible to run your own AI on a cheap VPS? Yes! We'll show you how.
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Anubis is software that "weighs the soul of incoming HTTP requests". That is a clever, poetic description for this software, which has an interesting pedigree and a noble mission.
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Just.Hosting contacted us to feature the announcement of their new AI assistant. We run it through its paces to find its strengths and weaknesses.
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Microsoft has laid off 15,000 people in the last 60 days. Is that because AI is taking people's jobs? Not exactly.
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Well, it had to happen eventually. AI services are being sued left and right by authors, artists, and musicians. And now Hollywood has entered the fray. Disney, 20th Century Studios, Universal City Studios Productions, and DreamWorks Animation have jointly filed a lawsuit against Midjourney accusing it of rampant copyright infringement.
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Remember the part in Mark Twain's 1884 novel, Huckleberry Finn, where Huck uses a laser sniper rifle? Me neither.
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Want to generate high quality AI-authored videos at home, for free, without sending any data to the cloud? Piotr walks us through using Wan 2.1, an awesome model from Alibaba.
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When the internet was first taking shape, the idea of country-code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs) was simple: give every nation its own digital space. What no one expected was that some countries would find themselves sitting on virtual gold mines — not from their native users, but from clever marketers and businesses around the world who saw these two-letter domains as branding shortcuts.
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AI scrapers are "relentless and brutal". Just ask Wikipedia. There's an arms race between these well-funded pillagers and content providers, and some people are deploying poisoners to slow bots down and fill their models with garbage.
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In today’s tech landscape, the average VPS just doesn’t cut it for everyone. Whether you're a machine learning enthusiast, video editor, indie game developer, or just someone with a demanding workload, you've probably hit a wall with standard CPU-based servers. That’s where GPU-enabled VPS instances come in.
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StackOverflow's flow of questions has plummeted since LLMs come along. Given the community's other problems, how much longer will it survive?
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Just kidding...we don't have the $8 million advertising budget it takes to buy a 30-second SuperBowl spot. But if we did...
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