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The Register Kettle

What's a kettle, you ask? Why a group of vultures in flight, of course. News, insights, analysis, and overall chatter around what's happening in the broader world of IT from the reporters at The Register and guests. Hosted by Brandon Vigliarolo, with regular guests EIC Matt Rosoff, US editor Avram Piltch, UK editor Paul Kunert, and reporters Tom Claburn, Jessica Lyons, Tobias Mann, and more!

Website ↗ Last published 2 November 2026 35 posts collected by Sputnik

Said on The Register Kettle

“A lot of the enterprise AI products that you see now are about trying to figure out ways to reduce that cost, because they don't want to run the top model twenty-four seven. So you have some sort of gateway or harness system that looks at your jobs and routes them to an appropriately cheap model, so that most of the time you're not using the top-tier intelligence.” — Tom Claburn, The Register Kettle
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“I think everyone in the industry is starting to realize that the music is stopping and the musical chairs, and they have to take a seat at some point and make the business model work. And so there's going to be a lot of pressure on that. And that's also showing up in things like the licensing of models. A lot of those open-weight models have seen their licenses get more restrictive over time as companies realize, well, maybe we don't want someone competing with us with this thing that we've made.” — Tom Claburn, The Register Kettle
Tom Claburn · 2 Nov 2026 Listen →
“What has gotten missed somewhat in the more rosy interpretations of the S-1 is that they also are signed up to have to repay upwards of eight hundred billion dollars and counting of compute commitments out through the next two decades or so.” — Tobias Mann, The Register Kettle
Tobias Mann · 2 Nov 2026 Listen →
“Anthropic's business is predicated on the idea that more compute means more revenues. However, the disconnect is: can revenues scale fast enough? Is there enough user base? Is there enough token demand to cash the checks they've already written? And it does really look like a house of cards. And they warn about this in the S-1, they have to, that if their revenues can't keep up with their compute commitments, they could default.” — Tobias Mann, The Register Kettle
Tobias Mann · 2 Nov 2026 Listen →

Hosts

The Register Kettle is hosted by Brandon Vigliarolo .

Recent Episodes

  1. 2 Nov 2026

    Anthropic's IPO prospectus is big on promises, short on answers to tough questions

    With Tom Claburn

  2. 25 Oct 2026

    We really shouldn't be surprised about the PHPocalypse

    With Jessica Lyons and Liam Proven

  3. 18 Oct 2026

    50 years on, there's still nothing like the Voyager probes

    With Garry Hunt

  4. 11 Oct 2026

    ShinyHunters, schminyhunters: Who needs human hackers when you can have Mythos do the hard work?

    With Jessica Lyons and Tom Claburn

  5. 4 Oct 2026

    Anthropic says its IPO could herald the end of the world as we know it

    With Matt Rosoff and Lindsay Clark

  6. 27 Sep 2026

    A new challenger appears: Jev fights LLMs for enterprise supremacy

    With Tom Claburn and Joab Jackson

  7. 20 Sep 2026

    American datacenters might be getting dirtier, but at least they'll be efficient

  8. 13 Sep 2026

    AI is going to kill everyone, and apparently we're just going to let it

  9. 6 Sep 2026

    Jensen's purchase of a new toy could reshape the entire AI industry

    With Dan Robinson and Tom Claburn

  10. 30 Aug 2026

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

  11. 23 Aug 2026

    AI vendors are turning to custom hardware as Microsoft turns back the clock on Windows

  12. 16 Aug 2026

    Black Hat and DEF CON are AI conferences now, too

    With Jessica Lyons

Guests

Tom Claburn (12 episodes), Jessica Lyons (10 episodes), Tobias Mann (8 episodes), Richard Speed (3 episodes), Avram Piltch (3 episodes), Liam Proven (2 episodes), Lindsay Clark (2 episodes), Dan Robinson (2 episodes), Matt Rosoff (2 episodes), Joab Jackson (2 episodes), Thomas Claburn , Simon Sharwood , and 3 more.