The AI boom has fueled dozens of new startups and minted a new class of billionaires. It has also produced a serious shortage of memory chips — a critical component for compute-hungry AI models — which some predict could persist through 2027. This era of RAMageddon isn’t just a corporate problem. As demand spikes and…
The period of tokenmaxxing is over. After the AI business encouraged companies to max out their AI budgets earlier this 12 months, and a few corporations even built employee leaderboards to encourage internal AI usage — they’re now realizing simply how simple it’s to spend enormous sums of cash on AI and get little in…
Slate, maker of the stripped-down EV pickup truck, discovered one other solution to simplify its product: the battery. When the startup revealed its beginning value on Wednesday — $24,950 earlier than vacation spot, taxes, and different charges — it additionally mentioned it had modified its battery technique, eliminating the non-obligatory 240-mile pack however bumping the usual…
The Trump administration has been happier speaking to Anthropic these days, in line with folks conversant in the matter: They don’t must cope with CEO Dario Amodei anymore, as a result of he’s been changed in conferences about re-releasing the Claude Fable 5 AI mannequin by his cofounder Tom Brown. “Tom Brown isn’t being a…
Facebook announced on Wednesday that it’s reimagining its Creator Studio tool as a standalone AI companion app designed to help creators grow their audiences on the social network. By giving creators access to this AI companion app, Meta is looking to keep creators active on Facebook as it competes for their attention against rivals like…
Figma on Wednesday showed off an update that adds a new code layer, support for motion and shaders, and the ability to create custom plugins for various tasks using AI. The design platform has been working on bringing code integration into its tool for a while. Last year, it unveiled an AI prompt-based prototyping tool,…
Zoox has given its custom-built robotaxi a makeover — and not just to make it look sharper. The Amazon-owned company revealed Wednesday a series of upgrades to the comfort and function of its electric, autonomous vehicle based on rider feedback and ahead of what it hopes will be a commercial launch later this year. The…
Qualcomm will purchase the Silicon Valley chip startup Modular for almost $4 billion. The businesses introduced the acquisition on Wednesday; Qualcomm said it expects to subject as much as 19.2 million shares of widespread inventory within the deal, which works out to only below $4 billion primarily based on the corporate’s final closing share value….
Slate Auto, the EV startup backed by billionaire Jeff Bezos, has lastly revealed the beginning worth of its electrical truck: $24,950. That’s excluding taxes, title, license, registration, governmental charges, vacation spot expenses, documentation charges, and any non-compulsory gear, in line with the corporate. Slate began taking preorders for the truck on Wednesday. Crucially, Slate additionally…
Autoregressive large language models generate text one token at a time. Each token waits for the one before it. This serial loop leaves modern GPUs underused and keeps inference slow. The cost grows worse with long Chain-of-Thought reasoning models. Their lengthy outputs make latency the dominant part of generation. Speculative decoding is the standard fix….
