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Large language models face speed bottlenecks due to KV cache, batching, and quantization challenges, and modern AI systems employ techniques to overcome these issues.
Upbit, Korea's largest crypto exchange, will list Gensyn ($AI) in KRW, BTC, and USDT trading pairs starting June 30, 2026. The decentralized AI compute token, backed by a16z and Galaxy Digital, gains direct access to Kor…
Activist hedge fund Jana Partners disclosed a 6.3% stake in Alkami Technology and is publicly demanding a sale, citing AI pressure on community bank software. Jana argues the company trades at a discount to its intrinsic…
Ford Motor Company has rehired hundreds of experienced quality control engineers after its AI-driven quality systems failed to detect defects effectively. The automaker brought back over 350 veteran engineers over three …
Cisco and the USGA deployed an AI-ready network for the 2026 U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills, using a fully redundant mobile core design to handle challenging terrain, crowds, and environmental conditions. The network, fea…
Korean safety AI firm Intellivix, profitable for 13 consecutive years, is expanding its AI video analytics technology to Japan and Southeast Asia. CEO Choi Eun-soo aims to transform CCTV from a post-incident monitoring t…
Base44, acquired by Wix for $80 million in 2025, launched its own AI model Base 1 on June 29 to reduce reliance on third-party models and improve margins. The move comes as Base44 reaches $150 million in annual recurring…
A developer who previously advised founders to use AI APIs directly now recommends against it after witnessing a team waste three weeks on signup friction. The developer argues that the AI API landscape has become fragme…
Base44, the Wix-owned vibe coding platform, launched its proprietary large language model Base 1, becoming the first app-creation tool to deploy a homegrown model in production. The move aims to control AI inference cost…
Samsung Electro-Mechanics signed a 454 billion-won ($293 million) contract to supply multilayer ceramic capacitors for AI servers to a U.S. customer, likely a major cloud provider. The single-year deal reflects tightenin…
China's official manufacturing PMI rose to 50.3 in June, marking four consecutive months of expansion, driven by a surge in exports of AI-related hardware. However, the employment sub-index remained in contraction at 48.…
Enterprises are granting autonomous AI agents privileged access to critical workflows and APIs without proper governance, creating a new class of privileged non-human identities (NHIs). The scale and autonomy of these ag…
Base44, the vibe coding platform acquired by Wix for $80 million a year ago, has launched its own AI model, Base1, to improve latency, cost, and efficiency. The move addresses concerns about defensibility for startups re…
Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas argued that US export controls on advanced chips are inadvertently accelerating Chinese AI innovation, citing DeepSeek's advances in memory-efficient models. He warned that China's abil…
Samsung Electro-Mechanics secured a $294 million contract to supply multilayer ceramic capacitors for AI servers to an unnamed U.S. Big Tech firm, likely a cloud service provider. The one-year deal, starting January 2025…
Microsoft launched MAI-Code-1-Flash, a 137B-parameter sparse Mixture-of-Experts model with 5B active parameters, in GitHub Copilot on June 2, one day after GitHub switched to usage-based AI Credits billing. The model out…
A historical pattern of gold rushes, from the 1853 discovery of Crater Lake by gold prospectors to the modern AI data-center boom, illustrates that while invention may accelerate, the diffusion of technology through infr…
Ford rehired about 300 veteran engineers after AI tools failed to address quality issues in production, leading to the company topping the JD Power 2026 US Initial Quality Study for the first time since 2010. The automak…
Digital Realty paid $27 million per megawatt for three leased AI data centers, setting a new valuation benchmark for stabilized AI infrastructure. The price dwarfs typical lease valuations of $400,000 to $550,000 per meg…
Taiwanese authorities raided Supermicro's Taiwan office and eight other locations as part of a U.S. federal probe into alleged AI chip smuggling to China, signaling a potential shift in Taiwan's enforcement of U.S. expor…