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How Semantic Code Navigation Cuts Agent Token Costs by up to 36%
Adding a KV cache layer to your inference stack can cost you throughput, due to a reason that’s unrelated to caching per se. Cache management runs inside the inference engine’s process today, and the two jobs have opposite bottlenecks: Moving cached tensors between GPU, CPU, and disk waits on I/O. Running attention is heavy math on the GPU. In one process, the engine runs them one at a time, so the GPU sits idle while blocks move between memory tiers. Google’s TurboQuant shrinks the KV cache to 3 bits per value with no accuracy loss.
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How America Turned Against the AI Industry
Hey, Alberto here! 👋 I publish long-form AI analysis covering culture, philosophy, and business. Paid subscribers get Monday how-to guides and Friday news commentary. If you’d like to become a paid subscriber, here’s a button for that: I’m preparing a long post on the recent news about frontier AI agents wreaking havoc, but in the meantime, I’ve written this 3,000-word post after the news that “75% of Americans Now Oppose Local Data Center Development.” The story has gone super viral, and everyone is chiming in. So here are my two cents.
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Postcard is a new email client for GNOME, built with AI
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Michael Polansky is training an AI model on skin that’s still alive
Michael Polansky — better known publicly as Lady Gaga's partner and a former top deputy to Sean Parker — has quietly spent years building an AI-driven startup that keeps living human skin tissue alive for weeks outside the body to discover new skincare compounds, and is only now going public about it.
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Japanese space tech startup Letara expands beyond satellite thrusters with $16M
Japanese space startup Letara is betting its hybrid rocket technology can move beyond small satellite thrusters into a broader market for space, defense and security, after raising ¥2.6 billion ($16 million).
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AI data center builder Nscale reportedly seeking $3B IPO
Nscale Global Holdings Ltd. reportedly plans to raise $3 billion in an initial public offering that could take place as soon as next month. Bloomberg today cited sources as saying that the London-based company intends to list its shares on a U.S. stock exchange. According to the report, it has hired Goldman Sachs Group Inc. […] The post AI data center builder Nscale reportedly seeking $3B IPO appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
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Simulation: the new Scaling Law — Joon Sung Park, Simile AI
When we first dicsussed the Summer of Simulative AI in 2024 we knew it would be a brief summer, but it has recently come back with a vengeance with SimGym in April and now Simile AI’s $2B Series B, backed by GreenOaks and Index Ventures with prominent backers like Fei-Fei Li and Andrej Karpathy, running tens of millions of simulations for Fortune 100 clients like CVS and 85–99% accuracy vs human focus groups.
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ChatGPT Can Take Over Your iMessages. But Do You Really Want That?
OpenAI has launched a new ChatGPT feature that could set off privacy alarms for Apple users. The AI chatbot can now scan through your iMessages if you allow it to. It can also read, write and send texts on your behalf, OpenAI announced in a post on X. Apple’s iMessage is the native messaging service for iPhones and other Apple devices. The new feature, called Apple Messages Plugin, is currently available only to users of ChatGPT Work and Codex on Mac desktops, not on mobile devices.