Windows 11 users have heard Microsoft’s promises before. That’s the problem

Microsoft pledged last week to improve Windows 11. As a Windows Insider, I received an email of the full memo, sent out ...

Google's TurboQuant compression tech cuts LLM memory use by 6x with no accuracy loss

The biggest memory burden for LLMs is the key-value cache, which stores conversational context as users interact with AI ...

IndexCache, a new sparse attention optimizer, delivers 1.82x faster inference on long-context AI models

Researchers at Tsinghua University and Z.ai built IndexCache to eliminate redundant computation in sparse attention models ...

Google AI breakthrough shows why we don't need more data centers

That much was clear in 2025, when we first saw China's DeepSeek — a slimmer, lighter LLM that required way less data center ...