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TurboQuant Algorithm Lowers LLM Costs Without Accuracy Loss

TurboQuant Algorithm Lowers LLM Costs Without Accuracy Loss

Google’s TurboQuant is making waves in the AI hardware sector by addressing long-standing challenges in memory usage and processing efficiency. Developed with components like the Quantized Johnson-Lindenstrauss Algorithm, TurboQuant achieves up to sixfold reductions in memory requirements while preserving model accuracy. This compression algorithm also accelerates processing speeds by as much as eight times, allowing faster and more cost-effective deployment of large language models (LLMs). As Wes Roth explains, these advancements are reshaping how enterprises approach AI infrastructure, with significant implications for both operational efficiency and the broader hardware market. Explore how TurboQuant’s capabilities translate into practical benefits, from reducing inference costs by 50% to optimizing GPU utilization for existing hardware. Gain insight into its potential to extend context windows and support larger models, opening doors for more sophisticated AI applications. Additionally, understand the ripple effects on the memory chip market, where declining demand for high-capacity components signals a shift in industry dynamics. This overview provides a clear breakdown of TurboQuant’s impact on AI accessibility, cost structures and future adoption trends. Key Innovations Behind TurboQuant …

How Flipboard’s new Surf app lets you merge social feeds, YouTube, and RSS to escape the algorithm – finally

How Flipboard’s new Surf app lets you merge social feeds, YouTube, and RSS to escape the algorithm – finally

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Can a new social network make it? Flipboard Surf has a shot. Surf combines social networks with text, video, and audio feeds. Think of Surf as the anti-algorithm, anti-AI-slop social network. I’ll give Flipboard, the once-popular tablet news aggregator site, credit for chutzpah.  Also: A Meta-powered investment scam is spreading across 25 countries – how to spot (and avoid) it After a year in beta, its new Android app and website, Surf, go beyond simple news aggregation to incorporate content from social networking protocols like ActivityPub, AT Protocol, and good old Real Simple Syndication (RSS), enabling you to craft custom feeds blending posts and blogs from social networks such as Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads.  But, wait, there’s more Surf also lets you blend in podcasts and YouTube channels, making it a one-stop shop for your web reading, listening, and viewing. As Mike McCue, Flipboard and Surf’s CEO, explained in a statement, Surf’s mission is to help “podcasters, creators, …

Software engineers design algorithm to solve pizza topping arguments

Software engineers design algorithm to solve pizza topping arguments

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Pepperoni or anchovies? Mushrooms or black olives? And what about the ever popular and polarizing pineapple? Pizza topping preferences are as varied as the people who order them. While that’s fine for one or two hungry friends, planning multiple pies for a larger group can quickly turn tense. Most of the time, it feels like diners simply settle on one-topping or cheese pizzas in the hopes of avoiding an argument. From a technical standpoint, it is definitely possible to figure out the optimal pizza toppings based on a group’s various tastes. However, the time it takes to chart out and settle on the most democratically representative dishes may risk devolving into a dreaded “hangry” shouting match. Thankfully, a software engineer has a solution. The recently launched Pizza Voter website is a free-to-use platform that allows you to email a pizza party invitation to every participant in an upcoming meal. Once accepted, each person then clicks whether they Love, Hate, …

Google’s new TurboQuant algorithm speeds up AI memory 8x, cutting costs by 50% or more

Google’s new TurboQuant algorithm speeds up AI memory 8x, cutting costs by 50% or more

As Large Language Models (LLMs) expand their context windows to process massive documents and intricate conversations, they encounter a brutal hardware reality known as the “Key-Value (KV) cache bottleneck.” Every word a model processes must be stored as a high-dimensional vector in high-speed memory. For long-form tasks, this “digital cheat sheet” swells rapidly, devouring the graphics processing unit (GPU) video random access memory (VRAM) system used during inference, and slowing the model performance down rapidly over time. But have no fear, Google Research is here: yesterday, the unit within the search giant released its TurboQuant algorithm suite — a software-only breakthrough that provides the mathematical blueprint for extreme KV cache compression, enabling a 6x reduction on average in the amount of KV memory a given model uses, and 8x performance increase in computing attention logits, which could reduce costs for enterprises that implement it on their models by more than 50%. The theoretically grounded algorithms and associated research papers are available now publicly for free, including for enterprise usage, offering a training-free solution to reduce …

The Far-Right Algorithm: Anti-Churchill, Anti-West

The Far-Right Algorithm: Anti-Churchill, Anti-West

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube On this week’s episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts on President Trump’s recent comments that appear to show a desire to back away from his war in Iran. David argues that Trump is comfortable as a “wartime” president as long as the enemy is American Democrats, and compares the president’s rhetoric about Iran with his rhetoric about his fellow Americans. Then, David is joined by the historian and journalist Andrew Roberts to discuss why right-wing podcasters seem so fixated on insisting that Winston Churchill was the villain of the Second World War. Frum and Roberts discuss the origins of pseudo-historians and why they appeal so much to the American right. Finally, David ends the episode with a discussion of the novel Burr, by Gore Vidal, and the relationship between art and morality. The following is a transcript of the episode: David Frum: Hello, and welcome back to The David Frum Show. I’m David Frum, a staff writer at The …

The 5-step algorithm that’s transforming legacy companies

The 5-step algorithm that’s transforming legacy companies

From The Algorithm: The Hypergrowth Formula That Transformed Tesla, Lululemon, General Motors, and SpaceX by Jon McNeill. Published by Portfolio, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC. Copyright (c) 2026. When I started at Tesla, I assumed that Elon and I looked at work processes from much the same perspective. This was true, but only to a degree. The company had gone from a start-up to a large manufacturer without really defining how to solve problems and scale. Instead, incredible talent and creativity in the moment drove many breakthroughs. But as Tesla grew, the whole team began to define an entire operating system that emphasized speed and simplicity. The objective: exponential growth. Elon called this formula “the Algorithm.” To survive in the twenty-first century, older companies need growth and efficiency just as much as anyone. The steps of the Algorithm can lead to dramatic improvement in speed and quality, even in the most venerable enterprises. Consider General Motors. The century-old behemoth has a reputation, gained over the decades, for …

‘Tyranny of the algorithm’: Why every coffee shop is starting to look the same

‘Tyranny of the algorithm’: Why every coffee shop is starting to look the same

Get the Well Enough newsletter with Harry Bullmore for tips on living a healthier, happier and longer life Get the Well Enough email with Harry Bullmore Get the Well Enough email with Harry Bullmore Like many young, urban professionals, we run on coffee. We especially enjoy frequenting independently owned cafes that pride themselves on ethically sourced beverages, strong local ties and a hip aesthetic. They’re the kinds of places that sneer at the homogenization and predictability of Tim Hortons, Second Cup, Dunkin and Starbucks. But as public space and consumer culture researchers, we began noticing a pattern: While the invention of new, nondairy milks to mix into lattes continues to amaze us, many U.S. coffee shops seemed to share a similar aesthetic. What was up with all the exposed brick? Why did so many of the baristas look cooler than us, but also so similar to one another? And why did most menus appear on a chalkboard, as if we were still in kindergarten? Weren’t we supposed to be in one-of-a-kind, authentic settings that make …

X’s feed algorithm shifts users’ political opinions to the right, new study finds

X’s feed algorithm shifts users’ political opinions to the right, new study finds

Social media algorithms are not politically neutral and can actively shape a person’s political opinions. A recent study published in the journal Nature provides evidence that switching on the algorithmic feed on the platform X shifted users’ political views toward the right. Turning the algorithm off did not reverse this effect, which suggests that algorithms can leave a lasting footprint on a person’s information environment. X, formerly known as Twitter, is a major platform for political news and public conversation. The platform offers two primary ways to view content. The chronological feed simply displays posts from accounts a user actively follows in the exact order they were posted, with the newest at the top. The algorithmic feed relies on complex mathematical rules to suggest and order content. It shows posts from unknown accounts and prioritizes items designed to keep the user engaged, such as posts with many likes and comments. The scientists behind the new study wanted to understand if these customized feeds actually change how people view the world. Past studies on other social …

Hasan Piker on influence and journalism in the algorithm age | Censorship

Hasan Piker on influence and journalism in the algorithm age | Censorship

Hasan Piker has built one of the largest online political audiences, reaching millions without newsroom oversight or traditional editorial constraints. In this episode of Talk to Al Jazeera, the influential streamer reflects on bias, accountability, wealth, bans and the blurred line between journalism and digital influence. As algorithms replace editors and engagement supplants verification, we examine who shapes political narratives in the age of streaming and what responsibilities accompany that power. Published On 15 Feb 202615 Feb 2026 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Source link

Spotify’s Prompted Playlist lets you micromanage your own algorithm

Spotify’s Prompted Playlist lets you micromanage your own algorithm

For years, Spotify’s recommendation engine has felt like a mind reader. It quietly tracks what you play, skip, save, and replay, then serves up Discover Weekly, Release Radar, and an endless stream of algorithmically generated playlists designed to know your taste better than you know it yourself. With its new feature, Prompted Playlist, Spotify is experimenting with a different idea: What if users didn’t just receive recommendations, but actively shaped them? Prompted Playlist, now launching for Spotify users in the U.S., is a new way to create playlists using personalized prompts, allowing listeners to guide Spotify’s algorithm with greater intent and context. Instead of starting with a blank playlist or relying entirely on automated suggestions, users can describe what they want and let Spotify build from there. It’s a subtle shift, but one built around the idea of less passive consumption and more collaboration. How Spotify’s Prompted Playlist works At its core, Prompted Playlist lets users generate playlists by entering a written prompt — anything from a mood or activity to a more imaginative musical …