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Visual Studio Code previews chat customizations editor

Just-released Version 1.113 of Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code editor emphasizes improvements ranging from chat customizations to support for MCP (Model Context Protocol) in Copilot CLI and Claude agents. Released March 25, VS Code can be downloaded for Windows, Linux, or Mac via the VS Code download webpage. VS Code 1.113 closely follows VS Code Versions…

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Nvidia’s Shift from GPUs and AI ‘Inference King’ Economics

GPUs are still important for Nvidia, which held its GPU Technology Conference (GTC) last week in San Jose. But the importance of GPUs appears to be waning as the AI boom is creating a surge in demand for general purpose CPUs and other processor types that offer advantages for AI inference. Nvidia wants to control…

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Databricks pitches Lakewatch as a cheaper SIEM — but is it really?

Databricks has previewed a new open agentic Security Information and Event Management software (SIEM) named Lakewatch that signals its first deliberate step beyond data warehousing into security analytics. The data warehouse-provider is pitching Lakewatch as a lower-cost alternative to traditional security tools, arguing that consolidating security analytics into its data platform can reduce overall spend….

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Google targets AI inference bottlenecks with TurboQuant

Google says its new TurboQuant method could improve how efficiently AI models run by compressing the key-value cache used in LLM inference and supporting more efficient vector search. In tests on Gemma and Mistral models, the company reported significant memory savings and faster runtime with no measurable accuracy loss, including a 6x reduction in memory…

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