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SOXL sinks 6.8%, Gemini 4 Carbon, and the LLM batching interview question

Chips crack, Google takes the benchmark crown, and we coach you through a classic senior ML systems question. Markets: SOXL -6.78% to $100.07, QQQ -1.48% to $714.87, VUG -1.28% to $87.67, VGT -1.08% to $122.26. AI news: Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon, which claims the top spot on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with major gains in coding, agentic tasks and cybersecurity. Interview Tip of the Day: Design an inference batching server where one GPU handles up to N requests per batch and users wait synchronously. How do you trade latency against throughput, route each result back to…

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