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Daily A.I. Brief · August 16th
From storyflo. This is your daily audio brief. Hey, it's Theo. August 16th. Five things in tech that mattered this morning — let's start with the one that surprised me most. Let's get into it. First, from IEEE Spectrum AI. The CPU Comeback Is Upon Us. AWS’s engineers are suddenly being told to squeeze every last CPU cycle because the AI boom has flooded the cloud with GPU‑heavy jobs, but the real bottleneck is showing up on the CPUs that handle the “glue” work. When an LLM starts calling tools—opening files, hitting APIs, or running small helper models—the heavy lifting shifts to the…
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