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Google Deepmind CEO says the memory shortage is creating an AI ‘choke point’

The memory shortage takes no prisoners. Even Google isn’t immune.AI companies are duking it out for greater and greater quantities of memory chips. The problem? The industry is heavily supply-constrained. Costs have skyrocketed, products have been tied up, and some companies — especially those in consumer electronics — are increasing…

The memory shortage is driving up the cost of your next laptop

Did that computer you were eyeing jump in price? Is that gaming handheld out of stock? You might want to practice a new refrain: Thanks, memory shortage.As AI companies demand increasingly large troves of chips to power their large language models, memory chips remain in short supply. That’s bad news…

Ukraine’s New Defense Minister Outlines Sheer Scale of Troop Shortage

Around 2 million Ukrainians are dodging military drafts, while another 200,000 are absent without official leave, or AWOL, Kyiv’s newly appointed defense minister said on Wednesday.The tally revealed by Mykhailo Fedorov is a rare disclosure by the Ukrainian leadership about the troop shortages the country has grappled with throughout the…