Rob Williams knows how to pitch Jeff Bezos: You write a press release as if your product has already been built. Bezos reads it and gives a thumbs up or down. Williams went through this process a lot ...

Welcome to The Athletic’s Premier League predictions challenge, which I’m horrified to have to say has been won by the subscribers. Yes, Arsenal fan Neel from New Delhi held his nerve on the final day ...

Pope Leo XIV on Monday launched an impassioned call for regulation of artificial intelligence, warning that “opaque algorithms,” controlled by a handful of powerful private companies, can bring “new ...

HANGZHOU, China, May 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Hikvision has announced the launch of Guanlan Encoding, an AI-powered video compression technology that delivers 30%–50% average storage savings without ...

It’s hard to ignore the seismic shifts brought about by algorithm-driven content. Every time you scroll through your social media feed or check your favorite news app, algorithms are diligently at ...

CompressKit is an educational, verification-focused repository for comparing four classic compression algorithms across three implementation languages. It is not a black-box package: the point is to ...

"Optimization demands understanding hardware constraints at the silicon level," reflects Shaibujan Thankappan Kamalamma, whose career spans video codec work, streaming systems, and enterprise security ...

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 ...

Intel and Nvidia showed off their respective AI-powered texture-compression technologies over the weekend, demonstrating impressive reductions in VRAM use while maintaining texture quality, or even ...

Memory prices are falling, and stock prices of memory companies took a hit, following news from Google Research of a breakthrough that will greatly reduce the amount of memory needed for AI processing ...

In a blog post published last week, Google announced that its scientists had developed an AI memory-compression algorithm, dubbed TurboQuant. "We introduce a set of advanced, theoretically grounded ...

Google has introduced TurboQuant, a compression algorithm that reduces large language model (LLM) memory usage by at least 6x while boosting performance, targeting one of AI's most persistent ...