DeepSeek cut prices 75%. The 100x problem remains

DeepSeek's recent decision to drastically cut pricing on its V4-Pro model by 75% should have been unequivocally good news for ...
Tech Times

OpenAI Halves Inference Costs With Software Alone: GPUs Drop to Hundreds

OpenAI inference cost reduction cut ChatGPT guest traffic from tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs to just a couple hundred, ...

OpenAI engineers cut ChatGPT guest traffic to a few hundred Nvidia GPUs, with no new hardware deployed.

OpenAI inference cost reduction cut ChatGPT guest traffic from tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs to just a couple hundred, using software optimization alone. Engineers achieved more than 50% savings ...
Analytics Insight

How AI is Transforming SQL Query Performance in 2026

How schema-aware AI SQL tools are reducing query failures, improving accuracy rates up to 90%, and helping non-technical teams access enterprise data without waiting for analysts. AI-driven SQL tools ...
Helsinki

Valter Uotila defends his PhD thesis on Quantum Computing Methods for Query Optimization in Relational Databases

On Friday the 13th of March 2026, M.Sc. Valter Uotila defends his PhD thesis on Quantum Computing Methods for Query Optimization in Relational Databases. The thesis is related to research done in the ...
Microsoft

Teaching small language models to think like optimization experts with OptiMind

OptiMind is a specialized language model that translates natural-language problem descriptions directly into solver-ready mathematical optimization formulations. This removes one of the most expertise ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Minimum Energy Per Query

Extracting heat from a chip faster is a short-term fix to a bigger problem. The longer-term challenge is how to reduce the amount of energy used per query. Data movement, guardbanding, and software ...
InfoQ

Autonomous Big Data Optimization: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning to Achieve Self-Tuning Apache Spark

A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with ...
crossjoin.co.uk

Calculate(), DAX Fusion And Filters On 0 In Power BI

Here’s a fun DAX performance tip that I found this week. Do you have measures that use Calculate() with a filter on a numeric column? Is one of the filters on the value 0? If so then this may affect ...
VentureBeat

Inside Intuit’s GenOS update: Why prompt optimization and intelligent data cognition are critical to enterprise agentic AI success

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Enterprise AI teams face a costly dilemma: ...
MIT Technology Review

We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.

The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next. AI’s integration into our lives is ...