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British MPs are calling for an investigation following the death of a whistleblower connected to both Howard Lutnick and Jeffrey Epstein. The case raises serious questions about accountability at the intersection of finance, politics, and powerful institutions — and whether those asking uncomfortable questions are adequately protected.
Shifting to the world of AI infrastructure, the Machine Learning Compilation team has released KCoral, a lightweight benchmark server designed specifically for agentic GPU programming. As AI agents take on increasingly complex computational tasks, tools that help developers measure and optimize GPU performance are becoming foundational to the whole ecosystem.
And on the more commercial end of the AI stack, a new service called Plainserp is offering Google search API access for AI agents at thirty cents per thousand queries. It's a simple pitch aimed at developers building search-dependent agents who want to keep costs predictable — a reminder that the real business of AI is often less about models and more about the plumbing around them.
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