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Intel has put a name to its long-anticipated data center AI chip, officially branding it the GPU D-Series. The D two seventy promises one point three petaflops of dense FP eight performance and one point five terabytes per second of memory bandwidth — numbers designed to put pressure on Nvidia in the inference market.
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And in a story that cuts to the heart of what AI tools actually do to creativity, a piece circulating from Kottke raises a quiet but pointed question about prompting language models. The argument is that outsourcing our thinking to AI may cost us the silence and blank-page struggle that actually deepens self-understanding. It's a trade-off worth sitting with.
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