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Google is quietly working on a new AI chip aimed at making its Gemini models run more efficiently. For Alphabet, this is about control and cost — designing silicon in-house means less dependence on Nvidia and potentially significant savings as Gemini scales across millions of users.
Meanwhile, Cognition, the company behind the AI coding agent Devin, has acquired TierZero to push Devin further into production operations. This is a meaningful step — moving an AI agent from writing code in a sandbox to actually managing live infrastructure is a different kind of trust, and a much higher-stakes one.
And in South Korea, the Bank of Korea is expanding its digital currency pilot to half a million users in Phase two of Project Hangang. Unlike earlier trials, this phase moves real government money, making it one of the most serious central bank digital currency experiments anywhere in the world right now.
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