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Two Verbs That Run the World

Every AI company lives or dies by two operations — training and inference — and the fight over who controls them is reshaping capital, silicon, and the balance of power between Washington and Beijing.

Marcus Hayes
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When the Cloud Stops Being the Brain

Inference is quietly migrating off the datacenter and into the device in your hand — and the builders who understand the new latency, privacy and cost math will own the next four years.

Alex Chen