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Today's topics:

AI helps homework, hurts exams - A study of 27,000 students found AI boosted homework scores but hurt closed-book exam performance, raising concerns about learning, memory, and independent thinking.

Engineering teams question AI ROI - DX reports AI adoption above 90% across engineering teams, but ROI is uneven. Velocity gains are real, while code trust, review speed, and delivery quality remain key pain points.

Better harnesses beat bigger models - Nvidia says agent performance on long tasks can depend more on the harness than the LLM itself. A separate avatar-agent paper also points to scaffolding and training around tools as a major advantage.

Memory becomes AI's real bottleneck - From PagedAttention to large-scale Transformer parallelism, new analysis shows AI performance is increasingly limited by memory and communication. Micron's $10 billion Boise lab underscores how strategic AI memory has become.

Workplace AI raises privacy stakes - OpenAI's ChatGPT for Mac can now work with Apple Messages, while Anthropic may let enterprises keep retained data in their own cloud. A leaked Claude meeting recorder suggests AI assistants are moving deeper into workplace workflows.

Nvidia expands startup power network - Nvidia reportedly struck a major licensing and investment deal with Poolside, showing how big AI infrastructure players are building influence through capital, partnerships, and access to talent.

Human judgment pushes back - Researchers and writers are warning against treating AI like human intelligence or passing along unreviewed AI output. As synthetic content spreads, authenticity, editing, and judgment are becoming more valuable.

-Slack launches Code channels to make AI coding collaborative
-Google Brings Antigravity to Gemini Enterprise
-Study Finds AI Improves Homework But Hurts Exam Performance
-Algolia says LLM leaderboards help agent builders choose the right model
-How to Parallelize a Transformer for Training
-DX Report Finds AI Boosting Engineering Speed but Not Yet ROI
-Spectro Cloud Promotes AMD Instinct Coder as a Lower-Cost AI Coding Stack
-PagedAttention Brings Virtual Memory to the KV Cache
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