Trendingby GlyphThe brief · Mon Nov 9Jensen Huang jumped to rank 2 as the Nvidia board investigates him over alleged ties to a Chinese spy, creating governance risks for key AI hardware vendors. Nvidia also introduced NVIDIA Kubernetes Engine to manage GPU bare metal deployments. Google moved up to rank 8 with its Google Omni 1.2 Flash launch for cheap AI video generation. Instagram leaped to rank 15 after launching Instagram Edits for Desktop with AI agents. DeepSeek climbed to rank 13 following the release of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash for localized inference.
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this week against lastDemocratsA new name read in Google News and Google News (Serper) titles; not described yet. Why now: Democrats want to freeze data center construction and that is a real problem for AI stocks
NvidiaThe chipmaker whose GPUs train and run most AI models. Why now: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair
AMDThe chipmaker behind Ryzen and EPYC processors and Instinct AI accelerators. Why now: Good Luck Getting a Cheap GPU. AMD Is a 'Data Center First Company,' CEO Says
GPT-6A version of OpenAI's GPT language models. Why now: GPT-5.6 Sol keeps reverting to GPT-6
LinuxThe open-source operating system kernel behind most servers and Android. Why now: RAM Altman: Linux Script Emails Sam Altman Daily How Much Unused RAM in Your PC
TeslaElon Musk's electric car and energy company, also building self-driving software and the Optimus robot. Why now: Tesla to wind down Cybertruck productionJensen HuangThe co-founder and chief executive of Nvidia. Why now: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair
BaiduThe Chinese search company behind the Ernie models. Why now: Baidu released ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base
VercelThe cloud platform for web apps, maker of Next.js and v0. Why now: Vercel ties login sessions to devices, rolls out AI security reviews in public betaOpenAIThe AI lab behind ChatGPT, the GPT models and Codex. Why now: OpenAI raises $11B at a $1.25T valuation
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Prompt engineeringWriting and testing the instructions given to a model to get reliable answers. 30 mentions in 14 days.Mixture of expertsModels split into many expert blocks with only a few active per token, so they grow in size without growing in cost. 72 mentions in 14 days.Context engineeringDeciding what goes into a model's context window, and in what order: instructions, retrieved documents, tools and memory. 20 mentions in 14 days.Computer useAgents that operate a computer the way a person does, reading the screen and moving the mouse and keyboard. 36 mentions in 14 days.Vector databasesDatabases that store embeddings and find the nearest ones fast, the retrieval layer under RAG and semantic search. 13 mentions in 14 days.