The Hindu

Tamil Nadu Assembly election 2026: VCK to contest eight seats in DMK-led alliance

The Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) led by Thol. Thirumavalavan has been allocated eight seats in the DMK-led Secular Progressive Alliance (SPA) for the upcoming Assembly election in Tamil Nadu.
The Hindu

Tamil Nadu Assembly election 2026: DMDK allotted 10 seats, DMK likely to contest in 175 seats

The ruling DMK on Tuesday (March 24, 2026) almost wrapped up seat-sharing for the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections by allocating as many as 10 seats to its new ally, DMDK (in addition to its earlier ...
VentureBeat

Google's new TurboQuant algorithm speeds up AI memory 8x, cutting costs by 50% or more

As Large Language Models (LLMs) expand their context windows to process massive documents and intricate conversations, they encounter a brutal hardware reality known as the "Key-Value (KV) cache ...
TechCrunch

Google unveils TurboQuant, a new AI memory compression algorithm — and yes, the internet is calling it ‘Pied Piper’

If Google’s AI researchers had a sense of humor, they would have called TurboQuant, the new, ultra-efficient AI memory compression algorithm announced Tuesday, “Pied Piper” — or, at least that’s what ...
Ars Technica

Google’s TurboQuant AI-compression algorithm can reduce LLM memory usage by 6x

Even if you don’t know much about the inner workings of generative AI models, you probably know they need a lot of memory. Hence, it is currently almost impossible to buy a measly stick of RAM without ...