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Daily Digest — 2026-03-18

1. Inference Engineering: AI's Trillion-Dollar Bet — Avid * Why read: Understand why the "model race" is over and the "inference monopoly" has begun. * Summary: Jensen Huang’s $1 trillion forecast for Blackwell systems signals a pivot from training potential to inference production. As intelligence becomes

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