SOXL sinks 6.8%, Gemini 4 Carbon, and the LLM batching interview question

Chips crack, Google takes the benchmark crown, and we coach you through a classic senior ML systems question. Markets: SOXL -6.78% to $100.07, QQQ -1.48% to $714.87, VUG -1.28% to $87.67, VGT -1.08% to $122.26. AI news: Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon, which claims the top spot on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with major gains in coding, agentic tasks and cybersecurity. Interview Tip of the Day: Design an inference batching server where one GPU handles up to N requests per batch and users wait synchronously. How do you trade latency against throughput, route each result back to the right caller, and why does continuous batching beat static batching for LLMs with variable output lengths? Did You Know: Linus Torvalds announced Linux in 1991 as just a hobby that wouldn't be big and professional. Questions or feedback: [email protected]