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title: 'The Pulse #191: a new trend of CPU shortages'
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published: 2026-09-10T17:13:44Z
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summary: 'For compute-intensive services: it’s worth reserving more compute now. Also: growth dreams end for more COVID-era unicorns, engineers losing touch with systems when AI handles incidents, and more'
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### For compute-intensive services: it’s worth reserving more compute now. Also: growth dreams end for more COVID-era unicorns, engineers losing touch with systems when AI handles incidents, and more

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Sep 10, 2026

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*The Pulse is a series covering events, insights, and trends within Big Tech and startups.*

Today, we cover:

1. **New trend of CPU shortages:** after a GPU shortage and memory shortage driven by AI companies, we’re now experienceding a CPU shortage, thanks to AI agents using a lot more CPU with tool usage. If you will need more compute in the future: secure it now…