Today's AI Dispatch unpacks five major items: Advantest's record chip-tester sales on AI demand, DeepMind's AlphaGenome that reads the genome's regulatory "recipe," industry public debate over AI-generated music and Bandcamp's ban, and N-able's announcement of agentic AI for SMB cyber resilience.
Five timely stories this morning give us a compact view of where AI is moving-technically, economically, and culturally:
Hardware demand follow-through: Advantest reported record quarterly sales and raised forecasts as AI chip testing demand remains robust - a reminder that model growth still translates into real, upstream hardware and test-equipment economics.
