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  • Cloud Blog: High performance storage innovations for your AI workloads

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer/high-performance-storage-innovations-for-ai-hpc/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: High performance storage innovations for your AI workloads Feedly Summary: The high-performance storage stack in AI Hypercomputer incorporates learnings from geographic regions, zones, and GPU/TPU architectures, to create an agile, economical, integrated storage architecture. Recently, we’ve made several innovations to improve accelerator utilization with high-performance storage, helping you…

  • Cloud Blog: Looker adds AI-fueled visual, conversational data exploration, continuous integration

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/looker-bi-platform-gets-ai-powered-data-exploration/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Looker adds AI-fueled visual, conversational data exploration, continuous integration Feedly Summary: Today at Google Cloud Next ‘25, we’re announcing a major step in making Looker the most powerful platform for data analysis and exploration,by enhancing it with powerful AI capabilities and a new reporting experience, all built on…

  • Cloud Blog: New GKE inference capabilities reduce costs, tail latency and increase throughput

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/understanding-new-gke-inference-capabilities/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: New GKE inference capabilities reduce costs, tail latency and increase throughput Feedly Summary: When it comes to AI, inference is where today’s generative AI models can solve real-world business problems. Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is seeing increasing adoption of gen AI inference. For example, customers like HubX run…

  • Cloud Blog: Accelerate your analytics: New Bigtable SQL capabilities drive real-time insights

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/accelerate-your-analytics-with-new-bigtable-sql-capabilities/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Accelerate your analytics: New Bigtable SQL capabilities drive real-time insights Feedly Summary: For decades, businesses have wrestled with unlocking the true potential of their data for real-time operations. Bigtable, Google Cloud’s pioneering NoSQL database, has been the engine behind massive-scale, low-latency applications that operate at a global scale.…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-fragments-go

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/10/llm-fragments-go/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-fragments-go Feedly Summary: llm-fragments-go Filippo Valsorda released the first plugin by someone other than me that uses LLM’s new register_fragment_loaders() plugin hook I announced the other day. Install with llm install llm-fragments-go and then: You can feed the docs of a Go package into LLM using the…

  • The Register: Amazon Nova Sonic AI doesn’t just hear you, it takes tonal cues too

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/10/amazon_nova_sonic_speech_model/ Source: The Register Title: Amazon Nova Sonic AI doesn’t just hear you, it takes tonal cues too Feedly Summary: The foundation model supports real-time bi-directional speech Amazon has introduced a foundation model that claims to grasp not just what you’re saying, but how you’re saying it – tone, hesitation, and more.… AI…

  • The Cloudflare Blog: Making Super Slurper 5x faster with Workers, Durable Objects, and Queues

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    Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/making-super-slurper-five-times-faster/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Making Super Slurper 5x faster with Workers, Durable Objects, and Queues Feedly Summary: We re-architected Super Slurper from the ground up using our Developer Platform — leveraging Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects, and Queues — and improved transfer speeds by up to 5x. AI Summary and Description: Yes…

  • The Register: Google offers 7th-gen Ironwood TPUs for AI, with AI-inspired comparisons

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/10/googles_7thgen_ironwood_tpus_debut/ Source: The Register Title: Google offers 7th-gen Ironwood TPUs for AI, with AI-inspired comparisons Feedly Summary: Sure, we’re doing FP8 versus a supercomputer’s FP64. What of it? Cloud Next Google’s seventh-generation Tensor Processing Units (TPU), announced Wednesday, will soon be available to cloud customers to rent in pods of 256 or 9,216…

  • Cloud Blog: Day 1 at Google Cloud Next 25 recap

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/google-cloud-next/next25-day-1-recap/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Day 1 at Google Cloud Next 25 recap Feedly Summary: Hello from Google Cloud Next 25 in Las Vegas! This year, it’s all about how AI can reimagine work and improve our lives — even bringing Hollywood classics like The Wizard of Oz to life on one of…

  • Cloud Blog: Introducing Ironwood TPUs and new innovations in AI Hypercomputer

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/whats-new-with-ai-hypercomputer/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Introducing Ironwood TPUs and new innovations in AI Hypercomputer Feedly Summary: Today’s innovation isn’t born in a lab or at a drafting board; it’s built on the bedrock of AI infrastructure. AI workloads have new and unique demands — addressing these requires a finely crafted combination of hardware…