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  • The Cloudflare Blog: Quicksilver v2: evolution of a globally distributed key-value store (Part 2)

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    Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/quicksilver-v2-evolution-of-a-globally-distributed-key-value-store-part-2-of-2/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Quicksilver v2: evolution of a globally distributed key-value store (Part 2) Feedly Summary: This is part two of a story about how we overcame the challenges of making a complex system more scalable. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text describes the evolution of Cloudflare’s Quicksilver,…

  • Slashdot: Scale AI Lays Off 200 Employees: ‘We Ramped Up Our GenAI Capacity Too Quickly’

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/07/16/2058240/scale-ai-lays-off-200-employees-we-ramped-up-our-genai-capacity-too-quickly?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Scale AI Lays Off 200 Employees: ‘We Ramped Up Our GenAI Capacity Too Quickly’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Scale AI is undergoing significant restructuring, laying off 14% of its workforce while pivoting its generative AI business to improve efficiency and adapt to shifting market demands.…

  • Cloud Blog: Build with more flexibility: New open models arrive in the Vertex AI Model Garden

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/deepseek-r1-is-available-for-everyone-in-vertex-ai-model-garden/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Build with more flexibility: New open models arrive in the Vertex AI Model Garden Feedly Summary: In our ongoing effort to provide businesses with the flexibility and choice needed to build innovative AI applications, we are expanding the catalog of open models available as Model-as-a-Service (MaaS) offerings in…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Voxtral

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/16/voxtral/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Voxtral Feedly Summary: Voxtral Mistral released their first audio-input models yesterday: Voxtral Small and Voxtral Mini. These state‑of‑the‑art speech understanding models are available in two sizes—a 24B variant for production-scale applications and a 3B variant for local and edge deployments. Both versions are released under the Apache…

  • Cloud Blog: Go beyond data: Four steps to master enterprise excellence

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/partners/beyond-data-what-it-takes-to-win-with-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Go beyond data: Four steps to master enterprise excellence Feedly Summary: Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of five blog posts dedicated to data transformation powered by Google Cloud and its ecosystem of data and analytics partners.  Everyone is trying to determine how best to…

  • Cloud Blog: How Renault Group is using Google’s software-defined vehicle industry solution

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-development/renault-groups-software-defined-vehicles-built-on-google-cloud/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How Renault Group is using Google’s software-defined vehicle industry solution Feedly Summary: It’s funny to think of Renault Group, the massive European car manufacturer, as a software company, but in many ways, it is. Renault Group subsidiary Ampere Software Technology is dedicated to developing and integrating advanced software…

  • The Register: Google plugs AI into nuclear reactor biz – what could possibly go wrong?

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/16/google_westinghouse_ai_nuclear/ Source: The Register Title: Google plugs AI into nuclear reactor biz – what could possibly go wrong? Feedly Summary: Westinghouse taps Big G’s cloud smarts to speed up atomic plant builds and keep the grid humming While AI systems are known to spew wrong information and make up facts, Google and Westinghouse…

  • The Cloudflare Blog: Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025

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    Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-1-1-1-1-incident-on-july-14-2025/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025 Feedly Summary: July 14th, 2025, Cloudflare made a change to our service topologies that caused an outage for 1.1.1.1 on the edge, causing downtime for 62 minutes for customers using the 1.1.1.1 public DNS Resolver. AI Summary and Description: Yes…