Tag: Cloud

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/6/deloitte-to-pay-money-back/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Deloitte to pay money back to Albanese government after using AI in $440,000 report Feedly Summary: Deloitte to pay money back to Albanese government after using AI in $440,000 report Ouch: Deloitte will provide a partial refund to the federal government over a $440,000 report that contained…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: a system that can do work independently on behalf of the user

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/6/work-independently/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: a system that can do work independently on behalf of the user Feedly Summary: I’ve settled on agents as meaning “LLMs calling tools in a loop to achieve a goal" but OpenAI continue to muddy the waters with much more vague definitions. Swyx spotted this one in…

AWS News Blog: Introducing new compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instances

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Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-new-compute-optimized-amazon-ec2-c8i-and-c8i-flex-instances/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Introducing new compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instances Feedly Summary: AWS launched compute-optimized C8i and C8i-flex EC2 instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS to offer up to 15% better price performance, 20% higher performance, and 2.5 times more memory throughput…

Docker: IBM Granite 4.0 Models Now Available on Docker Hub

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Source URL: https://www.docker.com/blog/ibm-granite-4-0-models-now-available-on-docker-hub/ Source: Docker Title: IBM Granite 4.0 Models Now Available on Docker Hub Feedly Summary: Developers can now discover and run IBM’s latest open-source Granite 4.0 language models from the Docker Hub model catalog, and start building in minutes with Docker Model Runner. Granite 4.0 pairs strong, enterprise-ready performance with a lightweight footprint,…

AWS News Blog: AWS IAM Identity Center now supports customer-managed KMS keys for encryption at rest

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Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-iam-identity-center-now-supports-customer-managed-kms-keys-for-encryption-at-rest/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: AWS IAM Identity Center now supports customer-managed KMS keys for encryption at rest Feedly Summary: Gain control over encryption and comply with regulations using customer-managed keys for AWS IAM Identity Center’s user data and passwords. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the new feature…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: GPT-5 pro

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/6/gpt-5-pro/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: GPT-5 pro Feedly Summary: GPT-5 pro Here’s OpenAI’s model documentation for their GPT-5 pro model, released to their API today at their DevDay event. It has similar base characteristics to GPT-5: both share a September 30, 2024 knowledge cutoff and 400,000 context limit. GPT-5 pro has maximum…

Cloud Blog: 11 ways to reduce your Google Cloud compute costs today

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/cost-saving-strategies-when-migrating-to-google-cloud-compute/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: 11 ways to reduce your Google Cloud compute costs today Feedly Summary: As the saying goes, “a penny saved is a penny earned," and this couldn’t be more true when it comes to cloud infrastructure. In today’s competitive business landscape, you need to maintain the performance to meet…

AWS News Blog: AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock, AWS Outposts, Amazon ECS Managed Instances, AWS Builder ID, and more (October 6, 2025)

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Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-weekly-roundup-amazon-bedrock-aws-outposts-amazon-ecs-managed-instances-aws-builder-id-and-more-october-6-2025/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock, AWS Outposts, Amazon ECS Managed Instances, AWS Builder ID, and more (October 6, 2025) Feedly Summary: Last week, Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5—the world’s best coding model according to SWE-Bench – became available in Amazon Q command line interface (CLI) and Kiro. I’m…

The Register: OpenAI and AMD link arms for AI buildout: It’s a power-for-equity swap

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