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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: gpt-image-1-mini

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/6/gpt-image-1-mini/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: gpt-image-1-mini Feedly Summary: gpt-image-1-mini OpenAI released a new image model today: gpt-image-1-mini, which they describe as “A smaller image generation model that’s 80% less expensive than the large model." They released it very quietly – I didn’t hear about this in the DevDay keynote but I later…

  • 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…

  • Slashdot: Microsoft’s CTO Hopes to Swap Most AMD and NVIDIA GPUs for In-House Chips

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    Source URL: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/10/04/2142243/microsofts-cto-hopes-to-swap-most-amd-and-nvidia-gpus-for-in-house-chips?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft’s CTO Hopes to Swap Most AMD and NVIDIA GPUs for In-House Chips Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft is transitioning its AI workloads from traditional GPUs to its proprietary accelerators to enhance cost efficiency in its datacenters. This move exemplifies a trend towards customized hardware…

  • AWS News Blog: Announcing Amazon ECS Managed Instances for containerized applications

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-amazon-ecs-managed-instances-for-containerized-applications/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Announcing Amazon ECS Managed Instances for containerized applications Feedly Summary: Amazon ECS Managed Instances is a new compute option that eliminates infrastructure management overhead while giving you access to the broad suite of EC2 capabilities including the flexibility to select instance types, access reserved capacity, and advanced…

  • Cloud Blog: Unlock next-gen VMs using GKE compute classes and Compute Flexible CUDs

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/adopt-new-vm-series-with-gke-compute-classes-flexible-cuds/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Unlock next-gen VMs using GKE compute classes and Compute Flexible CUDs Feedly Summary: Organizations are consistently looking to gain an edge with the latest advancements in cloud computing. New Google Compute Engine and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Gen4 machine series including N4, C4, C4A, C4D, to name a…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/25/improved-gemini-25-flash-and-flash-lite/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite Feedly Summary: Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite Two new preview models from Google – updates to their fast and inexpensive Flash and Flash Lite families: The latest version of Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite was trained and built based on three key…

  • Cloud Blog: GPUs when you need them: Introducing Flex-start VMs

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/introducing-flex-start-vms-for-the-compute-engine-instance-api/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: GPUs when you need them: Introducing Flex-start VMs Feedly Summary: Innovating with AI requires accelerators such as GPUs that can be hard to come by in times of extreme demand. To address this challenge, we offer Dynamic Workload Scheduler (DWS), a service that optimizes access to compute resources…

  • Cloud Blog: Accelerating cloud migrations to Google Cloud with Searce to drive profitable growth

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/recent-migrations-to-google-cloud-by-searce/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Accelerating cloud migrations to Google Cloud with Searce to drive profitable growth Feedly Summary: As companies transition past legacy infrastructure and set themselves up for growth in AI, multi-cloud, and platform engineering requirements, many are looking to Google Cloud for its reliability, performance, and cost benefits.To achieve successful…

  • The Cloudflare Blog: Announcing the Cloudflare Data Platform: ingest, store, and query your data directly on Cloudflare

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    Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-data-platform/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Announcing the Cloudflare Data Platform: ingest, store, and query your data directly on Cloudflare Feedly Summary: The Cloudflare Data Platform, launching today, is a fully-managed suite of products for ingesting, transforming, storing, and querying analytical data, built on Apache Iceberg and R2 storage. AI Summary and Description:…

  • Cloud Blog: Meet the new GKE: Extending Autopilot to all qualifying clusters

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/gke-autopilot-now-available-to-all-qualifying-clusters/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Meet the new GKE: Extending Autopilot to all qualifying clusters Feedly Summary: Autopilot is an operational mode for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) that provides a fully managed environment and takes care of operational details, like provisioning compute capacity for your workloads. Autopilot allows you to spend more time…