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Cloud Blog: AlloyDB on Axion-powered C4A instances is generally available

Sep 12, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/c4a-axion-processors-for-alloydb-now-ga/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: AlloyDB on Axion-powered C4A instances is generally available Feedly Summary: At Google Cloud Next ’25, we announced the preview of AlloyDB on C4A virtual machines, powered by Google Axion processors, our custom Arm-based CPUs. Today, we’re glad to announce that C4A virtual machines are generally available! For transactional…

The Register: Spectre haunts CPUs again: VMSCAPE vulnerability leaks cloud secrets

Sep 11, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/11/vmscape_spectre_vulnerability/ Source: The Register Title: Spectre haunts CPUs again: VMSCAPE vulnerability leaks cloud secrets Feedly Summary: AMD Zen hardware and Intel Coffee Lake affected If you thought the world was done with side-channel CPU attacks, think again. ETH Zurich has identified yet another Spectre-based transient execution vulnerability that affects AMD Zen CPUs and…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference

Sep 11, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/11/defeating-nondeterminism/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference Feedly Summary: Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference A very common question I see about LLMs concerns why they can’t be made to deliver the same response to the same prompt by setting a fixed random number seed. Like many others I had…

Cloud Blog: Run Gemini anywhere, including on-premises, with Google Distributed Cloud

Aug 28, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/hybrid-cloud/gemini-is-now-available-anywhere/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Run Gemini anywhere, including on-premises, with Google Distributed Cloud Feedly Summary: Earlier this year, we announced our commitment to bring Gemini to on-premises environments with Google Distributed Cloud (GDC). Today, we are excited to announce that Gemini on GDC is now available to customers. For years, enterprises and…

Cloud Blog: How much energy does Google’s AI use? We did the math

Aug 21, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/measuring-the-environmental-impact-of-ai-inference/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How much energy does Google’s AI use? We did the math Feedly Summary: AI is unlocking scientific breakthroughs, improving healthcare and education, and could add trillions to the global economy. Understanding AI’s footprint is crucial, yet thorough data on the energy and environmental impact of AI inference —…

AWS News Blog: Best performance and fastest memory with the new Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances

Aug 19, 2025

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Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/best-performance-and-fastest-memory-with-the-new-amazon-ec2-r8i-and-r8i-flex-instances/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Best performance and fastest memory with the new Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances Feedly Summary: R8i and R8i-flex instances powered by Intel Xeon processors offer up to 15% better price performance, 20% higher performance, and 2.5 times more memory throughput compared to previous generations. AI Summary…

Cloud Blog: Scalable AI starts with storage: Guide to model artifact strategies

Aug 14, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/scalable-ai-starts-with-storage-guide-to-model-artifact-strategies/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Scalable AI starts with storage: Guide to model artifact strategies Feedly Summary: Managing large model artifacts is a common bottleneck in MLOps. Baking models into container images leads to slow, monolithic deployments, and downloading them at startup introduces significant delays. This guide explores a better way: decoupling your…

Cloud Blog: How Yahoo Calendar broke free from hardware queues and DBA bottlenecks

Aug 11, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure-modernization/how-yahoo-calendar-broke-free-from-hardware-queues-and-dba-bottlenecks/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How Yahoo Calendar broke free from hardware queues and DBA bottlenecks Feedly Summary: Editor’s note: Yahoo Mail is in the midst of one of its largest infrastructure transformations to date: a multi-year effort to modernize hundreds of petabytes of services by moving to Google Cloud.The Yahoo Mail migration…

Cloud Blog: Google is a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services

Aug 8, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/google-is-a-leader-in-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-scps/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Google is a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services Feedly Summary: For the eighth consecutive year, Gartner® has named Google a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Strategic Cloud Platform Services, and this year Google is also now ranked the highest for…

Cloud Blog: Now GA: C4 VMs with Local SSD, bare metal, and larger shapes, on Intel Xeon 6

Jul 31, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/c4-vms-based-on-intel-6th-gen-xeon-granite-rapids-now-ga/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Now GA: C4 VMs with Local SSD, bare metal, and larger shapes, on Intel Xeon 6 Feedly Summary: We’re thrilled to announce a significant expansion of our C4 virtual machine series, with the general availability of 28 powerful new shapes. This expansion introduces C4 shapes with Google’s next-gen…

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