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  • The Register: Even Google struggles to balance fast-but-pricey flash and cheap-but-slow hard disks

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/27/google_l4_storage_performance_improvements/ Source: The Register Title: Even Google struggles to balance fast-but-pricey flash and cheap-but-slow hard disks Feedly Summary: Reveals it ‘dramatically improved IOPS and throughput’ of its own storage with homebrew ‘L4’ automation and cache Google has revealed that it still relies on hard disk drives for most of its storage needs, but…

  • Cloud Blog: Colossus under the hood: How we deliver SSD performance at HDD prices

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer/how-colossus-optimizes-data-placement-for-performance/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Colossus under the hood: How we deliver SSD performance at HDD prices Feedly Summary: From YouTube and Gmail to BigQuery and Cloud Storage, almost all of Google’s products depend on Colossus, our foundational distributed storage system. As Google’s universal storage platform, Colossus achieves throughput that rivals or exceeds…

  • Cloud Blog: Build gen AI agents using Google Cloud databases

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/learn-how-to-connect-agents-to-google-cloud-databases/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Build gen AI agents using Google Cloud databases Feedly Summary: As enterprises build generative AI agents to strengthen their security posture or improve their customer experience, they need access to real-time data. Because most business critical and real-time data is stored and processed in databases, you need ways…

  • Cloud Blog: Nuro drives autonomous innovation with AlloyDB for PostgreSQL

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/nuro-drives-autonomous-innovation-with-alloydb-for-postgresql/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Nuro drives autonomous innovation with AlloyDB for PostgreSQL Feedly Summary: Editor’s note: Nuro, a robotics company that develops technology for self-driving vehicles, needed a data platform that could handle complex data processes and support continuous AI model improvement. By migrating to AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Nuro gained the scalability,…

  • Hacker News: The Humans Building AI Scientists

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    Source URL: https://www.asimov.press/p/futurehouse Source: Hacker News Title: The Humans Building AI Scientists Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses FutureHouse, a nonprofit focused on utilizing AI to automate scientific discovery. Their innovative tools streamline research processes, allowing AI to generate hypotheses, analyze literature, and perform tasks that enhance the efficiency…

  • Cloud Blog: The three pillars of data-driven government

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/public-sector/the-three-pillars-of-data-driven-government/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: The three pillars of data-driven government Feedly Summary: Over just the past few years, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) have remarkably transformed IT and data science at the enterprise level. Yet, the public sector is still working through some significant “growing pains” adapting Data & AI strategies…

  • Slashdot: AI Crawlers Haven’t Learned To Play Nice With Websites

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/03/19/1027251/ai-crawlers-havent-learned-to-play-nice-with-websites?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: AI Crawlers Haven’t Learned To Play Nice With Websites Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: SourceHut is experiencing service disruptions due to aggressive web crawling by AI companies collecting data for training large language models (LLMs). They have implemented mitigations, including blocking certain cloud providers due to…

  • Wired: Nvidia Bets Big on Synthetic Data

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/nvidia-gretel-acquisition-synthetic-training-data/ Source: Wired Title: Nvidia Bets Big on Synthetic Data Feedly Summary: Nvidia has acquired synthetic data startup Gretel to bolster the AI training data used by the chip maker’s customers and developers. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Nvidia’s acquisition of Gretel, a synthetic data firm, aims to enhance its generative AI…

  • Cloud Blog: Gen AI Toolbox for Databases announces LlamaIndex integration

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/llamaindex-is-on-gen-ai-toolbox-for-databases/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Gen AI Toolbox for Databases announces LlamaIndex integration Feedly Summary: We are excited to announce LlamaIndex integration for Gen AI Toolbox for Databases (Toolbox). We launched Toolbox in beta last month and are thrilled to continue building on that momentum. Gen AI Toolbox for Databases is an open-source…