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  • Cloud Blog: H4D VMs: Next-generation HPC-optimized VMs

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/new-h4d-vms-optimized-for-hpc/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: H4D VMs: Next-generation HPC-optimized VMs Feedly Summary: At Google Cloud Next, we introduced H4D VMs, our latest machine type for high performance computing (HPC). Building upon existing HPC offerings, H4D VMs are designed to address the evolving needs of demanding workloads in industries such as manufacturing, weather forecasting,…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-fragments-go

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/10/llm-fragments-go/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-fragments-go Feedly Summary: llm-fragments-go Filippo Valsorda released the first plugin by someone other than me that uses LLM’s new register_fragment_loaders() plugin hook I announced the other day. Install with llm install llm-fragments-go and then: You can feed the docs of a Go package into LLM using the…

  • Cloud Blog: New Google Workspace cost-saving offer available for U.S. federal government

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/public-sector/new-google-workspace-cost-saving-offer-available-for-us-federal-government/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: New Google Workspace cost-saving offer available for U.S. federal government Feedly Summary: Government agencies rely on IT providers to provide secure, compliant, and efficient technology to help complete their vital missions. At the same time, cost-savings and productivity are taking center stage. These priorities – lower cost with…

  • The Cloudflare Blog: Making Super Slurper 5x faster with Workers, Durable Objects, and Queues

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    Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/making-super-slurper-five-times-faster/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Making Super Slurper 5x faster with Workers, Durable Objects, and Queues Feedly Summary: We re-architected Super Slurper from the ground up using our Developer Platform — leveraging Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects, and Queues — and improved transfer speeds by up to 5x. AI Summary and Description: Yes…

  • The Cloudflare Blog: Sequential consistency without borders: how D1 implements global read replication

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    Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/d1-read-replication-beta/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Sequential consistency without borders: how D1 implements global read replication Feedly Summary: D1, Cloudflare’s managed SQL database, announces read replication beta. Here’s a deep dive of the read replication implementation and how your queries can remain consistent across all regions. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The…

  • The Register: Google offers 7th-gen Ironwood TPUs for AI, with AI-inspired comparisons

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/10/googles_7thgen_ironwood_tpus_debut/ Source: The Register Title: Google offers 7th-gen Ironwood TPUs for AI, with AI-inspired comparisons Feedly Summary: Sure, we’re doing FP8 versus a supercomputer’s FP64. What of it? Cloud Next Google’s seventh-generation Tensor Processing Units (TPU), announced Wednesday, will soon be available to cloud customers to rent in pods of 256 or 9,216…

  • Cloud Blog: Day 1 at Google Cloud Next 25 recap

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/google-cloud-next/next25-day-1-recap/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Day 1 at Google Cloud Next 25 recap Feedly Summary: Hello from Google Cloud Next 25 in Las Vegas! This year, it’s all about how AI can reimagine work and improve our lives — even bringing Hollywood classics like The Wizard of Oz to life on one of…

  • Cloud Blog: Introducing Ironwood TPUs and new innovations in AI Hypercomputer

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/whats-new-with-ai-hypercomputer/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Introducing Ironwood TPUs and new innovations in AI Hypercomputer Feedly Summary: Today’s innovation isn’t born in a lab or at a drafting board; it’s built on the bedrock of AI infrastructure. AI workloads have new and unique demands — addressing these requires a finely crafted combination of hardware…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: An LLM Query Understanding Service

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/9/an-llm-query-understanding-service/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: An LLM Query Understanding Service Feedly Summary: An LLM Query Understanding Service Doug Turnbull recently wrote about how all search is structured now: Many times, even a small open source LLM will be able to turn a search query into reasonable structure at relatively low cost. In…