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The Register: Alibaba Cloud plans expansion into Europe and South America

Sep 25, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/25/alibaba_cloud_expansion/ Source: The Register Title: Alibaba Cloud plans expansion into Europe and South America Feedly Summary: More datacenters in familiar territories, too, and AI everywhere Alibaba Cloud yesterday announced its first datacenters in Brazil, France, and The Netherlands, plus expansion of its presence in five other countries outside China.… AI Summary and Description:…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen3-VL: Sharper Vision, Deeper Thought, Broader Action

Sep 24, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/23/qwen3-vl/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen3-VL: Sharper Vision, Deeper Thought, Broader Action Feedly Summary: Qwen3-VL: Sharper Vision, Deeper Thought, Broader Action I’ve been looking forward to this. Qwen 2.5 VL is one of the best available open weight vision LLMs, so I had high hopes for Qwen 3’s vision models. Firstly, we…

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…

Slashdot: SAP To Invest Over 20 Billion Euros In ‘Sovereign Cloud’

Sep 2, 2025

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Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/09/02/1959258/sap-to-invest-over-20-billion-euros-in-sovereign-cloud?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: SAP To Invest Over 20 Billion Euros In ‘Sovereign Cloud’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: SAP’s significant investment in European sovereign cloud infrastructure emphasizes the intersection of innovation and data sovereignty. The initiative aims to expand cloud offerings, ensuring compliance with regional data protection regulations like…

The Register: IBM Cloud hit by Severity One outage with some of the same symptoms from other recent SNAFUs

Aug 12, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/12/ibm_cloud_severity_one_outage/ Source: The Register Title: IBM Cloud hit by Severity One outage with some of the same symptoms from other recent SNAFUs Feedly Summary: Outages, degraded service, and login troubles hit 10 regions and 27 services IBM Cloud experienced a Severity One outage on Monday that left customers unable to access resources.… AI…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Sam Altman

Aug 8, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/8/sam-altman/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Sam Altman Feedly Summary: GPT-5 rollout updates: We are going to double GPT-5 rate limits for ChatGPT Plus users as we finish rollout. We will let Plus users choose to continue to use 4o. We will watch usage as we think about how long to offer…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: How to run an LLM on your laptop

Jul 18, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/18/how-to-run-an-llm-on-your-laptop/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: How to run an LLM on your laptop Feedly Summary: How to run an LLM on your laptop I talked to Grace Huckins for this piece from MIT Technology Review on running local models. Apparently she enjoyed my dystopian backup plan! Simon Willison has a plan for…

Cloud Blog: Accelerate your AI workloads with the Google Cloud Managed Lustre

Jul 8, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer/google-cloud-managed-lustre-for-ai-hpc/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Accelerate your AI workloads with the Google Cloud Managed Lustre Feedly Summary: Today, we’re making it even easier to achieve breakthrough performance for your AI/ML workloads: Google Cloud Managed Lustre is now GA, and available in four distinct performance tiers that deliver throughput ranging from 125 MB/s, 250…

The Register: Amazon built a massive AI supercluster for Anthropic called Project Rainier – here’s what we know so far

Jul 4, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/04/project_rainier_deep_dive/ Source: The Register Title: Amazon built a massive AI supercluster for Anthropic called Project Rainier – here’s what we know so far Feedly Summary: It’s almost like AWS is building its own Stargate deep dive Amazon Web Services (AWS) is in the process of building out a massive supercomputing cluster containing “hundreds…

AWS News Blog: New Amazon EC2 C8gn instances powered by AWS Graviton4 offering up to 600Gbps network bandwidth

Jun 30, 2025

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Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-ec2-c8gn-instances-powered-by-aws-graviton4-offering-up-to-600gbps-network-bandwidth/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: New Amazon EC2 C8gn instances powered by AWS Graviton4 offering up to 600Gbps network bandwidth Feedly Summary: Amazon EC2 announces general availability of C8gn network optimized instances powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, offering up to 600Gbps network bandwidth for demanding network-intensive workloads with 30% higher compute performance…

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