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  • AWS News Blog: New general-purpose Amazon EC2 M8a instances are now available

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-general-purpose-amazon-ec2-m8a-instances-are-now-available/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: New general-purpose Amazon EC2 M8a instances are now available Feedly Summary: Amazon EC2 has launched new M8a instances powered by 5th Generation AMD EPYC processors, offering up to 30% better performance and 19% better price performance compared to M7a instances, along with improved memory bandwidth, networking, and…

  • AWS News Blog: Introducing new compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instances

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-new-compute-optimized-amazon-ec2-c8i-and-c8i-flex-instances/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Introducing new compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instances Feedly Summary: AWS launched compute-optimized C8i and C8i-flex EC2 instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS to offer up to 15% better price performance, 20% higher performance, and 2.5 times more memory throughput…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Two more Chinese pelicans

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/1/two-pelicans/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Two more Chinese pelicans Feedly Summary: Two new models from Chinese AI labs in the past few days. I tried them both out using llm-openrouter: DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp from DeepSeek. Announcement, Tech Report, Hugging Face (690GB, MIT license). As an intermediate step toward our next-generation architecture, V3.2-Exp builds upon…

  • 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…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Magistral 1.2

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/19/magistral/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Magistral 1.2 Feedly Summary: Mistral quietly released two new models yesterday: Magistral Small 1.2 (Apache 2.0, 96.1 GB on Hugging Face) and Magistral Medium 1.2 (not open weights same as Mistral’s other “medium" models.) Despite being described as "minor updates" to the Magistral 1.1 models these have…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/kimi-k2-instruct-0905/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905 Feedly Summary: Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905 New not-quite-MIT licensed model from Chinese Moonshot AI, a follow-up to the highly regarded Kimi-K2 model they released in July. This one is an incremental improvement – I’ve seen it referred to online as “Kimi K-2.1". It scores a little higher on a…

  • The Cloudflare Blog: How we built the most efficient inference engine for Cloudflare’s network

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    Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-most-efficient-ai-inference-engine/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: How we built the most efficient inference engine for Cloudflare’s network Feedly Summary: Infire is an LLM inference engine that employs a range of techniques to maximize resource utilization, allowing us to serve AI models more efficiently with better performance for Cloudflare workloads. AI Summary and Description:…

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

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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…

  • Slashdot: Remember the Companies Making Vital Open Source Contributions

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/08/16/1749228/remember-the-companies-making-vital-open-source-contributions?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Remember the Companies Making Vital Open Source Contributions Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights the critical role of large tech companies in contributing to open-source projects, emphasizing that their involvement often stems from self-interest rather than altruism. It underscores how significant contributions from companies…

  • Cloud Blog: Start and scale your apps faster with improved container image streaming in GKE

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/improving-gke-container-image-streaming-for-faster-app-startup/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Start and scale your apps faster with improved container image streaming in GKE Feedly Summary: In today’s fast-paced cloud-native world, the speed at which your applications can start and scale is paramount. Faster pod startup times mean quicker responses to user demand, more efficient resource utilization, and a…