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  • Cloud Blog: BigQuery under the hood: The power of the Column Metadata index aka CMETA

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/understanding-the-bigquery–column-metadata-cmeta-index/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: BigQuery under the hood: The power of the Column Metadata index aka CMETA Feedly Summary: While petabyte-scale data warehouses are becoming more common, getting the performance you need without escalating costs and effort remain key challenges, even in a modern cloud data warehouse. While many data warehouse platform…

  • Slashdot: Microsoft’s Analog Optical Computer Shows AI Promise

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    Source URL: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/09/08/0125250/microsofts-analog-optical-computer-shows-ai-promise?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft’s Analog Optical Computer Shows AI Promise Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a project by Microsoft Research involving an analog optical computer (AOC) designed for AI workloads, significantly enhancing computation speed and energy efficiency compared to traditional GPUs. The initiative offers opportunities for…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Introducing EmbeddingGemma

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/4/embedding-gemma/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Introducing EmbeddingGemma Feedly Summary: Introducing EmbeddingGemma Brand new open weights (under the slightly janky Gemma license) 308M parameter embedding model from Google: Based on the Gemma 3 architecture, EmbeddingGemma is trained on 100+ languages and is small enough to run on less than 200MB of RAM with…

  • The Register: No chips for you! Senator wants Americans to get first dibs on GPUs, restrict sales to others

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/us_senator_americans_first_ai_sillicon/ Source: The Register Title: No chips for you! Senator wants Americans to get first dibs on GPUs, restrict sales to others Feedly Summary: We’ve got hungry American datacenters to feed, argued the lawmaker – a revival Nvidia dubs ‘doomer science fiction’ +Comment US lawmakers are looking to apply Trump’s America-First agenda to…

  • Cloud Blog: How Baseten achieves 225% better cost-performance for AI inference (and you can too)

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/how-baseten-achieves-better-cost-performance-for-ai-inference/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How Baseten achieves 225% better cost-performance for AI inference (and you can too) Feedly Summary: Baseten is one of a growing number of AI infrastructure providers, helping other startups run their models and experiments at speed and scale. Given the importance of those two factors to its customers,…

  • Cloud Blog: How to Build Highly Available Multi-regional Services with Cloud Run

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/how-to-build-highly-available-multi-regional-services-with-cloud-run/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How to Build Highly Available Multi-regional Services with Cloud Run Feedly Summary: Ever worry about your applications going down just when you need them most? The talk at Cloud Next 2025, Run high-availability multi-region services with Cloud Run, dives deep into building fault tolerant and reliable applications using…

  • Docker: Hybrid AI Isn’t the Future — It’s Here (and It Runs in Docker)

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    Source URL: https://www.docker.com/blog/hybrid-ai-and-how-it-runs-in-docker/ Source: Docker Title: Hybrid AI Isn’t the Future — It’s Here (and It Runs in Docker) Feedly Summary: Running large AI models in the cloud gives access to immense capabilities, but it doesn’t come for free. The bigger the models, the bigger the bills, and with them, the risk of unexpected costs.…