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  • 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: Grok 4 Fast

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/20/grok-4-fast/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Grok 4 Fast Feedly Summary: Grok 4 Fast New hosted reasoning model from xAI that’s designed to be fast and extremely competitive on price. It has a 2 million token context window and “was trained end-to-end with tool-use reinforcement learning". It’s priced at $0.20/million input tokens and…

  • AWS News Blog: Announcing Amazon EC2 M4 and M4 Pro Mac instances

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-amazon-ec2-m4-and-m4-pro-mac-instances/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Announcing Amazon EC2 M4 and M4 Pro Mac instances Feedly Summary: AWS has launched new EC2 M4 and M4 Pro Mac instances based on Apple M4 Mac mini, offering improved performance over previous generations and featuring up to 48GB memory and 2TB storage for iOS/macOS development workloads.…

  • Cloud Blog: Zero-shot forecasting in BigQuery with the TimesFM foundation model

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/bigquery-ml-timesfm-models-now-in-preview/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Zero-shot forecasting in BigQuery with the TimesFM foundation model Feedly Summary: Accurate time-series forecasting is essential for many business scenarios such as planning, supply chain management, and resource allocation. BigQuery now embeds TimesFM, a state-of-the-art pre-trained model from Google Research, enabling powerful forecasting via the simple AI.FORECAST function.…

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

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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…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Introducing Gemma 3n: The developer guide

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/26/gemma-3n/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Introducing Gemma 3n: The developer guide Feedly Summary: Introducing Gemma 3n: The developer guide Extremely consequential new open weights model release from Google today: Multimodal by design: Gemma 3n natively supports image, audio, video, and text inputs and text outputs. Optimized for on-device: Engineered with a focus…

  • Cloud Blog: New G4 VMs with NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell power AI, graphics, gaming and beyond

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/introducing-g4-vm-with-nvidia-rtx-pro-6000/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: New G4 VMs with NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell power AI, graphics, gaming and beyond Feedly Summary: Today, we’re excited to announce the preview of our new G4 VMs based on NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server edition — the first cloud provider to do so. This follows…