Tag: workloads

  • Slashdot: Meta Signs $10 Billion Cloud Deal With Google

    Source URL: https://meta.slashdot.org/story/25/08/22/2043255/meta-signs-10-billion-cloud-deal-with-google Source: Slashdot Title: Meta Signs $10 Billion Cloud Deal With Google Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Google has entered into a significant six-year cloud computing partnership with Meta, valued at over $10 billion, to support Meta’s extensive AI infrastructure. This collaboration highlights the growing intersection of cloud computing and…

  • The Register: DeepSeek’s new V3.1 release points to potent new Chinese chips coming soon

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/22/deepseek_v31_chinese_chip_hints/ Source: The Register Title: DeepSeek’s new V3.1 release points to potent new Chinese chips coming soon Feedly Summary: Point release retuned with new FP8 datatype for better compatibility with homegrown silicon Chinese AI darling DeepSeek unveiled an update to its flagship large language model that the company claims is already optimized for…

  • Cloud Blog: Intelligent code conversion: Databricks Spark SQL to BigQuery SQL via Gemini

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/automate-sql-translation-databricks-to-bigquery-with-gemini/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Intelligent code conversion: Databricks Spark SQL to BigQuery SQL via Gemini Feedly Summary: As data platforms evolve and businesses diversify their cloud ecosystems, the need to migrate SQL workloads between engines is becoming increasingly common. Recently, I had the opportunity to work on translating a set of Databricks…

  • The Register: Baidu robocabs break even in low-fare China, company expects to cash in elsewhere

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/baidu_q2_2025/ Source: The Register Title: Baidu robocabs break even in low-fare China, company expects to cash in elsewhere Feedly Summary: Web giant reworks AI infra to improve utilization, with mix of chips from home and away Chinese web giant Baidu is already breaking even with robotaxi operations in China and is confident they…

  • Cloud Blog: IP address management made easy: Announcing auto IPAM for GKE clusters

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/gke-auto-ipam-simplifies-ip-address-management/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: IP address management made easy: Announcing auto IPAM for GKE clusters Feedly Summary: Managing IP addresses in Kubernetes can be a complex and daunting task — but a crucial one. In Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), it’s important that you manage IP addresses effectively, given the resource-constrained IPv4 address…

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

    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…