The most important news of the day

Every day we read hundreds of stories. Only the most important ones are here — short, in our own words, with a link to the original source.

1. Cloud & data centers

   Dawn of War IV is heading to GeForce NOW

   NVIDIA announces that Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV is coming to GeForce NOW. The text gives no further details.

   Full story at NVIDIA ↗
2. IT industry & companies · Data & databases

   Databricks plans a $3B push in Europe and Middle East

   Databricks plans a $3B investment in Europe and the Middle East. The text gives no further details.

   Full story at datanami.com ↗
3. Artificial intelligence · Open source · Programming & dev tools

   llama.cpp reaches version 1.0.0

   llama.cpp has released v1.0.0, described as a stronger foundation for the local AI ecosystem. The text gives no further details.

   Full story at huggingface.co ↗
4. Artificial intelligence · Data & databases · Enterprise software

   OpenAI and Databricks target AI on governed data

   The story covers enterprise AI on governed data, featuring OpenAI's Greg Brockman. The text offers few further details.

   Full story at databricks.com ↗
5. Cloud & data centers · Data & databases

   CoreWeave launches a database service

   CoreWeave is moving beyond GPUs with a new database service. The text gives no further details.

   Full story at datanami.com ↗
6. Cloud & data centers · DevOps & containers · Programming & dev tools

   GitHub reports on its October 2026 availability

   In October GitHub added substantial Azure capacity and removed some ways failures could escalate. Write outages, monitoring gaps during data migrations and a regional network disruption showed the need for safer operations.

   Full story at github.blog ↗
7. Artificial intelligence · IT industry & companies · Enterprise software

   IDC research says Frontier Firms get more from AI

   IDC research commissioned by Microsoft surveyed more than 5,200 leaders and found Frontier Firms report an average 4x return on AI versus 2.7x for slow adopters. It aims to explain why value at scale remains rare.

   Full story at blogs.microsoft.com ↗
8. Cloud & data centers · Data & databases · Chips & hardware

   Aurora and RDS gain Graviton5-based R9g instances

   Graviton5-based R9g instances are generally available for Amazon Aurora and RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL and MariaDB. They offer up to 30% better performance and up to 22% better price-performance than Graviton4, depending on engine and workload.

   Full story at aws.amazon.com ↗
9. Cloud & data centers · Networking · Cybersecurity

   AWS Network Security Manager expands to more regions

   AWS Network Security Manager is generally available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud Region and thirty-one new Regions. It is meant to simplify security policy deployment at scale and supports AWS WAF and AWS Shield in the Sovereign Cloud.

   Full story at aws.amazon.com ↗
10. New AI models · Artificial intelligence · Programming & dev tools · Cloud & data centers

    Grok 4.7 arrives in Kiro on AWS GovCloud (US)

    Grok 4.7 is available in the Kiro IDE and CLI in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, with experimental support and a 500K context window. It is said to plan and recover from errors more reliably than Grok 4.6 in repo-scale coding.

    Full story at aws.amazon.com ↗

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