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Google Cloud Credits can be claimed in AI Studio
Google says Google Cloud Credits can be claimed in Google AI Studio. The text gives no further details.
Full story at blog.google ↗ - Artificial intelligence · IT law & regulation
US public-sector unions win AI protections for workers
US public-sector unions are increasingly securing protections against AI surveillance and automated firings. Meanwhile, nearly 70 percent of US government agencies already use generative AI.
Full story at The Decoder ↗ - Data & databases · IT industry & companies
ClickHouse widens its platform with Postgres and Xata
ClickHouse is expanding its platform with a Postgres push and a deal with Xata. The story gives no further details.
Full story at datanami.com ↗ - IT industry & companies · Data & databases
Databento closes a Series C funding round
Databento raised $100M in a Series C round. The valuation is $1.1B.
Full story at datanami.com ↗ - Chips & hardware · Programming & dev tools
NVIDIA cuBLAS gets new FP64 algorithms for simulations
NVIDIA presents new FP64 algorithms in cuBLAS to speed up scientific simulations. Many of them spend most of their runtime on high-precision matrix multiplications such as DGEMM and ZGEMM.
Full story at NVIDIA Developer ↗ - Artificial intelligence · Open source · Chips & hardware · Programming & dev tools
Solana launches a toolkit for private AI apps
The Solana Foundation, with Nito, launched the open-source Solana Confidential Compute toolkit, in beta on devnet since November 13. AI requests run off-chain, keeping sensitive data outside the blockchain.
Full story at Analytics Insight ↗ - Cloud & data centers · Enterprise software
Broadcom and NTT Docomo advance private cloud with VCF
Broadcom and NTT Docomo are advancing a private cloud using VCF. The story offers no further details.
Full story at news.broadcom.com ↗ - Cloud & data centers · Cybersecurity · Programming & dev tools
Amazon Cognito adds OAuth 2.0 token exchange
Amazon Cognito now supports token exchange under RFC 8693. A service or AI agent acting for a user can swap the user's token for a new one scoped to a specific downstream service.
Full story at aws.amazon.com ↗ - Artificial intelligence · New AI models · Cloud & data centers · Programming & dev tools
Kiro in AWS GovCloud (US) gets Grok 4.7
Grok 4.7 is now available in the Kiro IDE and CLI in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. It comes with experimental support and a 500K context window.
Full story at aws.amazon.com ↗ - Cloud & data centers · Data & databases
Amazon RDS for Oracle cuts maintenance downtime
Amazon RDS for Oracle now has less downtime for automatic minor version upgrades and for upgrades and OS updates in the maintenance window. This makes staying current easier with less disruption to applications.
Full story at aws.amazon.com ↗
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