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1. New AI models · Cloud & data centers

   DeepSeek V4.1 Flash added to Vercel AI Gateway

   DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 Ultrafast is now available through Vercel's AI Gateway. Developers can access this faster model for their applications.

   Full story at Vercel ↗
2. Cloud & data centers

   AWS expands capacity reservation groups in GovCloud

   AWS GovCloud (US) Regions now support EC2 Capacity Blocks and interruptible Capacity Reservations in Resource Groups, previously limited to On-Demand Capacity Reservations. This makes it easier for customers to manage their full portfolio of reserved capacity.

   Full story at aws.amazon.com ↗
3. Cloud & data centers

   Amazon SES expands to six new AWS Regions

   Amazon Simple Email Service is now available in new Asia Pacific, Mexico and EU regions. This lets customers send and manage emails closer to their data requirements.

   Full story at aws.amazon.com ↗
4. Artificial intelligence · IT law & regulation · Cloud & data centers

   New Democratic majority readies a wave of AI bills

   After the midterm elections, the new Democratic majorities are reportedly preparing a barrage of AI legislation, according to Reuters. It targets labs building frontier models and the data centers that power them.

   Full story at Futurism ↗
5. Artificial intelligence · Cloud & data centers · IT industry & companies

   OpenAI says it will keep building data centers

   OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told CNBC on Friday the company will keep investing in data center construction to serve corporate customers. This comes after midterm elections in which, the report says, voters showed opposition to data centers.

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

   GitHub details its new Git storage design

   GitHub announced at Universe a new Git storage architecture handling thousands of writes per second. Internal tests showed 5,000 concurrent agents and 7,200 pushes per second to one repo with consistently low read latency.

   Full story at github.blog ↗
7. New AI models · Cloud & data centers · Artificial intelligence

   Kimi K3.1 Pro arrives on Amazon Bedrock

   Moonshot AI's Kimi K3.1 Pro (Highspeed) is available on Amazon Bedrock for uses such as coding and document processing. Moonshot AI describes it as an open-weight, multimodal model with a 1-million-token context window.

   Full story at aws.amazon.com ↗
8. Cloud & data centers

   AWS now spreads Capacity Block upfront fees over time

   CUR 2.0 data exports and AWS Cost Explorer now amortize the upfront fee for EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML across each reservation. This lets users attribute costs to the workloads that used them and spot unused capacity.

   Full story at aws.amazon.com ↗
9. IT industry & companies · Cloud & data centers · Data & databases

   Dropbox plans to buy Tigris Data

   Dropbox plans to acquire Tigris Data. It also unveiled DBX Agent Cloud.

   Full story at datanami.com ↗
10. DevOps & containers · Cloud & data centers

    Vercel Tracing reaches general availability

    Vercel Tracing is now generally available. The source gives no further details.

    Full story at Vercel ↗

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