Stories tagged cloud & infrastructure.
Semafor (filter tech)
At Semafor’s The Next 3 Billion, Nvidia’s head of sustainability pushed back against the groundswell of anti-AI sentiment that’s unfurled in the US over the last few weeks.
AWS — What's New / News Blog
Today, AWS announces the general availability of GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna from OpenAI on Amazon Bedrock. Expanding the GPT-6 family alongside Astra, these two models give teams more ways to balance intelligence, speed, and cost across every workload. Sol is the daily model for recurring complex…
Kubernetes / CNCF / Linux Foundation / Apache / OpenSSF / OSI / Eclipse
As Kubernetes adoption has grown, the conversation has shifted beyond running containers to managing increasingly complex application lifecycles. Modern platforms support stateless web services, stateful databases, batch processing, AI workloads, and platform services. At the same time, they must…
FedScoop / StateScoop / Nextgov
The House passed a bill to mandate that state regulators have a strategy to have large consumers pay for their own power. But plenty of work lies ahead.
Planet PostgreSQL
ClickHouse released WalShadow last week, and it does something very… brave: it replicates PostgreSQL into ClickHouse without using logical decoding at all. It reads the physical WAL stream, the same bytes a streaming replica gets, decodes heap records itself, and writes ClickHouse-native blocks. …
Planet PostgreSQL
A long time ago I ran a write-heavy system on a hub and a handful of workers. Each worker took a share of the application traffic and wrote events locally. The hub owned the reference data (customers, plans, prices), pushed it down to the workers, and pulled every worker’s events back up to compute…
ServeTheHome / The Next Platform / KitGuru / HotHardware
NVIDIA this week has launched DSX Ready, a new qualification program for data center cooling and power hardware, for use with constructing AI data centers based on NVIDIA's DSX AI factory blueprint The post NVIDIA Announces DSX Ready Qualification Program for Data Center Power and Cooling Hardware…
TechCrunch Startups
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, five sessions across the AI Stage and Real World AI Stage cover AI safety, featuring leaders from Anthropic, Nvidia, AWS, Waabi, and more. Register before September 25 to save up to $200.
AWS — What's New / News Blog
AWS now offers Claude Opus 5.5, Anthropic’s most capable Opus model yet and, the first of the Claude 5.5 model family, a better collaborator that handles long-running coding and knowledge work, reporting back clearly on what it did, what it found, and what it needs next. According to Anthropic…
AWS — What's New / News Blog
AWS GovCloud (US) now offers Claude Opus 5.5, Anthropic’s most capable Opus model yet and, the first of the Claude 5.5 model family, a better collaborator that handles long-running coding and knowledge work, reporting back clearly on what it did, what it found, and what it needs next. According to…
Utility Dive / pv magazine / Energy-Storage.news
Bills signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom include regulations aimed at ensuring data centers pay for infrastructure needed to serve them and bear a larger share of wildfire mitigation and liability costs.
China: SCMP Tech / TechNode / Pandaily / KrASIA / Sixth Tone
Chinese chipmaker Hygon Information Technology on Tuesday launched a suite of central processing units (CPUs) for robotics and industrial edge devices, expanding beyond cloud computing and into the fast-growing market for physical artificial intelligence. The firm unveiled its Hygon 1000 series…
Utility Dive / pv magazine / Energy-Storage.news
The order called out Duke’s commitment to the White House Ratepayer Protection Pledge, saying the utility had not established the specific extent to which the proposed facility is intended to serve data centers.
InfoQ
Google has open-sourced AX, an orchestrator designed for managing autonomous AI agent workloads. AX operates on a runtime, Agent Substrate, treating agents as stateful actors. It provides resource-efficient task suspension and resumption to optimise performance and reduce latency in idle phases. It…
Raspberry Pi / Arduino / Adafruit
Instructables user Makestreme created ESP32-S3 drum sticks: Space Drums 2.0 completely upgrades the hardware with self contained motion tracking, haptic feedback, and wireless foot pedals, all in nice looking 3D printed housings. But the real deal is on screen. I built a full arcade learning engine…
InfoQ
GitLab has expanded GitLab Duo Self-Hosted to support models deployed through Microsoft Foundry, letting organizations run GitLab's AI development capabilities against models hosted in their chosen Azure environment. By Craig Risi
Light Reading / Fierce Network / Telecoms.com / RCR Wireless / Mobile World Live
Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Eutelsat completes rail connectivity trial in Poland; increasing digital participation in Africa; EU proposes rating scheme for data centers.
The Hindu — Technology / BusinessLine — Info-tech
The new Zhenwu V900 accelerator triples the performance of its predecessor; can be combined in clusters of up to 500,000 units to power frontier-model training, the CEO says
Planet PostgreSQL
If I could give one piece of advice to the past me, starting to contribute to open source projects, it’d be to value other developers' time more. It took me a while to appreciate the “economy” behind this, and adjust how I work to increase my chance of getting patches done. Hopefully some new…
Tom's Hardware
OpenAI and Anthropic are seeking to secure immediate capacity, through smaller data center deals, to meet current demand, despite spending billions on massive deals elsewhere.
InfoQ
David Gudeman discusses battle-tested architectural patterns for resource-constrained engineering teams. Drawing from over a decade of startup experience, he explains how pairing GCP, Firebase, and Cloud Run accelerates product-market fit. Learn how to eliminate redundant frontend state, structure…
China: SCMP Tech / TechNode / Pandaily / KrASIA / Sixth Tone
The Zhenwu V900 extends Alibaba’s push into proprietary silicon as rising AI demand drives further expansion of its cloud infrastructure.
Light Reading / Fierce Network / Telecoms.com / RCR Wireless / Mobile World Live
Nvidia committed a fresh $1.5 billion to SoftBank Group-backed data centre developer SB Energy as the latter prepares for an IPO in the US. The post Nvidia makes fresh $1.5B investment in SB Energy appeared first on Mobile World Live.
Europe/UK: Tech.eu / Sifted / TNW / Silicon Republic / UKTN / Computer Weekly / heise / Golem / t3n / Maddyness / FrenchWeb
The bloc is seeking to mitigate the impact of the energy consumption necessary to its goal of tripling data centre capacity over the next five to seven years. Read more: EU proposes common energy rating scheme for data centres
AWS — What's New / News Blog
Amazon EMR 7.14 is now available with new features across Amazon EMR on EC2, Amazon EMR on EKS, and Amazon EMR Serverless, along with version upgrades for additional applications. This release also upgrades Apache Spark to 3.5.8 and Apache Iceberg to 1.10.1. Apache Iceberg materialized views now…
AWS — What's New / News Blog
Amazon Route 53 Resolver is now generally available on second-generation AWS Outposts, providing local, managed recursive DNS resolution directly on your Outpost. DNS queries from workloads running on your Outpost are resolved locally, reducing latency and eliminating the need to traverse the…
AWS — What's New / News Blog
AWS Glue Data Quality now generates data quality rules in seconds, reducing the time to establish data quality checks for your tables in the AWS Glue Data Catalog. You get a ready-to-use set of rules with full coverage across every column, with no manual setup—so you can move from raw data to…
AWS — What's New / News Blog
AWS Security Hub AI Inventory now supports discovering and cataloging AI assets running on self-hosted instances in Microsoft Azure. This expansion extends Security Hub's existing self-hosted discovery capabilities beyond AWS, enabling central security teams to gain a continuously updated…
AWS — What's New / News Blog
Amazon EMR introduces Long Term Support (LTS) releases, starting with emr-spark-8.1.0 and Apache Spark 4.1. With LTS, designated versions of the AWS runtime for Apache Spark receive 36 months of support. Amazon EMR provides LTS releases with fixes for critical and high severity security, bug, and…
Mint — Technology / AI
Chinese technology giant Alibaba Group on Tuesday launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) chip, which it described as “the most powerful AI chip in China,” while announcing plans to significantly expand its data centre capacity in the coming years