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Lakebase branching for CI/CD: lessons from 100 PR databases
Databricks Blog
The problem: testing against production data shouldn't take over 30 minutesSnorkel...
Build a Validated Kubernetes Runtime for NVIDIA Dynamo
NVIDIA Developer Blog
Teams building AI applications need a repeatable path from a model configuration to a working inference endpoint. NVIDIA Dynamo is a distributed inference... Teams building AI applications need a repeatable path from a model configuration to a working inference endpoint. NVIDIA D
Databricks and SAP unleash end-to-end data & AI capabilities to level up enterprise AI transformation
Databricks Blog
Today's AI models are more capable than ever. What they still lack is the business...
Amazon Bedrock expands API support and introduces Cross-Region Inferencing for OpenAI models in AWS GovCloud (US)
AWS What’s New
Amazon Bedrock now supports the OpenAI GPT-5.6 models (Terra and Luna) on the bedrock-runtime endpoint, with support for the Responses, Converse, and Chat Completions APIs in AWS GovCloud (US). It also adds support for Cross-Region Inference, allowing customers to use Cross-Regio
Run AI Models for Edge Application Development with Just a Few Commands
NVIDIA Developer Blog
AI is expanding beyond the data center as developers build a new generation of agents to act at the edge: monitoring driver attention and cabin conditions,... AI is expanding beyond the data center as developers build a new generation of agents to act at the edge: monitoring driv
Web Search now available on Kiro in AWS GovCloud (US)
AWS What’s New
Kiro web search gives the agent real-time access to current information on the internet, so its answers draw on up-to-date search results and page content. The agent uses web search automatically when a question involves recent changes or topics beyond the model's training data.
Wealth Management Client Onboarding Needs More Than AI
Databricks Blog
Wealth Management client onboarding can stall even when every system has done its job. The document is collected...
Amazon Connect Customer automatically saves in-progress emails as drafts
AWS What’s New
Amazon Connect Customer automatically saves in-progress emails as drafts, helping agents resume work without losing progress when connectivity is interrupted or when their browser is accidentally closed or refreshed. When agents return, their drafts are restored with the message
Deliberate decisions and enterprise AI value
Databricks Blog
AI progress is moving quickly. Expectations are rising, experimentation is spreading...
Daybreak Red from OpenAI now available to eligible customers on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-East)
AWS What’s New
Security teams need powerful tools to find vulnerabilities, test exploits, and build defenses. Daybreak Red from OpenAI is now available to eligible customers on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-East), bringing advanced AI to this work. Part of OpenAI’s Daybreak cyber defense i
4 real? Tracking exploitation and patching of eMudhra’s weak keys
Cloudflare BlogMaxime Guerreiro
On October 19, 2026, we learned about eMudhra’s eight shockingly weak keys: where eMudhra was trusted to pick a 115-digit number for their virtual combination lock protecting the Internet, they picked the number 4. Not even four digits, just the number 4. The other seven keys wer
Amazon RDS for Oracle no longer requires automatic minor version upgrades for JVM, Spatial, Locator, and OLAP options
AWS What’s New
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now lets you turn off automatic minor version upgrades on new and existing DB instances that use the JVM, Spatial, Locator, or OLAP option. Previously, these options required automatic minor version upgrades to be enabled
Build Specialized Agents on a Stack You Control with NVIDIA NemoClaw
NVIDIA Developer Blog
Building an autonomous agent requires a model, a harness, and domain-specific tools. To deploy an agent more securely, developers need a runtime that enforces... Building an autonomous agent requires a model, a harness, and domain-specific tools. To deploy an agent more securely,
How to Check and Configure NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage for Your Platform
NVIDIA Developer Blog
NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage (GDS) accelerates GPU storage access in on-premises and cloud environments. It provides a robust, portable, and efficient data path... NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage (GDS) accelerates GPU storage access in on-premises and cloud environments. It provides a robus
Cloudflare services for private origins is now generally available
Cloudflare BlogEnrique Somoza
Today, Cloudflare services for private origins is generally available. Point a proxied DNS record at a private IP, and Cloudflare reaches the origin over your existing Cloudflare One connection . Your origin stays private, while web application firewall ( WAF ), caching , bot man
Making it easier for websites to express AI training preferences
OpenAI News
OpenAI will honor a shared robots.txt signal to help website operators communicate their AI training preferences to participating providers.
Community safety report and new protections for teens
OpenAI News
OpenAI is strengthening violence prevention in ChatGPT with expanded safeguards, earlier interventions, and a new commitment to public safety reporting.
AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports Apache Iceberg table optimization in the US West (N. California) Region
AWS What’s New
AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports automatic table optimization for Apache Iceberg tables in the US West (N. California) Region. Apache Iceberg is an open table format that delivers fast query performance over large tables in data lakes. With this launch, you can enable table opt
Fair use benefits everyone
OpenAI News
OpenAI shares excerpts from court briefs by creators, academics, accessibility advocates, and legal experts, among others, on how fair use supports AI training and innovation.
Announcing General Availability of Real-Time Mode for Spark Declarative Pipelines on Databricks
Databricks Blog
We introduced Real-Time Mode (RTM) last year which enabled customers to build low-latency, operational use cases...
Why Waiting for Ready Data Is Riskier Than Starting AI Now
Snowflake Blog
I regularly have the same conversation across industries, company sizes and geographies. An executive describes years of investment in data infrastructure. A transformation program is underway, and the team is doing serious work. They have reached the reasonable conclusion that t
AWS Marketplace now enables partners to list once and sell through multiple subsidiary accounts
AWS What’s New
Today, AWS announces that AWS partners who operate multiple legal entities can publish a product listing once in their primary account and enable their local subsidiaries to sell it through direct private offers — eliminating the need to recreate and maintain duplicate listings a
L’avenir appartient à tous: Meta et INCA s’associent pour soutenir les personnes aveugles, sourdes et aveugles ou ayant une basse vision au Canada
Meta NewsroomFacebook
https://about.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/cnib_x_meta___ms4_-_rev_4_picture_lockcc_fr-2160p.mp4 Nous croyons que l’avenir appartient à tous. C’est pourquoi Meta s’associe à INCA, un organisme à but non lucratif fondé en 1918 qui aide les personnes atteintes de cécité au Can
An updated Model Spec for more capable and beneficial AI
OpenAI News
OpenAI’s updated Model Spec outlines five core values to guide more capable AI toward sound judgment, human agency, and faithfulness to human intent.
Catching Bugs Before They Land: JiTTesting’s Human-on-the-Loop Approach at Full Scale
Meta Engineering
Over the last year we’ve been sharing our work leveraging large language models to catch bugs on the fly — a novel approach we call Catching Just-in-Time Tests (JiTTests). Now, we’re sharing the results and positive impact we’ve seen with Catching JiTTests deployed into productio
Amazon Aurora now supports post-quantum TLS key exchange
AWS What’s New
Starting today, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition introduces support for post-quantum TLS (PQ-TLS) key exchange, providing you with post-quantum cryptography options for encrypting your data in transit. Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL versions 18 and higher support modificatio
Azure Cloud HSM Hardware Audit Logging: Verifiable audit trails for security and compliance
Microsoft Azure BlogSalim Chawro
Organizations running regulated and security-sensitive workloads need trusted evidence of which authenticated users performed management operations on their hardware security modules (HSMs), what actions they took, and when. Today, we are announcing Hardware Audit Logging for Azu
Smarter cost controls for serverless
Databricks Blog
At Databricks, our serverless compute usage has grown more than 3x in the past year,...
Amazon MSK Connect now supports updating connector plugins and worker configurations
AWS What’s New
Amazon MSK Connect (Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka Connect) now lets you update the custom plugin and worker configuration of an existing connector. This is useful when you need to update the custom plugin to run a new version of your connector code, for example one wi
Granite Switch 4.1.1 — Update models like you update software
Hugging Face Blog
a]:hidden" Granite Switch 4.1.1 — Update models like you update software Enterprise Article Published October 29, 2026 Upvote 10 +4 Kate Soule katesoule Follow ibm granite Luis A Lastras GrizleeBer Follow ibm granite Subhajit Chaudhury subhajit1412 Follow ibm granite Abraham Daniels abedaniels Follow ibm granite :la...
Cloudflare DDoS Threat Report 2026 Q3: More swarms, fewer giants
Cloudflare BlogCloudforce One
Welcome to the 26th edition of Cloudflare's DDoS Threat Report. This edition covers the third quarter of 2026 — July, August, and September — and returns the series to its quarterly cadence following the combined H1 2026 volume. The analysis is produced by Cloudforce One , Cloudf
Inside DigitalOcean Simulations: how user simulation, execution, and validation work
DigitalOcean Blog
Ask a coding agent which Python version to upgrade to from 3.11, and it picks one from memory. It cites a few changes from that version’s release notes and calls the upgrade straightforward. A single-turn evaluation asking “Is this a reasonable recommendation?” would likely pass
How we detect frontier model misalignment
OpenAI News
OpenAI uses layered monitoring to detect frontier model misalignment and unauthorized agent behavior so responders can intervene before incidents escalate.
AWS Step Functions workflows now available as AI agent tools
AWS What’s New
You can now use your AWS Step Functions workflows as tools for AI agents through Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway. Your agent decides when to run a workflow and what input to pass, and Step Functions runs each step exactly as you defined it. Agents can use your existing Standard
How Ropes & Gray is developing AI for transactional diligence
OpenAI News
Ropes & Gray is developing AI for transactional diligence with OpenAI. Lawyers review grouped documents, summaries, and reports before advising clients.
How Procore is powering construction analytics with OpenSharing
Databricks Blog
Connecting an industry built on disconnected dataConstruction runs on data that rarely sits in one place...
Unlocking Tensor Core Performance for Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials
NVIDIA Developer Blog
Atomistic simulations help researchers understand how molecules and materials behave, from chemical reactions and phase transitions to mechanical failure. These... Atomistic simulations help researchers understand how molecules and materials behave, from chemical reactions and ph
Introducing AnySpeechRecognizer and AnyDecisionModel: Open Models for Speech and Decisions on Apple Platforms
Hugging Face Blog
a]:hidden" Introducing AnySpeechRecognizer and AnyDecisionModel: Open Models for Speech and Decisions on Apple Platforms Published October 29, 2026 Update on GitHub Upvote 3 Mattt mattt Follow :last child]:mb 0" Language models can do a lot. They write, summarize, translate, and call tools. But they're only a small ...
Announcing Project ProtoStar: Making Publicly Funded Science AI-Ready
Hugging Face Blog
a]:hidden" Announcing Project ProtoStar: Making Publicly Funded Science AI Ready Published October 29, 2026 Update on GitHub Upvote 10 +4 Avijit Ghosh evijit Follow hfpolicy Sayeed Choudhury sayeedmd Follow CMU OSPO Greg Tananbaum gtananbaum Follow ORCA Open Emma Scharfmann EmmaScharfmann Follow hugging science Geor...
Welcome Le Chonk: Mistral Large 4 on Hugging Face
Hugging Face Blog
a]:hidden" Welcome Le Chonk: Mistral Large 4 on Hugging Face Published October 29, 2026 Update on GitHub Upvote 26 +20 merve merve Follow Alvaro Bartolome alvarobartt Follow Rémi Ouazan Reboul ror Follow Cyril Vallez cyrilvallez Follow Quentin Gallouédec qgallouedec Follow Enrique Hernández Calabrés ehcalabres Follo...
Credit Saison achieves 954% ROI in a ChatGPT Enterprise pilot
OpenAI News
Credit Saison’s ChatGPT Enterprise pilot delivered 954% ROI. See how leaders and employees helped turn the results into companywide adoption.
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports September 2026 Monthly Recommended Patch
AWS What’s New
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the September 2026 Monthly Recommended Patch (MRP) for Oracle Database version 19c and 26ai. An MRP is a minor engine version that builds on a quarterly Release Update (RU), bundling Oracle's Critical Securit
Fine-Tuning NVIDIA Nemotron to Know Local Rules, Not Just Local Languages
NVIDIA Developer Blog
As AI adoption expands globally, people across languages and cultures are using it in more aspects of their daily lives. General-purpose language models serve... As AI adoption expands globally, people across languages and cultures are using it in more aspects of their daily live
AWS Lambda supports Seekable OCI (SOCI) lazy loading for Lambda Managed Instances
AWS What’s New
AWS Lambda now supports Seekable OCI (SOCI) for lazy loading Event Functions packaged as Open Container Initiative (OCI) images running on Lambda Managed Instances . With SOCI support, Lambda fetches only the files needed at each stage of the execution environment startup rather
DigitalOcean Signals: Observability for AI Agents and Inference
DigitalOcean Blog
You ship an agent. It runs in production, sessions start and finish, and the dashboards stay green. But then a user mentions that they spent ten minutes retrying the same failing command with slightly different arguments before giving up and rephrasing the request. The problem? N
Amazon EKS Dashboard now provides fleet-wide visibility into certificate authority (CA) rotation
AWS What’s New
Today, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) announces certificate authority (CA) rotation visibility in the Amazon EKS Dashboard, giving you a consolidated view of CA rotation across your clusters. The Amazon EKS Dashboard already provides centralized visibility into yo
Voice Agents are here. Context turns them into real customer value.
Databricks Blog
Why voice, and why nowConsider three moments that happen every day in consumer businesses: At...
Amazon ECS Managed Instances adds cross-instance and Spot consolidation
AWS What’s New
Today, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Managed Instances introduces two infrastructure optimization updates: cross-instance and Spot consolidation. Cross-instance consolidation evaluates tasks running across multiple underutilized instances together, packing them on
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