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Introducing Google Cloud Modernize, transforming for (and with) AI
Today, we’re announcing Google Cloud Modernize, an end-to-end transformation portfolio to help enterprises collapse multi-year roadmaps with the power of AI. Google Cloud Modernize brings together Goo...
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Stripe to expand stablecoin cards to over 100 countries by the end of the year
The payments giant is planning a major global expansion for its stablecoin cards business, and is exploring tokenized deposits and DeFi use cases, new crypto head Henri Stern said.
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AMD just flaunted its own 192GB monster chip to spoil Nvidia’s RTX Spark party — Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 should worry Apple, too
AMD just showed off its 192GB Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 silicon to preempt Nvidia’s RTX Spark. From 160GB of VRAM to native x86 power, here is why Apple should worry too.
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mlreserve: machine-learning loss reserving on ‘real-world’ triangles (based on a ‘ChainLadder’ fork)
This post presents a function `mlReserve()` for machine-learning loss reserving on 'real-world' triangles, based on a fork of the 'ChainLadder' package. It includes two experiments, each scored agains...
5 min readAI21 achieves an 83% reduction in time-to-start for AI workloads with AI Hypercomputer
Editor’s note: AI21 Labs is a leading global AI lab with a long track record of building foundation models, most notably the Jamba family, and today focuses on specialized LLMs and agent optimization ...
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Nvidia Hits Record High as Market Value Reaches $5.7 Trillion
The AI chipmaker's stock topped its May peak on Friday, helped by a record $150 billion buyback and a weak jobs report that cooled bets on Fed rate hikes.
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Enabling Cloud Storage end-to-end checksums for improved data integrity and durability
At Google Cloud, we know that you count on us to maintain the durability and integrity of your data at all times, both at rest and in transit. And now we’re making it easier for developers to take adv...
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Democratizing Managed Lustre with lower cost and frictionless development
This is the first of a two-part series exploring how Google Cloud is bringing the foundational values of a high-performance parallel filesystem–TB/s throughput, sub-ms latency at high client scale, an...
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MetaMask Exits Lido Validators Amid Infrastructure ‘Security Incident’
The wallet says it has found no immediate threat to user wallets, but the ETH it is pulling out of Lido could take 45 days to return.
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Introducing the Server Side Cloud Swift SDK
For years, Swift was perceived mainly as a UI language tied to Apple client devices. With Swift 6 and strict concurrency checking, it has matured into a viable systems and cloud language, pairing Rust...
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Spanner Omni, now GA: A distributed, multi-model database that you can deploy anywhere
Spanner Omni, the deploy-anywhere version of Spanner, is now generally available, ready to power your most demanding production workloads in your on-premises data center or on other clouds. With Span...
5 min readEmpower your agents with the Google Cloud CLI remote MCP server
Today, we’re expanding our ecosystem of managed remote MCP servers by introducing the Google Cloud CLI remote MCP server in preview. Powered by the popular gcloud and bq (BigQuery) command-line tools,...
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Cloud CISO Perspectives: How cybersecurity startups can win CISOs
Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for September 2026. Today, Alicja Cade and Nick Godfrey, senior directors, Office of the CISO, share their guidance for cybersecurity startups on how to w...
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Crypto Long & Short: What will the AI agents run on?
You're reading Crypto Long & Short, our weekly newsletter featuring insights, news and analysis for the professional investor. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Wednesday. Note: The views...
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