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Google announces confidential-inference and dense-memory TPU systems News
Google says TPU 8tx targets confidential workloads while TPU 8i Max combines two chips for greater compute and memory bandwidth.
GitHub connects Copilot cloud work across devices and prices model orchestration News
GitHub made connected Copilot cloud sessions generally available on paid plans while keeping Projects and desktop computer use in public preview.
OpenAI models come to Google Cloud after April’s contract change News
OpenAI and Google Cloud announced Model Garden distribution and Marketplace purchasing, with general availability planned in the coming weeks.
Gartner warned that AI infrastructure spending could outrun owners’ returns News
Gartner projects more than $3.5 trillion of AI infrastructure spending could face impairment risk by 2030 if the current spending pace continues.
New Pro and Max Cowork tasks move to the cloud on October 6 News
Anthropic says new Pro and Max Cowork tasks will run in the cloud from October 6, while already-started local tasks remain local.
Simon Willison calls for default spending stops as AI agents keep the meter running News
Simon Willison called for default hard spending caps, while provider documentation shows that alerts and enforced usage stops remain distinct controls.
The '70% of Cloud AI Revenue Comes From OpenAI and Anthropic' Figure Is Not Derivable News
A widely shared claim that most of Amazon, Microsoft and Google's AI revenue circles back from OpenAI and Anthropic rests on anonymous-source estimates, mismatched fiscal quarters and, for Google, an admission that the number cannot be calculated at all.
NVIDIA Starts Taking a Share of Its Cloud Partners' Revenue, Not Just Selling Them Chips News
NVIDIA announced a new arrangement where it earns a share of the cloud revenue its partners generate from NVIDIA-supported data center capacity, on top of its usual chip sales, with first partners Sharon AI and Firmus building campuses totaling hundreds of thousands of GPUs.
exe.dev Tool
Persistent Linux virtual machines built for AI agents, with root access, SSH, a public hostname, a real network stack, and secrets injected by a host-side proxy rather than handed to the agent. Priced two ways: pooled capacity for steady workloads and per-second usage billing for bursty ones.
WeatherNext models on Google Cloud Tool
Google DeepMind's AI weather forecasts, available as a developer API and as raw forecast data in Earth Engine, BigQuery and Vertex AI, with ensemble scenarios out to 15 days.
GitHub Copilot connected cloud sessions Tool
Paid-plan cloud coding sessions continue across GitHub, mobile, editor, and command-line surfaces, with resumable managed sandboxes.
Claude Cowork Tool
Anthropic’s shipping task workspace; its documentation says new Pro and Max tasks run in the cloud from October 6 while existing local tasks can continue.
Claude Code Projects beta Tool
Anthropic's beta coordinates parallel Claude Code cloud sessions with separate branches, project instructions, plugins, and configurable models.
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox Tool
A managed VM-isolated sandbox service for agent execution, reinforcement learning and evaluation, with checkpointing, restore and batch-copy capabilities documented by Alibaba Cloud.
AWS Agent Toolkit for AWS Tool
Official AWS-supported set of MCP servers, skills, and plugins for building AI agents that work with Amazon's cloud services, maintained by AWS itself.