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I put together these annotated slides from my five minute lightning talk at PyCon US 2026, using the latest iteration of my annotated presentation tool. # I presented this lightning talk at PyCon US 2

When most people think of A/B experimentation, they think of button colors, landing page layouts, or checkout flows. At Google, many fundamental infrastructure improvements also need the rigor of A/B

The Gemini Live Agent Challenge is officially in the books! We challenged developers worldwide to break out of the traditional 'text box' paradigm by building next-generation AI agents. From our initi

Cisco announced nearly 4,000 job cuts as part of a restructuring to shift investment toward artificial intelligence while simultaneously raising its annual revenue forecast after strong hyperscaler de

Dell Technologies Inc.’s launch of the AI Factory two years ago this month was positioned by the company as “advancements to manage and protect the data that fuels AI innovation.” This one phrase enca

Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: Q&A with Amazon SVP of Devices and Alexa Panos Panay on Alexa+, the company's focus on devices for the home, its Leo satellite broadband business, and more — Execu

Rivian released its new Rivian Assistant AI feature as part of software update 2026.15, enabling owners to interact more naturally with their vehicles through voice commands. Unlike phone-mirroring vo

This article explains how to implement and deploy GPU workloads in a truly serverless architecture, likely covering Modal's approach to abstracting away infrastructure management while providing GPU c

The FCC extended its deadline for software updates on foreign-made routers from March 1, 2027, to January 1, 2029 , allowing already-authorized devices to receive critical security patches longer desp

Across the public sector, the conversation has shifted; we are no longer just talking about the potential of AI, we are already seeing the impact. While visionary leadership and cultural buy-in are cr

Frontier AI models have redefined the unit of compute. At trillion-parameter scale, AI training requires thousands of interconnected components, orchestrated in industrial-scale deployments to operate

This newsletter covers three main topics: the relationship between AI capabilities relative to human intelligence (RSI) and its potential economic impacts, regulatory approaches that emphasize flexibi

MachinaCheck is a multi-agent AI system designed to assess the manufacturability of parts for CNC (Computer Numerical Control) machining, built on AMD's MI300X GPU architecture. The system likely leve

Post-training quantization is a technique that reduces model size and improves inference performance by converting weights and activations to lower precision formats after training is complete. NVIDIA

The world of AI is rapidly shifting from experimental Large Language Models to an era of Agentic AI. In the agentic era, autonomous software agents act on behalf of employees and consumers—driving a f

IBM Research reflects on ten years of quantum computing development and deployment through cloud-based platforms, documenting the evolution from early experimental systems to more practical quantum pr

AMD has announced HDMI 2.1 support for Linux and SteamOS, enabling higher bandwidth for 4K 120Hz gaming and variable refresh rate (VRR) . The initial update includes HDMI Fixed Rate Link but excludes

This article from Together AI discusses foundational research techniques and methodologies used to enable efficient large-scale language model inference. It likely covers optimization strategies, hard

Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for April 2026. Today, Francis deSouza, COO Google Cloud and President, Security Products, explains why Google is multicloud and multi-AI, straight from N

OpenAI outlines the computational infrastructure requirements and strategies necessary to support advanced AI systems in the emerging Intelligence Age. The piece likely discusses scaling challenges, h

Wen-Yee Lee / Reuters: Filing: TSMC sold its remaining 1.11M Arm shares at 207.65 per share for a total of ~231M this week; TSMC invested ~100M in Arm's 2023 IPO at 51 per share — Taiwan Semiconductor

The momentum is undeniable: the world’s fastest-growing AI startups are building with Google Cloud. Instead of stitching together fragmented point solutions, founders are building their businesses her

Cisco Systems Inc.’s new Universal Quantum Switch introduced last week is a strong proof point regarding the network’s importance in scaling quantum. For information technology leaders, the key takeaw

DigitalOcean describes their optimization and deployment of three large language models (DeepSeek V3.2, MiniMax-M2.5, and Qwen 3.5 397B) on their Serverless Inference platform, likely leveraging NVIDI

On March 5, 2026, the much-anticipated paper for FlashAttention-4 (FA4) was published. The code was dropped on GitHub months ago; early benchmarks circulated, and preliminary results were presented at

DeepSeek released V4 Pro (1.6T-A49B) and Flash (284B-A13B) models in both base and instruct variants, with optimizations enabling them to run on Huawei Ascend chips. These releases represent updates t

Chinese artificial intelligence developer DeepSeek today released a new series of open-source large language models. V4, as the algorithm family is called, comprises two LLMs on launch. There’s the fl

NASA has put its Lunar Gateway space station project on hold because of corrosion found in two main modules, HALO and I-HAB. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman testified before Congress that both the L

Reuters: Elon Musk says Tesla plans to use Intel's 14A process technology to make chips at its Terafab project, which would make Tesla the first major customer for 14A — Tesla (TSLA.O) CEO Elon Musk s

Bloomberg: TSMC says it will hold off on using ASML's most advanced high-NA EUV machines, costing upwards of €350M apiece, for chip production through 2029 to save money — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufac

Reuters: TSMC SVP Kevin Zhang says the company plans to open an advanced chip packaging plant in Arizona by 2029 and that construction has begun — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (2330.TW) plans

Today, we announced the preview of Spanner Omni, a downloadable version of Spanner, that expands its industry-leading distributed database capabilities beyond Google Cloud. This enables enterprises to

The era of agentic AI is accelerating from human- to machine-speed operations, while also creating profound stress on legacy technology infrastructure. This new reality pushes foundational systems to

This article demonstrates running Gemma 4, Google's open-weight language model, on NVIDIA's Jetson Orin Nano Super edge computing device. It likely covers the model's capabilities, performance metrics

Jordan Novet / CNBC: IBM reports Q1 revenue up 9% YoY to 15.92B, vs. 15.62B est., software revenue up 11% to $7.05B, and maintains FY 2026 guidance; IBM drops 7%+ after hours — IBM shares slipped 6% i

The future is taking shape in Las Vegas this week, where the world’s leading startups are showcasing their groundbreaking AI work at Google Cloud Next. Whether they need the top AI models, infrastruct

This week at Google Cloud Next ‘26, we are sharing the evolution of Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), delivering leading performance, efficiency, security, and scale for your most demanding and complex

While generative AI sparked a revolution, the true paradigm shift is the rapid evolution from standalone AI models to multi-agent autonomous systems. In this new era, the network transcends basic conn

The main stage at Google Cloud Next is where the vision is set. This year, we’re bridging the gap between those massive 'Cloud-scale' announcements and your local terminal. We are thrilled to announce

This DigitalOcean guide covers strategies and best practices for deploying and optimizing very large language models (600 billion+ parameters) on cloud infrastructure, focusing on inference performanc

Qiskit v2.4 represents the latest release of IBM's open-source quantum computing framework, introducing new features and improvements to the software development kit for quantum programming. The relea

This year's PyCon US is coming up next month from May 13th to May 19th, with the core conference talks from Friday 15th to Sunday 17th and tutorial and sprint days either side. It's in Long Beach, Cal

Editor’s note: Today we hear from Perry Nightingale, SVP of Creative AI at WPP about the workflow that cuts training time for humanoid robots from days to minutes — plus access to the open-source code

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Apple endorses the ~$11.6B Amazon-Globalstar deal, citing a “proven track record” with Amazon infrastructure; Apple holds a ~20% stake in Globalstar — Amazon.com Inc.'s takeov

AI and cloud technology are reshaping every corner of every industry around the world. Without our customers, who are building the future on our platform, there would be no Google Cloud. In this regul

During the NBA Play-In Tournament on April 15, 2026, Amazon Prime Video's stream of the Miami Heat vs. Charlotte Hornets game went offline for nearly two minutes in overtime, with the audio feed cutti