AI Briefing#cloud-computing
The latest AI and developer news about #cloud-computing, with the original source and a short summary.
The latest AI and developer news about #cloud-computing, with the original source and a short summary.
The update applies automatically to all plans and build machine types at no additional charge.
Azure cloud revenue grew 48% year-over-year, driving total first-quarter revenue to $92.3 billion and profit to $36.6 billion.
The plugin allows users to start agents in the cloud from a laptop and control them via phone, saving files and history when the sandbox stops.
AWS PCS reduces HPC operational burden through zero-downtime upgrades and inter-queue node sharing.
The offering provides day-zero access to new Claude features, uses existing Google Cloud IAM credentials, and draws down existing Google Cloud commitments.
AWS takes over the operational burden of ParallelCluster head nodes, guaranteeing a 99.9% SLA.
Eligible enterprise customers can apply existing OpenAI commitments toward third-party products, including open models served by Baseten.
Akamai announced a $11.6 billion multi-year agreement with Anthropic, with potential expansion to $20 billion and a warrant for up to 5% of Akamai's stock.
A simulation shows adding call options to annual GPU rentals raises average costs slightly but cuts worst-case hourly rates from $10.91 to $7.20.
Existing Claude Pro and Max subscribers can claim a one-time credit of $100 or $250 respectively for Claude Code cloud sessions by October 7.
TBC announced a partnership with AWS to commercialize an AI video model trained on neurons, claiming an 80% reduction in inference costs.
Finnish AI infrastructure company Verda raised $189 million in a Series B round, surpassing $450 million in total funding and becoming Europe's newest unicorn.
Devin has launched features allowing users to create and control cloud sessions from the terminal and access VMs via SSH.
AWS has officially launched the new low-cost burstable EC2 T8i instances, offering up to 30% better price-performance compared to T3.
Vercel has unveiled 'Fluid,' a new compute layer that runs builds, sandboxes, and functions in a single system to reduce latency for agent workloads.
AWS Lambda has expanded to a total of four execution models by adding three new options—always-on, long-running workflows, and code sandboxes—alongside the existing per-invocation execution model.
Amazon announced that it will shut down its crowdsourcing platform Mechanical Turk as of September 30, 2026.
Amp has launched 'Orbs', a remote AI coding agent that runs in the cloud and supports sleep/wake cycles, multiplayer collaboration, and inter-agent communication.
Amazon EC2 celebrated its 20th anniversary by highlighting the expansion of its cloud infrastructure based on AI and custom silicon.
Vercel has launched Deployment Storage, enabling instant rollbacks by preserving deployment files.
AWS is establishing permanent spaces for developer communities called 'AWS Builder Loft' in Berlin, Hyderabad, and São Paulo.
Vercel has increased the concurrent execution limits and vCPU allocation rates for Sandbox on Pro and Enterprise plans.
Anthropic is reportedly signing a $10 billion, six-year cloud contract with Volta.
As AI hyperscalers' borrowing surges, warning signs are flashing over the sustainability of their financing.