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Building multi-Region resiliency for AWS CloudFormation custom resource deployment
AWS CloudFormation is the foundational tool of infrastructure-as-code for thousands of organizations running workloads on AWS. But as teams push the boundaries of what CloudFormation can do natively, custom resources have emerged as a powerful extension mechanism that unlocks a broad range of possib...
Accelerating the frontiers of scientific discovery: Google’s $40M commitment to the Genesis Mission
Google commits $40M in AI tokens and credits for the Genesis Mission
Architecting offline-first generative AI applications for edge deployments using AWS services
According to Siemens’ 2024 report The True Cost of Downtime, Fortune 500 companies lose an estimated $1.4 trillion annually because of unplanned downtime. This downtime is often worsened by a lack of skills to detect and resolve issues quickly. Generative AI offers a promising path to address this, ...
Automate custom PII detection at scale with Amazon Macie and Step Functions
Organizations in regulated industries like financial services, insurance, healthcare, and government ingest large volumes of data containing personally identifiable information (PII). Your applications, claims processing systems, partner data feeds, and internal workflows produce files that may incl...
Building AI infrastructure with the Effingham County community
OpenAI announces Project Camellia in Effingham County, Georgia, with commitments to responsible energy, community investment, jobs, and access to Codex.
How news organizations are using AI to advance their vital missions
News organizations are using AI to strengthen reporting, grow audiences, and improve business operations, with OpenAI tools supporting journalists and publishers worldwide.
Advancing the next era of national science
OpenAI outlines its commitment to advancing American science working with the U.S. Department of Energy and national labs to use frontier AI to accelerate discovery.
One service, many doors: Multi-port services in Consul
Native multi-port support lets Consul model applications the way teams understand them, resulting in one identity, multiple named ports, and less catalog clutter.
Introducing OpenAI Presence
Introducing OpenAI Presence, a proven enterprise AI agent platform that helps organizations deploy trusted voice and chat agents for customer and internal workflows.
Session revocations at scale
How Canva keeps hundreds of millions of user sessions fast and secure
NTT DATA Group cuts incident analysis to 30 minutes with Codex
NTT DATA Group uses ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to help 9,000 employees automate work, cut incident analysis to 30 minutes, and scale secure AI adoption.
Modernize Java with Cursor and GitLab
"Modernize Java 8 to Java 21" sounds like one task. It is not. It touches the build, the runtime, dependencies, APIs, concurrency, tests, containers, and production behavior, often all at once. Ask an agent to do all of that in one prompt, and you get one enormous merge request that nobody can safel...
Unbiased Java CPU profiling with JFR in JDK 25
Modern Java profilers often rely on unsupported JVM internals for accurate CPU profiling. Here’s how engineers from Datadog, SAP, Amazon, and the OpenJDK community helped bring a new CPU profiling event to JDK 25.
From zero to traces: Choosing the right APM instrumentation method for your stack
Learn why Single Step Instrumentation is our default recommendation for setting up APM traces, and when to consider other methods.
Setting a World Record for MoE Pre-Training on NVIDIA GB300 NVL72
Frontier model pre-training has converged on mixture of experts (MoE), which is fundamentally changing what limits large-scale AI training. As compute per token...
Inside NVIDIA Rubin GPU Architecture: Powering the Era of Agentic AI
What began as discrete AI model training and human-facing chat interfaces has evolved into always-on AI factories dedicated to producing intelligence at scale....
NVIDIA Vera CPU: Olympus Cores Built for Maximum Single-Thread Performance in Agentic AI
Agentic AI shifts more of the critical execution path onto the CPU. Agents operate in sandboxes to execute code, invoke tools, retrieve context, interact with...
Introducing the ChatGPT for small business program
OpenAI launches the ChatGPT for Small Businesses program, helping entrepreneurs build AI skills, automate work, and grow with ChatGPT Work.
Autonomous infrastructure: Managing complexity in agentic workflows
AI agents are changing infrastructure operations. Learn the seven layers required to scale autonomy with confidence, control, and visibility.
Introducing Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
We’re introducing new Gemini models, including Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber.
Inside Roblox’s Bet on World Models
We sat down with Anupam Singh, senior vice president of engineering at Roblox, to hear from him about the world model that Roblox is using to make its multiplayer games look photorealistic, the key insights that have come from taking that approach, and the next big thing that the Roblox team is focu...
What Matters Most for NoSQL Migrations
How to prioritize the things that matter most for planning, executing and de-risking your NoSQL database migration
Fragments: July 21
With this post, I’ll wrap up my notes from the second Future of Software Development Retreat. But before I do, I should note that the full Thoughtworks report on the retreat is now available. They have five headline findings: Code generation is no longer the bottleneck — verification is. ‘Harness en...
Engineering quality compounds
Mike Shaver joins Tailscale to scale engineering quality.
AI speeds software development. Is your secret security keeping up?
As AI accelerates software development, secret sprawl is becoming one of the fastest growing sources of security, compliance, and operational risk.