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The fast feed: breaking AI news from the global tech press, deduplicated and time-ordered.

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AI is already rewiring the aftermarket and services
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AI is already rewiring the aftermarket and services

For industrial companies, applying AI to the aftermarket and services could provide a source for differentiation on top of cost and time savings and enhanced cu…

From Silos to Service Topology: Why Netflix Built a Real-Time Service Map
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From Silos to Service Topology: Why Netflix Built a Real-Time Service Map

Developer's guide to Gemini Enterprise and A2UI integration
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Developer's guide to Gemini Enterprise and A2UI integration

If you've built a chatbot, you know this conversation: User: "Book a table for two tomorrow at 7pm." Agent: "Okay, for what day?" User: "Tomorrow." Agent: "What…

Cloud CISO Perspectives: How to build an AI-ready security program for the public sector
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Cloud CISO Perspectives: How to build an AI-ready security program for the public sector

Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for May 2026. Today, Usman Chaudhary, Field CISO, Google Public Sector, offers a guide for CISOs protecting govern…

Cool stuff Google Cloud customers built, May edition: Agentic algorithms for supply chains; virtual try-on APIs; robotic camera operators & more
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Cool stuff Google Cloud customers built, May edition: Agentic algorithms for supply chains; virtual try-on APIs; robotic camera operators & more

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…

High-Throughput Graph Abstraction at Netflix: Part I
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High-Throughput Graph Abstraction at Netflix: Part I

The Next Wow Factor: A Conversation with Sidney Lu, Chairman and CEO, Foxconn Interconnect Technology (FIT)
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The Next Wow Factor: A Conversation with Sidney Lu, Chairman and CEO, Foxconn Interconnect Technology (FIT)

Sidney Lu has spent four decades building things no one thought Taiwan could build. His rule: every three years, deliver something that genuinely surprises — or…

When AI becomes part of the workflow: Redesigning how software gets built
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When AI becomes part of the workflow: Redesigning how software gets built

AI is already transforming how software is built—but most organizations are capturing only a fraction of its value. At Sonar, teams redesigned the product devel…

Airline premium cabins: Profitability at the front of the plane
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Airline premium cabins: Profitability at the front of the plane

Airlines can modernize their approach to business- and first-class revenue. Premium cabins call for differentiated strategies.…

Leading from the field: Transformation in distributed operations
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Leading from the field: Transformation in distributed operations

Don’t let your production network transformation get bogged down. For faster, stronger results, put site leaders in front—while providing direction from the cen…

From Family Business to Diversified Powerhouse: A Conversation with Daniel Tsai, Chairman, Fubon Group
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From Family Business to Diversified Powerhouse: A Conversation with Daniel Tsai, Chairman, Fubon Group

How Daniel Tsai transformed a family insurer into one of Asia’s most diversified — and most resilient — business empires.…

How Trustpilot built a real-time architecture for data enrichment using Gemma
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How Trustpilot built a real-time architecture for data enrichment using Gemma

Processing millions of user reviews in real-time, under strict latency and cost constraints, is no easy task. Trustpilot has been doing exactly that with custom…

The next gold rush: How the Bay Area can keep its edge in the AI era
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The next gold rush: How the Bay Area can keep its edge in the AI era

San Francisco is driving the AI revolution. How can the Bay Area sustain and expand this innovation ecosystem in the years to come?…

The fully-managed Remote MCP Server for AlloyDB is now Generally Available
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The fully-managed Remote MCP Server for AlloyDB is now Generally Available

AI agents possess incredible reasoning capabilities and can perform increasingly complex actions. But the reliability of agentic outcomes depends entirely on th…

What Google Cloud announced in AI this month
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What Google Cloud announced in AI this month

Editor’s note: Want to keep up with the latest from Google Cloud? Check back here for a monthly recap of our latest updates, announcements, resources, events, l…

When warranty costs rival R&D spend: Remaking vehicle quality with AI
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When warranty costs rival R&D spend: Remaking vehicle quality with AI

As warranty costs surge, automakers are turning to AI-enabled quality systems to detect risks earlier and reduce financial exposure.…

Dynamic Repartitioning for Time Series Workloads
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Dynamic Repartitioning for Time Series Workloads

Doubling Down on Suno, the Platform for Creative Entertainment
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Doubling Down on Suno, the Platform for Creative Entertainment

Every major consumer platform is built on a new behavior. TikTok made short-form video consumption mainstream. Netflix changed how we watch TV. Suno is doing so…

Latino economic mobility: Insights from five years of research
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Latino economic mobility: Insights from five years of research

This compendium brings together five years of McKinsey research on how Latinos are reshaping America’s economic future and why expanding opportunity for this dy…

How CEOs can navigate the new era of trade
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How CEOs can navigate the new era of trade

AI, geopolitical realignment, and shifting capital flows are redrawing trade corridors and reshaping competitive advantage—forcing leaders to rethink where and …

Preparing for agentic commerce: REWE’s AI transformation
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Preparing for agentic commerce: REWE’s AI transformation

The German retail and tourism group’s chief digital and technology officer says AI is “the most fundamental change in the way we do business in 50 years.”…

Embracing complexity: Parloa’s vision for next-gen customer experience
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Embracing complexity: Parloa’s vision for next-gen customer experience

Chris Silver, chief revenue officer at Parloa, talks with McKinsey partner Brian Blackader about the shift to adopting AI technologies in customer care, getting…

Reducing container cold start times using SOCI index on DLAMI and DLC
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Reducing container cold start times using SOCI index on DLAMI and DLC

In this post, we look at how to use SOCI on publicly available Deep Learning AMIs and Containers, when to use the various SOCI modes provided by the tool, and h…

Fundamental’s Large Tabular Model NEXUS is now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
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Fundamental’s Large Tabular Model NEXUS is now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

In this post, we show you how to get started with NEXUS on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, walk through the deployment process, and demonstrate how to run predictio…

Automate model quota request and operational issue triage on Amazon Bedrock
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Automate model quota request and operational issue triage on Amazon Bedrock

In this post, we introduce Amazon Bedrock Ops Alert, a three-layer automated monitoring solution that proactively detects operational issues, dynamically adjust…

Author Talks: How to succeed when systems fail
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Author Talks: How to succeed when systems fail

What if the fastest way to transform an organization is through crisis? Marina Nitze explains how crises expose hidden failures—and create rare opportunities fo…

What's new for Managed Service for Apache Spark clusters
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What's new for Managed Service for Apache Spark clusters

At Google Cloud, our goal is to let you run large-scale analytical and data science workloads with maximum efficiency so you can process big data pipelines, mac…

Resetting cost competitiveness in pulp and paper packaging
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Resetting cost competitiveness in pulp and paper packaging

Overcapacity, volatile costs, and weak demand are compressing margins. Successful companies are harnessing AI to pursue cross-functional interventions that targ…

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
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NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Deploy NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. Get 5x faster inference and 30% lower cost for agentic AI workloads with this frontier reasoning m…

Co-Existence and the End of Co-Intelligence
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Co-Existence and the End of Co-Intelligence

Also: how pitch a book to an AI!…