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Today is Claude Fable (and Mythos) 5.1 day. Anthropic say that Fable 5.1 "sets a new standard for coding, knowledge work, and long-running problem-solving tasks". Their announcement spends a notable amount of time on…
Now generally available, Amazon Quick lets you build custom applications by simply describing them in natural language. Create project trackers, customer dashboards, and training portals in minutes instead of months.…
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity now offers a managed consent portal that eliminates the need for custom OAuth callback infrastructure when connecting agents to third-party tools and services. Developers using…
Try building and deploying your own Streamlit RAG agent on Cloud Run today → https://g.dev/cloud/cloud-run-console Access the official codelab documentation to get started → https://g.dev/cloud/rag-agent-adk This…
AWS Deadline Cloud now supports sharing job bundles, giving teams a simple way to distribute and reuse render job templates without manual file distribution. Deadline Cloud is a fully managed service that helps teams…
Like many readers, I’m wary of AI generated prose. Simon Wilison has written an LLM cliché highlighter - paste in some text, or a URL, and it will flag various patterns common to LLMs. It references a wikipedia page of…
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports a dry run feature to check whether an API request would succeed without executing the operation. Customers can now set the new optional parameter ‘DryRun’ to true in their API…
Today, AWS announces support for self-managed PostgreSQL databases in Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights. Using CloudWatch Database Insights, you can now monitor your self-managed PostgreSQL instances running on Amazon…
I am excited to announce that etcd RangeStream is graduating to beta in Kubernetes v1.37. Paired with etcd v3.7, it reduces the memory the API server and etcd need to read a large collection, and makes peak usage more…
Tool: GeoJSON Map Viewer I was helping Natalie gather some maps of local political boundaries (for the Granada Community Services District and the Midcoast Community Council) and found a need to display some GeoJSON…
Learn more about Dynatrace → https://g.dev/ai/observability-age-of-ai Get started with Dynatrace on the Google Cloud Marketplace today → https://g.dev/cloud/google-cloud-marketplace Learn more about Google Gemini →…
AWS Backup now supports backup and restore of more than 1,000 Amazon S3 buckets per account, matching the Amazon S3 bucket quota configured for your account. Previously, AWS Backup for Amazon S3 supported up to 1,000…
AWS Marketplace now offers a 0% listing fee for professional services purchased as part of a qualifying multi-product solution. This builds on the recent reduction of professional services listing fee to 0.5%. It…
They took the letters from me! I have to talk about dwarf behavior now. I can't even talk about dwarf AI. It doesn't exist. It's dwarf behavior, and they misbehave sometimes — Tarn Adams, co-creator of Dwarf Fortress…
Amazon Connect Customer now offers compact mode on the analytics dashboards, increasing data density so supervisors can see more of their operational data without scrolling. Compact mode reduces widget size, font, and…