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AWS shows how an AI assistant can answer questions that span two databases while each user sees only the data they are cleared to see.
Read more: AWS shows how an AI assistant can answer questions across two databasesCNET's review calls Proton VPN's free plan one of the few worth trusting, while its paid plan costs less than most rivals but slows connections more.
Read more: Proton VPN's free plan is one of the few worth trustingA new book says the AI boom is pushing tech giants to burn fossil fuels, undercutting their climate pledges and straining the towns that host data centers.
Read more: AI data centers are burning fossil fuels and undoing climate pledgesCloudflare has released Clairic in preview, an AI model that pulls fields like invoice totals out of documents faster and cheaper than chatbot-style models, it says.
Read more: Cloudflare's new AI reads invoices and forms faster and cheaperGo's emergency update makes programs refuse connections tied to eight certificate keys, so rebuilt software could suddenly fail to reach some sites and services.
Read more: Go update blocks eight certificate keys, may break some connectionsGoogle, Red Hat and IBM released llm-d 1.0, free software that helps companies serve AI models faster, with Google reporting big gains on one test.
Read more: Google and partners release free software to run AI models fasterA Google Cloud outage early Tuesday disrupted UK banking services, including Revolut. It shows how one tech provider can stall many everyday services at once.
Read more: Google Cloud outage knocks out Revolut and other UK banking servicesFirms that rent out computing power for AI are losing favor with investors, and that could affect the cost of AI tools your business rents.
Read more: Companies Renting Out AI Computing Power Lose Investor FavorGoogle now offers a ready-made AI search tool that runs fully offline inside secure networks, so sensitive files never leave the building.
Read more: Google adds private document search with Gemini AI for locked-down networksGoogle has released a preview of an AI agent for government work. It is meant to cut paperwork and review time, and it affects anyone who serves or contracts with agencies.
Read more: Google launches a Gemini AI agent for government agencies, in previewA power fault at Google's London cloud site stalled court hearings and blocked payments at Lloyds, HSBC and Revolut for hours on Tuesday.
Read more: Google cloud outage in London knocks out UK banks and courtsInception says its new Mercury 3 model answers 4x to 8x faster than similar AI models. The claim is unproven, but speed could change how useful AI feels.
Read more: Inception's Mercury 3 AI model claims 4x to 8x faster answersElice, a Korean data-center company, fell more than 30% on its first day of trading, and AirTrunk reportedly delayed its own IPO. Here is why it matters.
Read more: Korean data-center firm Elice drops over 30% on its first trading dayAmazon's AI service can now force Claude to answer in a set structure, so apps that fill forms and records get fewer broken or missing entries.
Read more: Claude on Amazon Bedrock can now return data in a strict, fixed formatCloudflare cut the average cost of an AI code review from $2.43 to $0.77 and made reviews faster. The fixes apply to anyone running AI tools.
Read more: Cloudflare cut its AI code review cost 68% with caching and routingAWS says a change to how vLLM shares saved work between servers cuts the wait for a first reply by up to 3.3x in long, multi-turn AI chats.
Read more: Bi-directional KV transfer cuts vLLM time to first token up to 3.3xGoogle Cloud published a guide to building interactive apps that run inside Gemini Enterprise chat, so users can click and adjust instead of typing every change.
Read more: Google shows how to build interactive MCP Apps inside Gemini Enterprise
