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Anthropic secures massive compute deals with SpaceX, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft
Anthropic has secured significant compute resources through five major deals scheduled to be operational by May 2026, including partnerships with SpaceX, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Fluidstack. While headlines boast …
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Microsoft launches Azure AI Foundry for building and scaling AI workflows
Microsoft has launched Azure AI Foundry, a new initiative aimed at streamlining the development and deployment of AI workflows. This platform is designed to guide users from initial concept to scalable production enviro…
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ServiceNow offers AI Control Tower to prevent agent chaos and provide a kill switch
ServiceNow is launching its AI Control Tower to address the growing risks associated with AI agents in enterprise environments. The platform aims to provide governance and control over AI deployments, mitigating issues …
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AMD's AI infrastructure push drives 57% data center revenue growth
AMD reported a 57% surge in data center revenue, reaching $5.8 billion in the first quarter, largely driven by demand for its EPYC CPUs and Instinct GPUs. This growth is fueled by increased spending on AI infrastructure…
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Databricks builds Hydra platform to handle 10 trillion daily monitoring samples
Databricks has developed a new monitoring platform called Hydra to handle its rapidly expanding infrastructure, which now tracks over 5 billion active timeseries and ingests 10 trillion samples daily. The platform was b…
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IREN acquires Mirantis for $625M to boost AI compute utilization
AI infrastructure operator IREN has acquired Mirantis for $625 million in an all-stock deal to enhance its AI cloud platform. The acquisition aims to address the challenge of converting deployed GPUs into usable, revenu…
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ServiceNow launches AI Control Tower to manage enterprise agent sprawl and security
ServiceNow has enhanced its AI Control Tower, transforming it into an enterprise-wide command center for managing AI assets. The updated platform now offers discovery, observation, governance, security, and measurement …
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nOps rebuilds cloud optimization platform on Databricks Lakebase for unified architecture
nOps, a cloud cost optimization platform managing over $4 billion in annual cloud spend, has rebuilt its production application using Databricks Lakebase. This migration eliminated the need for separate relational datab…
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MCPwn exploits reveal risky AI supply chains with single maintainers
A new security analysis by MCPwn has revealed significant vulnerabilities in the supply chains of 14 widely used MCP servers. These servers, which connect AI assistants to various services like GitHub and Slack, were fo…
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MCPwn exploits reveal risky AI server supply chains with single maintainers
A new security analysis by MCPwn has revealed significant vulnerabilities in the supply chains of 14 widely used MCP servers. These servers, which connect AI assistants to various services like GitHub and Slack, were fo…
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Microsoft retires older Azure VM instances, citing CPU advancements
Microsoft is phasing out older virtual machine instances on its Azure cloud platform, with 13 specific types set to be retired in 2028. The company will stop accepting reservations for these older VM flavors, many of wh…
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Cloud giants surge amid geopolitical turmoil and rising energy costs
Cloud computing giants Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud reported significant growth, with Azure up 40%, Google Cloud up 63%, and AWS experiencing its fastest growth in 15 quarters. This surge in cloud services occurred amid…
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Azure introduces token rate limiting for AI applications on AKS
Azure has introduced a new solution for managing AI expenses by implementing token rate limiting on a per-application basis. This feature utilizes the Application Network and an agent gateway to provide granular control…
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New benchmark evaluates LLM agents for cyber threat investigation tasks
Researchers have introduced ExCyTIn-Bench, a new benchmark designed to evaluate Large Language Model (LLM) agents in the domain of cyber threat investigation. This benchmark utilizes security logs from a controlled Azur…
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Microsoft experts discuss PostgreSQL's evolution into an 'everything database'
Microsoft employees Varun Dhawan and Abe Omorogbe are presenting at POSETTE 2026 on the evolving role of PostgreSQL. Dhawan will discuss PostgreSQL's transformation into an 'everything database,' moving beyond its tradi…
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AI reshapes ad tech: Alphabet soars, OpenAI amends Microsoft deal, X overhauls stack
Microsoft and OpenAI have amended their partnership agreement, removing revenue share payments and granting OpenAI a non-exclusive license for intellectual property. This change allows OpenAI to utilize any cloud provid…
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Budapest transit authority BKK uses Databricks to unify city mobility data
Budapest's public transport authority, BKK, has partnered with Databricks to modernize its data analytics capabilities. By migrating to the Databricks Lakehouse on Azure, BKK has unified disparate datasets from buses, t…
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Dew Drop Newsletter covers AI, .NET, and web dev topics for May 1, 2026
The Dew Drop Weekly Newsletter, issue 481, covers developments up to May 1, 2026. It includes a wide range of technical topics such as ASP.NET Core, CSS, Azure, JavaScript, C++, .NET, and AI. The newsletter also touches…
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Hyperscalers' AI demand outstrips infrastructure, driving massive capital spending
Major hyperscalers like Amazon, Google, and Meta are reporting significant increases in capital expenditures, driven by surging AI demand that is outstripping current infrastructure capacity. These companies are investi…
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Microsoft AI business hits $37B run rate as search ads rebound
Microsoft's AI business has achieved an annual revenue run rate of $37 billion, according to recent financial reports. This growth is accompanied by a resurgence in search ad revenue, which has climbed back to 12%. Addi…