Cloud & Infrastructure
Cloud & Infrastructure news — Monday 28 September 2026
27 stories from 6 sources, every one in English. Each links to its publisher.
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You picked Claude Sonnet 5.5 — but Anthropic may send your request to Sonnet 5
The New Stack
Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5.5 , released Monday , is the first Sonnet model to launch with cyber safeguards and model fallbacks like those the company developed for its most capable models, putting classifier-driven routing in the tier…
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OpenAI exposes “new variety of prompt injection” that can spread like computer worms
The New Stack
In a report published Friday, OpenAI shares evidence of a new variety of prompt injection that can self-propagate like a computer worm. The AI company likens the new attack to a traditional computer worm, where malware replicates itself to…
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Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5.5 with near-Opus performance at half the price
The New Stack
Anthropic on Monday launched Claude Sonnet 5.5 , the latest version of its workhorse model and the second model in the Claude 5.5 family (after Opus 5.5 , which launched last week). A new version of Claude Haiku , the smallest and most…
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Meta hired MongoDB’s CEO to build its enterprise AI business — but Llama is missing
The New Stack
Meta announced on Monday that it is building a new enterprise business around its AI models and agents and has hired MongoDB CEO CJ Desai to run it. The effort, called Meta Enterprise Platform, will take technology Meta built for its…
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OpenAI blocked its agent’s web access. Then it tunneled out through DNS.
The New Stack
Last week, OpenAI published new reports detailing misalignment issues with its agents. This time, two internal models found ways around security controls after intended paths were blocked. In one incident, an agent used DNS to bypass…
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Think you need a better reranker? Check your retrieval first.
The New Stack
You built a search system using the latest, greatest models , and maybe you were thrilled with the outcome. But what happens if the search results were… sort of… bad? Your first instinct might be to invest time and resources in a bigger…
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Elon Musk says space will soon hold nearly all compute. Google is still finding out if its chips can work there.
The New Stack
While SpaceX and Nvidia plan to place a space-optimized Vera Rubin AI system in orbit by late 2027 , Google’s far more modest plan, Project Suncatcher, is to launch a test satellite with Tensor Processing Units to see whether AI data…
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AWS Weekly Roundup: GPT-6 Sol and Luna, Claude Opus 5.5 on Amazon Bedrock, Strands harness, and more (September 28, 2026)
AWS News Blog
If there’s one theme that defined last week, it’s choice. The frontier models keep arriving, and the interesting question is no longer just “how smart is it?” but “which model fits this step, at this cost, at this latency?” That’s exactly…
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GPT-6 Sol vs. Claude Opus 5.5: Is cheaper important when results aren’t consistent?
The New Stack
OpenAI launched GPT-6 Sol on September 22 , claiming it scores higher than Claude Opus 5 on business workflow tasks at 9% of the cost per task. OpenAI’s marketing claims Sol scores 33.2% on Zapier’s AutomationBench, compared with Opus 5’s…
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Why your startup needs open models alongside frontier APIs
Google Cloud Blog
Every week, I talk with founders who are building at an unbelievable pace. Teams are moving from inception to product-market fit faster than ever, with foundation models wired deeply into their core product workflows. Yet as startup…
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Introducing Ask, a new Google Earth Engine feature to accelerate geospatial coding
Google Cloud Blog
Whether you are mapping global forest cover, detecting changes in the built environment, or monitoring agricultural yields, writing scripts in Google Earth Engine is a powerful way to develop these insights. This platform is part of Google…
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Enhancing Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine lifecycle
Azure Blog
Azure continuously advances through new infrastructure generations, platform capabilities, services, and innovations that lead the industry in performance, security, reliability, and efficiency. Our Virtual Machine (VM) Lifecycle policy…
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Enhancing Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine lifecycle
Azure Blog
Azure continuously advances through new infrastructure generations, platform capabilities, services, and innovations that lead the industry in performance, security, reliability, and efficiency. Our Virtual Machine (VM) Lifecycle policy…
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Next.js applications, powered by Vite: introducing Vinext 1.0
Cloudflare Blog
When we launched Vinext in February, it was the result of an audacious week-long AI-driven experiment to see how far one engineer, and a stack of tokens, could get to replicating the NextJS framework backed by Vite. In the seven months…
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Introducing cf: the agentic CLI for the entire Cloudflare API
Cloudflare Blog
Over the last year, agent use of Wrangler has skyrocketed. In March 2026, agents were responsible for a quarter of Wrangler use, up from single-digit percentages the year prior. Last week, agent usage reached 48%. Agents are more prolific…
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How fast is the web? Explore billions of real-user measurements with BEACON
Cloudflare Blog
If you work in technology, you’re probably reading this on a powerful laptop or flagship mobile on robust, lightning-fast Wi-Fi. This is fantastic for building software, but often is far removed from the reality facing many who are using…
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pgEdge’s new agent database branches never merge back into the source
The New Stack
AI coding agents can get an application running quickly, but taking that prototype into production is another problem. The database setup that works during development may not meet an organization’s security, compliance, or deployment…
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Anthropic bought Stainless and shuttered its SDK generator. Cloudflare open-sourced Forge instead.
The New Stack
Cloudflare has announced an open source tool that takes an API definition and automatically produces the SDKs, command-line tools, documentation, and other interfaces used to interact with it. Forge, as it’s called, is available under an…
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Introducing The Cold Start: pitch your startup live at Cloudflare Connect
Cloudflare Blog
Sixteen years ago, Cloudflare was one of more than 1,000 startups hoping for a spot on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt. We were not, on the face of it, an obvious choice. Cloudflare was infrastructure: we made websites faster and protected…
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Four months of VoidZero at Cloudflare: making the open-source JavaScript toolchain faster for all humans and agents
Cloudflare Blog
When VoidZero joined Cloudflare four months ago, we made a commitment to open source, promising that Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+ will stay open source, vendor-agnostic, and community-driven. As part of Cloudflare’s Birthday…
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The road to the agentic browser: A Kitesurf update
Cloudflare Blog
In August, we introduced Kitesurf, a browser for the agentic age that runs entirely on Cloudflare Workers. We built it around what agents need from the web, rather than carrying all the features and bloat of a browser designed for humans…
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EmDash 1.0: the stable CMS with a secure plugin registry
Cloudflare Blog
When we introduced EmDash on April 1 as the “spiritual successor to WordPress”, the buzz was hard to ignore. Walking around a WordPress conference that month, we couldn’t walk far without hearing murmurs about EmDash from fellow attendees…
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Supporting native Rust in Workers with the new Emscripten target for wasm-bindgen
Cloudflare Blog
Today we’re announcing the first public experimental preview of a feature to better support native Rust code and even Tokio-based applications just running natively on Workers: first-class support for the Emscripten…
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Introducing Forge: the open source pipeline for generating SDKs, CLIs, docs, and more
Cloudflare Blog
Today we’re introducing Forge , a fresh approach to generating SDKs, CLIs, docs, and libraries. Forge is an open source, pluggable generation pipeline that anyone can deploy and run for free. Forge is early in its life, but already…
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Nvidia launches Open Agent Safety Platform to lock down rogue AI agents
The New Stack
OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google have all recently disclosed that their models broke out of their test environments and reached real systems. Nvidia’s response, announced Monday, is a runtime that locks agents into kernel-enforced…
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Storage-optimized Z4D machine family, now GA, is designed for IO-intensive workloads
Google Cloud Blog
Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of our next-generation Storage-optimized Z4D machine series in Google Compute Engine with both Virtual Machine (VM) and bare-metal instances. We built Z4D for IO-intensive and…
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Travel’s AI dilemma at Skift Global Forum
Stripe Engineering
At the “great recalibration”-themed travel conference, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky called AI “an existential risk” to his company and “literally the best thing to ever happen” to it in the same discussion. That sums up many travel leaders’…