Cloud & Infrastructure
Cloud & Infrastructure news — Tuesday 29 September 2026
28 stories from 6 sources, every one in English. Each links to its publisher.
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Why Featherless says you don’t need a tank to deliver a pizza
The New Stack
The debate over what size, shape, and scale of model best suits each task isn’t going away any time soon. Joining the fray now is serverless inference provider Featherless . The company has released Simple Jev , an open-source library that…
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OpenAI makes ‘Sign in with ChatGPT’ a way to use your subscription in third-party developer tools
The New Stack
OpenAI has announced that it’s making it easier for ChatGPT subscribers to use their allowance inside third-party AI and coding platforms such as Amp , Devin , Lovable , and OpenClaw , alongside broader developer and productivity platforms…
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OpenAI answers TypeSafe’s Jev with a Decision API built on Luna
The New Stack
With the sudden rise of TypeSafe’s Jev , decision models have become incredibly popular, so it’s not surprising that OpenAI is also announcing its take on this model type at its annual DevDay conference on Tuesday. The company’s new…
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OpenAI’s new GPT-6.1 Sol undercuts its own Astra flagship
The New Stack
OpenAI on Tuesday launched GPT-6.1 Sol , the newest version of its workhorse model, only a week after launching GPT-6 Sol . The company describes the new model as “an upgrade to GPT-6 Sol that nearly matches GPT-6 Astra’s intelligence on…
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OpenAI halves $200 plan allowance, launches $500 plan
The New Stack
On Tuesday, OpenAI introduced a new $ 500-per-month Pro plan that gives subscribers the highest included usage of the company’s subscription plans. The new plan includes 25x the usage allowance of ChatGPT Plus and provides access to its…
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OpenAI just launched Dots. Here’s why they matter for developers.
The New Stack
At its DevDay event on Tuesday, OpenAI introduced Dots : persistent agents built on GPT-6 Astra that run on their own cloud computers, use their own browsers, and can reach more than 4,000 apps through OpenAI’s plugin ecosystem. Unlike…
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Accelerating agentic RL and evaluation research velocity with 45x faster GKE Agent Sandbox
Google Cloud Blog
When scaling up agentic reinforcement learning (RL) and evaluation across massive parallel rollouts, frontier AI labs inevitably hit a bottleneck: Expensive GPU clusters sit idle, waiting minutes for CPU sandbox cold-starts, plus thousands…
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SQL Server on Azure Local is now generally available
Azure Blog
Some of the world’s most critical databases run in places where cloud connectivity cannot be assumed. A remote industrial site, for example, may need production systems to continue operating when external connectivity is unavailable. A…
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Graph Workflows in ADK: Everything You Need to Know
Google Cloud Blog
Graph engineering is the design work: breaking a task into nodes, connecting them with edges, and deciding where code, models, or people control the next step. The Agent Development Kit (ADK) 's Workflow turns that design into an…
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Google Cloud partners deliver new security agents and AI defenses with Gemini Enterprise
Google Cloud Blog
As threat actors increasingly use AI to accelerate and develop cyberattacks, enterprise defenders need to rely on both AI and a critical defender’s advantage: Business context that only you possess. Enterprise cyber defense spans identity…
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Claude Opus 5.5 vs. Fable 5.1: One overthinks, the other cuts corners
The New Stack
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on September 22, saying it performs at the level of Claude Fable 5.1 on most work. At list price, it costs well under half as much per token. It leads Fable 5.1 on Terminal-Bench 4.0, FrontierCode, and…
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How to reassign resource ownership before someone’s last day
The New Stack
The objective of this article is to provide a strategy to catch resource ownership going stale the moment it happens, whether someone left the company or just changed teams, instead of finding out during the next security review. “Last…
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Defending at machine speed: Securing the public sector in the agentic era
Google Cloud Blog
Over the last three decades in cybersecurity, I’ve witnessed major paradigm shifts — yet none match the velocity and complexity of today’s landscape. Attackers are now using AI to move at machine speed: accelerating intrusions, exploiting…
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MCP gets AI agents into your APIs. It doesn’t decide what they should see.
The New Stack
Suppose someone on your operations team wants to ask their AI assistant : “Which orders are going to miss today’s shipping cutoff? Check inventory at the other warehouses and create transfer requests where we can cover the shortages.” That…
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Enforce positive security with Cloudflare Application Profiles
Cloudflare Blog
Today, we are launching Application Profiles, a seamless way to enforce a positive security policy. By analyzing the structure and format of HTTP requests and identifying deviations, Cloudflare can help you significantly reduce the attack…
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We tested our own WAF with frontier AI models. Here’s what we found
Cloudflare Blog
“Is your WAF ready for frontier AI models?” We keep hearing this question from our customers, so we decided to find out. When it comes to exploiting applications, what LLMs are really good at is iterating and mutating attack payloads…
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Is your domain using post-quantum encryption? Now you can see for yourself
Cloudflare Blog
Today, we are introducing additional post-quantum (PQ) cryptography visibility tools into Cloudflare's Application Security and Logs products. You can now inspect and graph the adoption of post-quantum TLS 1.3 encryption for live traffic…
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Using AI to chart a course for our post-quantum migration
Cloudflare Blog
As laboratories around the world race to build out a cryptographically relevant quantum computer , we at Cloudflare are racing towards a 2029 target deadline for full post-quantum readiness . While we’ve already transitioned many of our…
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Evolving our calendar assistant Reclaim to be AI-native without starting over
Dropbox Tech Blog
Calendars hold more than just blocks of time. They reflect how people plan their days, coordinate with others, and make room for what matters to them. Reclaim , the Dropbox-owned calendar assistant , helps manage that complexity by using…
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Introducing Threat Signals: agentic skills for open-source threat intelligence, free for every Cloudflare account
Cloudflare Blog
Organizations can now scale threat intelligence expertise the way they scale infrastructure. Threat intelligence analysts and network defenders have long automated the ingestion of structured threat feeds to help enrich their SIEM or WAF…
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Adaptive application security for the AI era: how Cloudflare connects code, traffic, and intelligence to stop attacks
Cloudflare Blog
In July, AI agents testing new cybersecurity models compromised parts of OpenAI’s infrastructure and Hugging Face’s production environment. We've all just witnessed one of the first AI-driven successful cyber attacks. When given a task…
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Building a post-quantum certificate authority with Merkle Tree Certificates
Cloudflare Blog
When you type in an address into a browser, how do you know you’re connecting to the right website? The Web Public Key Infrastructure (Web PKI) is the complex and distributed ecosystem of policies, protocols, and infrastructure operators…
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Building a certificate authority for the whole Internet
Cloudflare Blog
Twelve years ago, during Birthday Week 2014, we turned on Universal SSL and nearly doubled the number of encrypted sites on the web overnight, giving free TLS to every site behind Cloudflare, including the ones that never paid us a cent…
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Preventing quantum downgrade attacks against IPsec
Cloudflare Blog
For Birthday Week, Cloudflare is helping one of the Internet’s core security protocols develop stronger protections against quantum downgrade attacks. To protect our customers and the Internet at large, we worked with the IETF to develop a…
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Ember-1 vs. Kimi K3: Nearly identical results at 3.4 times the speed
The New Stack
Fireworks Research launched Ember-1 on September 23 as a research preview. Built on Moonshot’s open-weight model , Kimi K3 , it claims it matches Kimi K3’s quality using roughly 40% fewer tokens. Fireworks says it “learned to cut…
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FabCon and SQLCon 2026 in Barcelona: Building the data foundation for Microsoft Copilot and agents
Azure Blog
In this article Enabling Frontier Transformation with Microsoft Copilot and Microsoft Fabric The next evolution of Power BI: Agentic app creation <a…
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Defending Against Active Exploitation of Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway Appliances
Google Cloud Blog
Introduction In late September 2026, Mandiant Consulting and Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) identified active, in-the-wild exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2026-88772) affecting Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler…
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Helping personal agents shop more intelligently and reliably with Link
Stripe Engineering
As agents take on more purchases, agent builders have increasingly asked us to help agents navigate checkout and earn consumer trust. Today, we’re sharing three major improvements to support this broader set of needs.