Cloud & Infrastructure
Cloud & Infrastructure news — Friday 02 October 2026
18 stories from 3 sources, every one in English. Each links to its publisher.
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AI21 achieves an 83% reduction in time-to-start for AI workloads with AI Hypercomputer
Google Cloud Blog
Editor’s note : AI21 Labs is a leading global AI lab with a long track record of building foundation models, most notably the Jamba family, and today focuses on specialized LLMs and agent optimization technology. By adopting Google Cloud…
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GitHub’s advice for its new Copilot feature is to try something else first
The New Stack
GitHub launched computer use in public preview on Thursday , giving Copilot CLI and its desktop app the ability to operate applications on macOS and Windows. Agents can read app content and click, type, scroll, and drag, including in…
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What Kubernetes’ “monolith” lesson means for AI agent harnesses
The New Stack
Welcome to another edition of Road to KubeCon , your source for everything Kubernetes and cloud-native as we count down the days to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA , happening November 9-12 in Salt Lake City, Utah. This week, we take a look at…
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Streamline: custom video pipelines with Cloudflare Stream and Workers
Cloudflare Blog
Cloudflare Stream is a powerful broadcasting platform that, for many of our customers, just works. But what if you wanted to render dynamic annotations on a livestream or create an alternate version of a hosted video with burned-in…
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GKE CPU startup boost: Accelerate app starts without over-provisioning
Google Cloud Blog
Whether you’re launching microservices in response to sudden traffic spikes, deploying new software releases, or scaling up application replicas, pod startup time is critical to maintaining a fast, responsive user experience for…
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Announcing Spanner queues: Transactional messaging for agentic workloads and beyond
Google Cloud Blog
AI agents don't just answer queries — they can autonomously issue refunds, manage inventory, execute multi-step handoffs, and orchestrate sub-agents, to name but a few complex agentic workflows. That frequently requires the agents to…
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“No reason why everyone should have an identical Claude experience”: Anthropic’s mods let you change Claude Code’s look and behavior
The New Stack
Developers have long been able to customize Claude Code to their preferences, via settings , persistent instructions in CLAUDE.md , hooks , and MCP servers , alongside tweaks such as status lines and output styles . Those controls can…
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Introducing Web Search API via AI Gateway
Cloudflare Blog
Fun fact: when you use an agent and it needs to fetch a live web page, the agent usually just guesses the URL of the page and then makes a tool call to curl it. This is why you’ll sometimes see web fetches come back with a 404 Not Found…
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2026 Birthday week: network performance update
Cloudflare Blog
Cloudflare is now the fastest provider in 74% of the 1,000 largest networks around the world, up from 60% in April 2026. This huge improvement matters because every millisecond affects how quickly users can reach the applications, APIs…
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Building for good: How civil society organizations are automating on Cloudflare
Cloudflare Blog
Tracking how governments target dissidents living in exile. Helping people in crisis find mental health support. Advocating for legislation that protects free expression online. These are a few examples of how some of the world's leading…
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Protected Quick Tunnels: simple accountless authentication for your next dev project
Cloudflare Blog
We launched Quick Tunnels in 2021 to give developers an easy way to share their latest service, application, or project running in their local development environment. A lot has changed since then, but the core use case remains the same…
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Follow the thread: a new dashboard to investigate account abuse
Cloudflare Blog
Traditionally, preventing online fraud relied on point-in-time proof of identity: enter the correct password, complete a biometric verification, or pass a liveness check, and gain access. To defeat these controls, fraudsters had to steal…
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Announcing Cloudflare OHTTP Gateway – expanding access to Cloudflare’s privacy-preserving infrastructure
Cloudflare Blog
Today, end users carry too much of the burden of online privacy. To avoid third-party trackers or targeted ads, users are instructed to use a VPN, disable cookies, or install adblockers. Meanwhile, some app developers end up knowing more…
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K3s vs. K8s: When lightweight Kubernetes distros win (and when they don’t)
The New Stack
The Kubernetes ecosystem has a complexity problem, and most teams already know it. Standard Kubernetes (K8s) is extraordinarily powerful, but that power comes with operational weight. Deploying and maintaining a production-ready cluster…
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Updates on our pledge to make Cloudflare features accessible to everyone
Cloudflare Blog
A year ago, Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht announced our intention to make every Cloudflare feature available to everyone . Cloudflare launched an Enterprise tier years ago when larger customers came to us looking for procurement options…
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Introducing Cloudflare Traces: follow requests through our entire platform
Cloudflare Blog
Today, we’re introducing Cloudflare Traces in open beta, extending automatic tracing beyond Workers to the rest of the request path. In one trace, you can see supported security rules, transformations, cache decisions, routing, Worker…
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8 major updates to Cloudflare Observability
Cloudflare Blog
Today, we’re launching eight major updates that bring your logs, traces, analytics, alerts, dashboards, and exporting into one observability platform , with simpler and more predictable pricing. Here's what's launching: One place to…
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How to implement long-term AI agent memory in AlloyDB and Memorystore for Valkey
Google Cloud Blog
Enterprise AI agents need persistent memory to execute complex, multi-day workflows and long-horizon tasks. In this blog, we examine how a 2-tier memory architecture using Memorystore for Valkey for short-term buffer memory and AlloyDB AI…