Cloud & Infrastructure
Cloud & Infrastructure news — Thursday 08 October 2026
18 stories from 3 sources, every one in English. Each links to its publisher.
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Harness bought Augment’s coding agents. The best feature hasn’t shipped yet.
The New Stack
Harness announced Thursday that it acquired Augment Code’s Cosmos software factory, Auggie CLI and Code Context Engine, along with the team behind them, for an undisclosed amount. The deal adds autonomous coding agents to Harness’s…
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Claude can now build your dashboards
The New Stack
A month after OpenAI gave ChatGPT Work a data agent that builds dashboards, Anthropic on Thursday shipped its own version. Claude Dashboards , now in beta, lets users build live dashboards to see the exact queries pulling the data and…
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GitHub Copilot is going local — but Microsoft won’t say what gets sent to the cloud
The New Stack
GitHub Copilot will soon decide whether coding tasks run locally or get sent to cloud models , with automatic routing expected by the end of October. Microsoft outlined the plan Wednesday in a post co-written by Patrick Nikoletich , a…
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You can outgrow vanilla Postgres without abandoning Postgres
The New Stack
For many data aficionados, Postgres is the way to store and manage relational data. It’s efficient, it’s straightforward, and it plays nice with other tools. But even Postgres has its limits. When you’re working with a relentless stream of…
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Most AI incident tools still leave a key decision to humans
The New Stack
An AI SRE agent can help troubleshoot an incident. But can you trust it to decide on its own when something needs attention? Most teams treat agent autonomy as a yes or no question. For incident response, it is a progression with three…
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Your AI agent just provisioned a resource. Who owns it?
The New Stack
The environment has thirty-four resources, including a VPC, subnets, an RDS instance, and a load balancer that hasn’t seen any traffic in weeks. The owner tag reads deploy-agent. Nobody typed that in; it was auto-populated because the…
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The audit log says my name: what an agent inherits when you hand it your credentials
The New Stack
I measured what an AI agent actually holds when it authenticates as me. Authentication turned out to be a token whose scope string literally says user_impersonation . Authorization came almost entirely from group membership that standard…
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AI data lakes are driving new storage demands
The New Stack
The frenetic pace of AI development is challenging data center design and operational paradigms. The twin pillars of hyperscale computing – intelligent processors and the memory that feeds them – are no exception. Hyperscale operators have…
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The API tax: Why AI agents stall without infrastructure context
The New Stack
Enterprises continue to face an autonomous cloud bottleneck that breaks autonomous operations and leads to failure. This architectural flaw leaves AI agents without complete cross-domain context, including Infrastructure as Code (IaC)…
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Bridging technical depth and usability: The story behind Radar’s redesign
Cloudflare Blog
Radar provides a real-time view into global Internet trends, powered by Cloudflare’s global network. We support Cloudflare’s mission to help build a better Internet by making web data visible, clear, and actionable for everyone. Since…
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AI changed how you respond to incidents. Your tabletops haven’t caught up.
The New Stack
Tabletop exercises answer one question: when something breaks, will the people responsible for fixing it do the right thing, in the right order, fast enough? For years, the answer depended almost entirely on humans: their training…
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Google Public Sector and SUNY launch AI-enabled platform to accelerate university research
Google Cloud Blog
Public research universities solve some of society’s most urgent challenges, but turning ideas into breakthroughs requires fast, secure access to cutting edge technology. In the agentic AI era institutions have an unprecedented opportunity…
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Innovation in Ireland: How Irish brands scale with Gemini Enterprise
Google Cloud Blog
In recent decades, Ireland has grown into a vibrant hub for global technology. As modernization accelerates, Irish organizations — spanning government agencies, established enterprise brands, and growing startups in AI and other areas …
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Empowering SMBs to do more with Gemini
Google Cloud Blog
Today, we announced the new Gemini agent, your single, universal agent for work. For small and midsize businesses, with lean teams and margins, Gemini will be a critical tool for you to operate efficiently, deliver excellent customer…
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Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs. Opus 5.5: 42% cheaper and perfect on every run
The New Stack
Anthropic launched Sonnet 5.5 six days after Opus 5.5 . The company says it scores 70.6% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, ahead of Opus 5.5’s 66.4% at xhigh effort. It also says Sonnet 5.5 generates output more than 30% faster than Sonnet 5 and uses…
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Welcome to Gemini at Work 2026: Introducing the Gemini agent
Google Cloud Blog
Editor’s note: This article is adapted from Thomas Kurian’s keynote address at Gemini at Work 2026. It includes a number of announcements: Gemini , a single, universal agent for work that answers your questions, handles your knowledge…
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Building scalable, agent-friendly APIs for AI applications
The New Stack
Nowadays, most of us interact with frontier AI models in a structured way, even if we do not always think about it that way. Most systems already sit on top of a protocol, often created by the model providers themselves. OpenAI and…
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Redis by proxy: Percona targets the last major hurdle to Valkey adoption
The New Stack
When Redis changed its licensing in 2024, replacing its permissive BSD license with proprietary, source-available alternatives, it prompted a major split in the community. Within days, the Linux Foundation launched Valkey , an open source…