Cloud & Infrastructure
Cloud & Infrastructure news — Tuesday 13 October 2026
15 stories from 6 sources, every one in English. Each links to its publisher.
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Anthropic’s red team ran AI on 15 cheap TV boxes. Then the math got unsettling.
The New Stack
For roughly $825, Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team built a cluster of 15 off-brand Android TV boxes that runs an AI model at 0.39 tokens per second, painfully slow for a chatbot but fine for software with nowhere to be and nobody waiting on…
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Under the hood, off the hot path: how D1 scales to millions of databases
Cloudflare Blog
Traditional database architecture assumes you have one or two big database clusters per application, usually accompanied by a connection pooling solution. AI-assisted development and vibe coding platforms turn this model inside out and are…
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Infrastructure for the frontier era: Scaling intelligence through open industry collaboration
Azure Blog
At Microsoft, our vision is to build a Frontier Firm : one where people and technology work together, combining human expertise, context, and judgment with technology that can extend intelligence throughout everyday work. The potential is…
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Advancing hardware security with open-source Integrated HSM technology
Azure Blog
At this year’s OCP Global Summit , Microsoft announced Project Tessera, the evolution of the Azure Integrated Hardware Security Module (HSM), into a fully open-source initiative developed in collaboration with Marvell®, Oracle, and Open…
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Gemini 4 Argon available on Google Cloud, built to help solve your business’ hardest problems
Google Cloud Blog
Last week we announced that Gemini Enterprise has evolved to make it even simpler to get work done, and introduced the Gemini agent , your new universal agent for work. It's always on and ready to answer your questions. It will write code…
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Cross-cloud conversational analytics made simple with open standards
Google Cloud Blog
The reality for most organizations is that data lives everywhere. As engineering teams expand and adopt specialized platforms for their workloads, enterprise data naturally disperses across multiple clouds and operational systems. When…
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Gemini 4 Argon debuts with a unified 1M input/output token limit
The New Stack
On Tuesday, Google made Gemini 4 Argon , the company’s new flagship model, available to developers on the paid tier of the Gemini API through Google AI Studio, as well as in several of the company’s other developer and consumer tools…
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AWS Weekly Roundup: Prime Day 2026 by the numbers, Claude Haiku 5.5, Amazon Nova 2.5 Sonic, and more (October 13, 2026)
AWS News Blog
Some numbers are hard to picture until you sit with them for a moment. Last week we published the Prime Day 2026 metrics, and the one that stuck with me is 2.3 quadrillion: the daily requests Amazon ElastiCache peaked at during the event…
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Rewinding the exponential: How we keep hardware usage down
Cloudflare Blog
More than 20% of the web sits behind Cloudflare’s network, and our team, the Data team, owns the data pipeline responsible for plumbing that data (and more) from our global network to applicable central data centers. The Cloudflare network…
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The agent did the work. The audit log couldn’t say who asked.
The New Stack
More than 20 percent of the MCP-related access policies that Shawn Petty’s team reviewed across customer and prospect environments were broken or missing, according to a recent account published in The New Stack . In most cases, the MCP…
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Workday is using TypeSafe’s Jev to build user interfaces on the fly
The New Stack
Workday on Tuesday made Sana, its AI assistant, the new home screen for its HR, finance, and IT software. If you’re not an HR pro, that may not be all that exciting for you, but the way the team built this is maybe one of the most…
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Workday goes headless, opening its HR and finance data to outside AI agents
The New Stack
Workday is opening up its platform and allowing developers to build their own HR and finance agents in Claude Code, Cursor, and other tools, as long as those agents follow the same rules as the people using them. On Tuesday, at its Workday…
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The X Subscription bundles Cursor with Grok and X Premium. But Claude now costs extra.
The New Stack
Elon Musk’s mission to unify his sprawling tech empire continues apace, with the news that X, Grok, and Cursor are being bundled together as a single plan dubbed The X Subscription . Taking to X late on Monday, SpaceXAI announced the new…
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One Agent Development Kit, five languages
Google Cloud Blog
When we talk about agents, that doesn't necessarily mean we're talking about Python. In today's modern ecosystem, an agent might run as a high-concurrency Go microservice on Cloud Run , or live inside a browser tab calling Chrome's…
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The “alien” economics of AI monetization
Stripe Engineering
As usage, costs, and customer expectations change, AI companies are moving beyond traditional SaaS pricing. Leaders at Monetize 2026 shared how they’re combining subscriptions with usage-based billing, building spend controls into…