Cloud & Infrastructure
Cloud & Infrastructure news — Thursday 22 October 2026
20 stories from 6 sources, every one in English. Each links to its publisher.
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Single-tenant Titus: VM-level isolation on a multi-tenant container platform
Netflix Tech Blog
Samartha Chandrashekar & Nick Parker You click play on a Friday night, and in the second that follows, dozens of services answer in milliseconds. Most of them run on Titus, our internal container platform. Titus is, in essence, a…
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Expanding Claude availability and deployment choice on Google Cloud
Google Cloud Blog
Every organization has unique requirements for building and scaling generative AI. At Google Cloud, we are committed to giving developers model choice and architectural flexibility to run workloads however they need. Today, we’re…
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AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities is now generally available
AWS News Blog
Today, we’re announcing the general availability of AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities . AWS Continuum is a security service that finds and validates code vulnerabilities, then delivers fixes as patches you can automate or as pull…
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Five AI agent harnesses took the same memory test. The results weren’t even close.
The New Stack
AI agents are getting better at remembering past conversations and earlier tasks but remembering something doesn’t guarantee an agent can use it to do better work next time. Letta’s new FrontierMemory benchmark, released Wednesday, tests…
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Ramp built an AI agent harness in six weeks — and LangChain’s CEO says it’s part of a bigger shift
The New Stack
Ramp spent months testing managed agent APIs, open-source frameworks, and third-party platforms before concluding it would be better off building its own. The result is Laminar, an internal agent harness that took six weeks to reach a…
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OpenAI donates Open Responses, its spec for a common LLM API, to the Agentic AI Foundation
The New Stack
OpenAI on Thursday announced that it is donating the Open Responses API specification to the open source Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF). In addition to Open Responses, OpenSandbox , Anthropic’s Agent Skills , and HuggingFace’s OpenEv…
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Introducing new self-learning context enrichment in Knowledge Catalog
Google Cloud Blog
Today, we’re launching self-learning context enrichment (preview) and a reimagined Knowledge Studio experience (preview) in Knowledge Catalog , Google Cloud’s context engine for agents. Building on Knowledge Catalog's existing…
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OpenAI’s COBOL migration score has made a striking leap
The New Stack
This week, OpenAI put COBOL in the spotlight. It announced benchmark results suggesting its latest models are getting much better at migrating COBOL programs and building software in languages with less code and documentation for models to…
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Google and AWS open new paths for PyTorch beyond Nvidia
The New Stack
At PyTorch Conference North America 2026 this week, Google open-sourced TorchTPU , a native PyTorch stack for Google TPUs, now available on GitHub . AWS also launched TorchNeuron in public beta, its open-source native PyTorch backend for…
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AI found a critical PHP flaw. The bigger failure began in 2024.
The New Stack
Did one of your favorite websites go dark on Wednesday? Some did, as operators took services offline while they waited for fixes to two critical flaws in PHP , the language behind much of the web. The precaution didn’t mean those sites…
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Who on-calls an AI? This is the unresolved crisis of agent ownership
The New Stack
At 2:07 a.m., an AI agent starts failing. The application is still running, but requests are timing out because a downstream API is returning errors. The agent has already retried twice, using more tokens than usual, and its response time…
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PHP’s security scramble is just a preview: AI is digging up flaws faster than maintainers can fix them
The New Stack
One of the biggest security scares to hit the web is causing widespread disruption, prompting businesses, hospitals, schools, and government agencies to temporarily shut down websites and online services as they scramble to protect…
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DeepSeek V4.1-Flash-1017 vs. Claude Haiku 5.5: More accurate at a fraction of the price
The New Stack
DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash-1017 on October 17 as an update to i ts Flash model . Its change log says the update cuts task runtime and output length. It lists 11 benchmark scores, including 42.3 on Terminal-Bench 4.0. Developers can use…
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Single-tenant Titus: VM-level isolation on a multi-tenant container platform
Netflix Tech Blog
Samartha Chandrashekar & Nick Parker You click play on a Friday night, and in the second that follows, dozens of services answer in milliseconds. Most of them run on Titus, our internal container platform. Titus is, in essence, a…
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AI agent security is a lifecycle — not a gatekeeper
The New Stack
Enterprise security has traditionally operated on a relatively straightforward premise: establish identity, authenticate the requester, determine what that identity can access, and enforce those permissions. AI agents introduce a…
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Localizing compliance at scale: achieving South Korea’s ISMS certification
Cloudflare Blog
For ten days, auditors appointed by the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) sat together with us and worked through 80 controls. That is what it took for a company headquartered in the United States, operating a global network serving…
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Google turns the infrastructure behind Gemini’s agents into a cloud service
The New Stack
Google will soon make the infrastructure that powers its Gemini agents available to Google Cloud users in preview. Announced on Thursday at the Linux Foundation’s AGNTCon+MCPCon in San Jose, Agent Compute Engine will become available in…
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Inside Agent Compute Engine: Building the compute foundation for the agentic era
Google Cloud Blog
Every decade or so, a shift in software forces us to rethink computer architecture from first principles. After the first boom of web-scale traffic, Google pioneered warehouse-scale computing and Linux containers on Borg. This reshaped how…
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Introducing Agent Compute Engine and expanded agent governance
Google Cloud Blog
Blog authors: Nirav Mehta, VP Product Management; Michael Bachman, VP/GM; Kevin Hutchins, VP Product Management Scaling Gemini to planet scale taught us firsthand that securely running autonomous agents is fundamentally an infrastructure…
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Trends from Money20/20 2026: The rise of “hidden” financial services
Stripe Engineering
As fintech products become increasingly capable, the infrastructure behind them fades into the background. Three trends from Money20/20 show how stablecoins, agents, and always-on money are changing financial services.