Cloud & Infrastructure
Cloud & Infrastructure news — Wednesday 28 October 2026
15 stories from 3 sources, every one in English. Each links to its publisher.
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Google just handed its rivals the keys to Android
The New Stack
Google is giving coding agents like Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex deeper access to its Android development tools, including devices, performance profilers and production crash reports; now, agents can now investigate bugs…
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Introducing the Microsoft Copilot harness in Foundry Agent Service
Azure Blog
A model can reason about a task. Completing that task takes more: the right context, tools, execution environment, and controls, and an agent loop that brings them together. Microsoft’s unified harness strategy brings a shared execution…
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GitHub debuts Copilot Fusion, a new model selection ＆ orchestration system that beats Claude Code for half the API cost
The New Stack
GitHub has debuted GitHub Copilot Fusion , a new system that handles model selection and orchestration for coding tasks so developers don’t have to. Combining the advanced runtime model orchestration from Project HydraFusion with Copilot…
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GitHub saw 7.4B commits in September, adding 4M CPU cores and 160 PB of storage to keep up
The New Stack
GitHub is seeing unprecedented demand and is updating its core infrastructure to keep pace. In August, GitHub said it was seeing 2.9 billion commits per month , up from 1.4 billion in April. At its GitHub Universe conference on Wednesday…
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How to upgrade embedding models in AlloyDB AI with zero downtime
Google Cloud Blog
Imagine you've just launched a new semantic search feature for product reviews to help customers quickly research products on your site. Users love it. But the next day, you see an announcement for a new vector embedding model promising…
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Introducing the AlloyDB Omni web UI for easier cluster observability
Google Cloud Blog
Managing PostgreSQL databases across on-premises, edge, and multi-cloud environments often forces administrators to rely on command-line tools, making it hard to see cluster health and quickly diagnose issues. To solve this, we are…
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Behind the scenes, two months later: How we ship Google Agent Skills like products
Google Cloud Blog
In my previous post, I took you behind the scenes of Google Agent Skills , covering how the project started, how we maintain quality at scale, and how we handle governance. In this post, I'll share what we've built since then: the…
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Near-zero downtime upgrades: Announcing Cloud SQL for MySQL blue-green deployments
Google Cloud Blog
Keeping production databases on supported versions shouldn’t require giving up your weekend. To stay secure, compliant, and with the best performance and newest AI capabilities, organizations need to run on the latest database engine…
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How GKE networking scales to support high densities of concurrent AI agents
Google Cloud Blog
What do you need to orchestrate high-density concurrent AI agents? As we transition from static requests toward autonomous agentic workflows, the need for secure, high-density sandboxes is pushing conventional infrastructure far beyond its…
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How to troubleshoot GKE workloads faster with VPC Flow Logs
Google Cloud Blog
Having visibility into your network traffic is essential to operating Kubernetes environments effectively. When a service slows down or loses connectivity, knowing who is talking to whom lets you narrow the problem down quickly. In a…
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Nvidia launches a promptable transcription model
The New Stack
Nvidia on Wednesday launched Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, its latest multilingual transcription model. The new open-weight model, the company says, ranks first on Hugging Face’s Open ASR open model leaderboard for English, with an average word…
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Step into a new dimension with XREAL AURA, the first-of-its-kind wired XR glasses
Google Cloud Blog
The world of work is rapidly evolving, and with it, the tools we use to stay productive and connected. As AI adoption transforms daily workflows, form factors like XR headsets and glasses offer fresh ways to reimagine how productive work…
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What happens when the agent is long gone, but its access key lives on?
The New Stack
Imagine: There’s a line on the credential report that no one on the platform team can explain. An IAM user called research-agent-2 has an access key created 14 months ago that was last used 11 months ago. And it’s still active. The project…
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AI agents need to be replaceable – without losing your work
The New Stack
An agent receives approval to process a partial refund. It sends the request to a payment API, and the process crashes. Maybe the payment service completed the refund. Maybe the request never went through. A replacement agent spins up and…
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From human clicks to agentic velocity: What OpenAI’s 1.2 billion scale means for your auth
The New Stack
When OpenAI announced at DevDay that ChatGPT had crossed 1.2 billion weekly active users (WAUs), roughly 15% of the human population, most engineering discussions naturally centered on model context windows, compute clusters, and…