Cloud & Infrastructure
Cloud & Infrastructure news — Monday 02 November 2026
11 stories from 5 sources, every one in English. Each links to its publisher.
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Developers are downgrading their AI on purpose — and it’s working
The New Stack
Anthropic has confirmed that it added new restrictions to Claude Code to prevent users from recreating existing video games. But developers say Claude Opus 5.5 is also refusing reverse-engineering and software-analysis tasks it previously…
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The Platform Behind the Next AI Breakthrough
Azure Blog
This article has been written and paid for by Microsoft. The content is not WIRED editorial content. The content does not necessarily reflect the views of WIRED, its affiliates, or owner, and does not reflect any endorsement direct or…
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Your AI coding agent now runs on a budget — and it can cut you off mid-task
The New Stack
The days of pointing an AI agent at a backlog and letting it burn through compute without much oversight may be coming to an end. Cognition is introducing hierarchical budgets for Devin so enterprises can manage AI coding agent spending…
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Canva’s new design model doesn’t generate images. It writes code to edit them.
The New Stack
Australian graphic design software company Canva took the wraps off Canva Brush last week, its new vision-language model for designers. Brush is an editing model rather than an image generator: a vision-language model that understands the…
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Google Cloud Developer plugin now available in Antigravity Marketplace
Google Cloud Blog
Building cloud solutions with autonomous AI agents should feel fast, safe, and reliable. Without cloud-specific context, coding agents often struggle. They might invent deprecated SDK syntax, guess invalid command flags, or attempt…
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Beyond Migration: Using Database Migration Service for disk shrinking
Google Cloud Blog
When database engineers hear “database migration", they typically think of a one-time onboarding pathway—moving databases from on-premises environments to the cloud, or between different cloud providers. However, Google Cloud's Database…
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AWS Weekly Roundup: GPT-6.1 Terra on Bedrock, Step Functions as agent tools, and more (November 2, 2026)
AWS News Blog
The agentic launches that stayed with me last week had nothing to do with how capable a model is. They were about reach. AWS Step Functions , which already orchestrates over 220 AWS services, can now be handed to an agent as a tool, so…
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OpenAI’s new shared usage limit pits ChatGPT against Codex
The New Stack
OpenAI has revealed plans to combine usage allowances across ChatGPT and Codex, as part of a broader effort to integrate its conversational AI and agentic capabilities into a single experience. In a help article quietly published over the…
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Shutting the Door on the XCPE Botnet
Google Cloud Blog
Introduction Last week, Google and industry partners dismantled the XCPE backdoor which enrolled more than 1.3 million set-top boxes into a botnet. We assess with high confidence that the backdoor and botnet were intentionally developed…
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The Rise of LLMJacking: How Threat Actors Monetize Compromised Cloud and Model Resources
Google Cloud Blog
Written by: Christopher Romano, Codi Starks, Garrett Mahoney, John Wolfram, Josh Murchie, K Singh, Mathew Potaczek, Mike Lombardi, Rik Dolfing Introduction Mandiant responded to multiple incidents in 2026 in which threat actors hijacked…
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How we halved DNS build delay and cut memory use by 85%
Cloudflare Blog
When I last wrote about our DNS propagation pipeline in 2022 , the Zone Builder received about 250 DNS record changes per second. Today it receives about 700, nearly three times as many, plus about 100 other events, such as zone setting…