Nvidia's GeForce Now gets an RTX 5080 upgrade — Ultimate subscribers now get Blackwell benefits in the cloud
tomshardware - Nvidia is upgrading its GeForce Now service at Gamescom with new RTX 5080-powered instances for Ultimate subscribers, plus a range of other improvements.
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Atlas AI Partners With Google Cloud on AI-Native Game Development Platform
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Startup Atlas AI launches its AI-native game development platform on Google Cloud, using multi-agent AI to accelerate 3D asset creation for developers by 200x.The post Atlas AI Partners With Google Cloud on AI-Native Game Development Platform appeared fir…
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Microsoft Lens App for iOS, Android to Shut Down Next Month
Usman Qureshi / iphoneincanada - Microsoft has today confirmed that it will retire the Microsoft Lens mobile app for both iOS and Android, starting in mid‑September 2025.The post Microsoft Lens App for iOS, Android to Shut Down Next Month first appeared on iPhone in Canada.
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Google Unleashes Flurry of New AI Agents, Launching GitHub Teammate and New Data Cloud Workforce
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Google launches Gemini CLI GitHub Actions, a free AI coding teammate, and a new suite of specialized data agents to accelerate its 'agentic enterprise' strategy.The post Google Unleashes Flurry of New AI Agents, Launching GitHub Teammate and New Data Clou…
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Cloudflare accuses Perplexity of secretly crawling sites despite explicit blocks
Maximilian Schreiner / the-decoder - Cloudflare is accusing the AI search engine Perplexity of covertly crawling websites, even when site owners have explicitly forbidden access through robots.txt files or firewall rules. According to the company, Perplexity disguises its identity to sideste…
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Google's New AI Agents Will Make Cloud Apps Smarter And Faster
bgr - At Google Cloud Next Tokyo 2025 this week, Google unveiled new AI agents that aim to help developers make their apps better, faster, and stronger.
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OpenAI Releases Lower-Cost Models to Rival DeepSeek, Meta, Mistral
Jon Swartz / techstrong - OpenAI on Tuesday released two text-only models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, as lower-cost options for developers, researchers, companies, and governments. The open-weight language models, the first from OpenAI since it introduced GPT-2 in 2019, comes a…
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Google now allows utilities to ask for a slowdown of non-essential AI workloads
Maximilian Schreiner / the-decoder - Google is now letting utilities like Indiana Michigan Power (I&M) and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) request a slowdown of non-essential AI workloads during periods of grid stress.The article Google now allows utilities to ask for a slowdown of non-…
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Amazon Posts Higher Sales, Profit
Sean McLain / wsj - The sales and profit results beat Wall Street’s expectations.
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UK Regulator Says AWS and Microsoft Harm Cloud Competition, Recommends Formal Probe
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) finds AWS and Microsoft harm cloud competition, recommending a formal probe under new digital market laws.The post UK Regulator Says AWS and Microsoft Harm Cloud Competition, Recommends Formal Probe appeare…
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Microsoft earnings highlight surging cloud and AI strength
Microsoft’s quarterly earnings report celebrated impressive Azure and cloud performance, igniting a rally in its share price. The robust figures, underscored by strong growth in AI and cloud services, position the tech giant as a dominant force in an increasingly competitive digital landscape.
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Microsoft Admits It Cannot Guarantee EU Cloud Data Sovereignty from US Government
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - A Microsoft executive admitted under oath that the company cannot guarantee EU data is safe from US government access due to the CLOUD Act, undermining 'sovereign cloud' promises.The post Microsoft Admits It Cannot Guarantee EU Cloud Data Sovereignty from…
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AWS closes China AI research center, citing boilerplate 'business priorities'
Simon Sharwood / theregister - Nvidia's Jensen Huang just had a win with his argument that the world needs China’s AI brains, now this Amazon Web Services has closed its AI lab in Shanghai, China.…
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Alphabet Revises CapEx Outlook with Rising Cloud Profits
Alphabet has upped its capital expenditure forecast to $85 billion amid robust cloud profit growth. This upward revision has been well received by investors, providing fresh optimism about the company’s strategic focus on expanding its cloud business and overall market resilience.
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US Power Grid Struggles Under Data Center Boom Demands
A major watchdog report warns that America’s largest power grid is at its breaking point as surging data center construction puts unprecedented strain on aging electrical infrastructure. The stark reality of limited capacity has experts raising skeptical brows at plans that hinge on ever-greater power consumption.
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OpenAI partners with Oracle to built out 4.5 gigawatts in data center capacity
Andre Revilla / engadget - OpenAI has struck a deal with Oracle to add an astounding 4.5 gigawatts of US data center capacity to power the massive workload required by its large language models. The companies haven't specified where these new centers will be built, but Bloomberg is…
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Xbox cloud games will soon follow you across Xbox, PC, and Windows handhelds
Tom Warren / theverge - Microsoft is starting to test updates to the Xbox PC app and Xbox consoles that will allow cloud games to follow you across devices. A new play history section of the Xbox PC app and Xbox console home UI will display cloud games as part of the recently pl…
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Vibe coding dream turns to nightmare as Replit deletes developer's database
techspot - Jason Lemkin, founder of the SaaS-focused community SaaStr, initially had a positive experience with Replit but quickly changed his mind when the service started acting like a digital psycho. Replit presents itself as a platform trusted by Fortune 500 com…
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Microsoft stops relying on Chinese engineers for Pentagon cloud support
cnbc - The change follows a ProPublica report that outlined how Microsoft's use of Chinese engineers left U.S. defense clients vulnerable to cybersecurity risks.
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Is Google Still Down? What We Know About the Gmail, Workspace and Drive Outage
Katie Collins / cnet - It appears Google has resolved the incident that caused a short-lived, but widespread outage.
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