All news with #product launch tag

🗣️ Looker Embedded now offers conversational analytics through the generally available Conversational Analytics API, enabling natural-language querying and AI recommendations inside customer-facing applications. The capability can be deployed via a low-code iframe or integrated SDKs and supports multi-Explore queries, a built-in code interpreter, and customizable theming for private-labeled experiences. Grounded in Looker’s governed semantic layer, it surfaces verifiable SQL to reduce hallucinations and accelerate developer extensibility and data monetization.

🚀 The new AWS IoT Greengrass Component SDK delivers a compact, high-performance runtime for edge devices, reducing component memory footprints to under 0.5MB compared with roughly 30MB. It provides native C, C++, and Rust bindings while maintaining compatibility with both the Greengrass nucleus and nucleus lite. Targeted at resource-constrained industries such as automotive, industrial IoT, robotics, and smart buildings, the SDK enables more complex AI/ML workloads at the edge and is available in all AWS Regions where Greengrass is offered.

🚀 Google Cloud has launched Veo 3.1 Lite, a cost‑effective video generation model available now on Vertex AI, and introduced a new standalone Veo upscaling capability currently in private preview. The Veo 3.1 family now includes three tiers—Veo 3.1, Veo 3.1 Fast, and Veo 3.1 Lite—all with native audio generation. The upscaling tool enhances existing low‑resolution videos to 1080p and 4K, regardless of source, and access is provided via the Vertex AI API and Vertex AI Media Studio. Developer documentation and a sample video editor agent are available to help teams get started.

🛡️ Cloudflare introduced EmDash, presented as a modern, more secure alternative to WordPress. The MIT-licensed, open-source CMS aims to reduce plugin-driven vulnerabilities by isolating execution and enforcing least-privilege principles. EmDash uses a different content model and targets developer-first and AI-driven site workflows. While attractive for new projects, enterprises face nontrivial migration and ecosystem challenges.

🔒 Gemma 4 is now available on Google Cloud as an open, commercially permissive (Apache 2.0) family of models with context windows up to 256K, native vision and audio processing, and support for over 140 languages. Enterprises can deploy and fine-tune Gemma 4 via Vertex AI, serve inference serverlessly on Cloud Run, or run production workloads on GKE and TPUs. The release highlights data residency and compliance through Sovereign Cloud options and open weights, enabling secure, controlled AI deployments.

📣 This guide highlights the Infrastructure and GKE sessions at Cloud Next '26, offering a curated set of technical breakouts across Compute, AI infrastructure, migration, modernization, and scale. Attend spotlights and deep dives to hear from Google leaders and engineering teams about Gemini, Google Distributed Cloud, and the AI Hypercomputer. Sessions cover TPU/GPU roadmaps, high‑performance compute, agentic AI pipelines, and practical migration and FinOps strategies designed to help organizations build resilient, AI‑ready infrastructure.

🌱AWS has launched the free, standalone AWS Sustainability console to show customers estimated carbon emissions from their AWS usage without requiring billing permissions. Building on the Customer Carbon Footprint Tool, the console reports emissions by AWS Region, service, and scope using both market-based and location-based methods. It also adds customizable visualizations, fiscal-year settings, CSV exports, and API/SDK access for integration into reporting workflows.

☁️ Amazon RDS for Db2 is now available in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) AWS Region, enabling customers to deploy, operate, and scale Db2 databases in the cloud within minutes. RDS provisions automatically configured parameters to optimize performance and supports Multi‑AZ synchronous replication to a standby instance for high availability. Licensing options include hourly pay‑as‑you‑go purchases from the AWS Marketplace or Bring Your Own License (BYOL), available in both Standard and Advanced Editions. Usage may be eligible for the Database Savings Plan.

🆕 Amazon RDS for SQL Server now offers Microsoft SQL Server Developer Edition in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Developer Edition is a free, full-featured, non-production license that mirrors Enterprise capabilities, helping teams reduce licensing costs for development, testing, and demonstrations. Amazon RDS-managed features — automated backups, automated software updates, monitoring, and encryption — are supported for SQL Server 2019 and SQL Server 2022 instances.

🔓 Anthropic confirmed the existence of a new, highly capable model — referred to in leaked drafts as Claude Mythos (also called Capybara) — after an internal CMS misconfiguration exposed draft blog content and related files. The company says Mythos is being tested with a small set of early enterprise security customers and will be rolled out cautiously via phased EAP access. Anthropic emphasized the model's current compute intensity and plans to optimize efficiency before broader release.

🔍Data Agent in the Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio Query Editor brings natural-language-to-SQL capabilities to your SQL analytics workflow. You can ask questions in plain language and have the agent generate context-aware SQL for Amazon Redshift and Amazon Athena, propose step-by-step plans, and use Fix with AI to diagnose and correct failed queries. It preserves query context across follow-ups and is available in IAM domains where SageMaker Unified Studio is supported.

🎿 My Epic Assistant is an AI-powered concierge built by Vail Resorts with Google Cloud and partner 66degrees to deliver personalized recommendations across passes, lessons, and resort services. The assistant uses multi-agent orchestration, webhook-supplied user attributes, and a structured pass matrix to generate tailored pass suggestions and actionable content cards. Since launch, it has reduced escalations to human agents by 45%, speeding support while preserving brand and policy controls.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has launched EC2 High Memory U7i instances in AWS Europe (Milan), introducing u7i-8tb.112xlarge with 8 TiB DDR5 and u7i-12tb.224xlarge with 12 TiB DDR5 memory. These instances are powered by custom 4th‑generation Intel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids) processors and deliver 448 and 896 vCPUs respectively. Both sizes support up to 100 Gbps for Amazon EBS and networking and include ENA Express, making them well suited for mission‑critical in‑memory databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.

🖼️ Amazon Bedrock now offers Palmyra Vision 7B from Writer, a multimodal 7B-parameter model that interprets and generates text from images via the Bedrock API. Trained on PixMo, a dataset of one million high-quality image-text pairs, the model supports visual question answering, handwritten text extraction, chart interpretation, and image-based comprehension for enterprise workflows. It is available in select AWS Regions to simplify deployment of multimodal applications.

🔒 The new Aurora DSQL Connector for Ruby (pg gem) simplifies building Ruby applications on Aurora DSQL by automating IAM token generation, SSL configuration, and connection pooling. It removes the need for persistent user-generated passwords while preserving full compatibility with existing pg gem features. The connector also provides optional optimistic concurrency control (OCC) retry with exponential backoff and supports custom IAM credential providers and AWS profiles.

📚 OpenAI has begun rolling out a new ChatGPT Library feature that stores personal files and images in its cloud so they can be referenced in future chats. The feature is available to Plus, Pro, and Business subscribers worldwide except in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Files uploaded in chats or via the composer are saved by default to a secure, dedicated location and remain in the Library until manually deleted; deleting a chat does not remove the stored file.

🏥 AWS HealthImaging is now available in the AWS Europe (London) Region, offering a HIPAA-eligible, fully managed service to store, analyze, and share medical images at petabyte scale. The service provides DICOMWeb APIs for integration with existing clinical systems and AWS-native APIs for cloud-first implementations. AWS states organizations can reduce storage costs by up to 40%, enable faster image access for clinical workflows, and accelerate development of AI-powered diagnostic applications while maintaining strict security controls.

🤖 Cloudflare’s Workers AI now hosts frontier open-source models, beginning with Kimi K2.5, a 256k-context model that supports multi-turn tool calling, vision inputs, and structured outputs. The release enables organizations to run full agent lifecycles on Cloudflare’s Developer Platform, leveraging primitives like Durable Objects and Workflows. Cloudflare emphasizes improved price-performance, prefix caching, a session-affinity header, and a redesigned asynchronous API to lower latency and inference costs for agentic workloads.

🔒 Microsoft announced Zero Trust for AI, extending proven Zero Trust principles across the AI lifecycle and shipping new tools and guidance to help security teams deploy AI with confidence. The update adds an AI pillar to the Zero Trust Workshop, expands the Zero Trust Assessment to include Data and Networking, and introduces a Zero Trust for AI reference architecture. Microsoft also published practical patterns for threat modeling and AI observability to help teams verify agents, apply least privilege, and assume breach.

🧠 Amazon has launched EC2 High Memory U7i-6TB instances in AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia). The u7i-6tb.112xlarge offers 6TiB of DDR5 memory and 448 vCPUs, with up to 100 Gbps for Amazon EBS and network, plus ENA Express for accelerated networking. These instances are powered by custom fourth‑generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids). They are designed for mission‑critical in‑memory databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.