All news with #product launch tag

🚀 GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna on Amazon Bedrock now support 1 million token context windows, allowing full-codebase analysis, long-form document processing, and complete multi-turn histories in a single request. Models provide broader-context reasoning and more coherent outputs without chunking. Prompt caching with explicit cache breakpoints reduces repeated-context billing by 90%, and pricing aligns with OpenAI first-party rates. Availability varies by model across US East (N. Virginia and Ohio) and US West (Oregon) regions, accessible via the Bedrock Console or the Responses API on the bedrock-mantle endpoint.

🧭 Data Commons on Spanner Graph general availability and a preview of the Data Commons Platform simplify linking private enterprise data with Google's extensive public knowledge graphs. The platform consolidates standardized public datasets from over 100 providers into a unified graph with >400 billion observations and leverages Spanner Graph for native GQL support, incremental updates, and consistent snapshots. Organizations can deploy private instances to federate private and public knowledge graphs while retaining data isolation and enabling natural language query workflows.

🖥️ Today Cloudflare announced an early preview of @cloudflare/computer, a runtime that gives each agent a virtual "computer" — a primed filesystem and selectable execution environments. The package uses Durable Objects and isolates as the primary, horizontally scalable compute primitive while optionally attaching containers for heavier tasks. It provides a durable filesystem, tools (read, write, edit, ls, exec), and multiple execution backends, aiming to minimize container usage and improve efficiency for agentic systems.

🧾 Cloudflare announced a new Billable Usage API for self-serve accounts that returns usage and cost by product and charge period in a machine-consumable format. The single endpoint covers usage-based products like Workers, R2, D1, Workers AI, Vectorize, Images, and Stream, with daily updates today and more real-time data planned. The response aligns with the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS) naming and integrates natively with Vantage for cost reporting, budgets, and alerts.

🧭 OpenAI has announced Astra, an unreleased model designed for long-running, complex tasks after an internal version produced ten notable advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science. The research highlights breakthroughs across areas like geometry, coding theory, complexity, and lattice cryptography, with formalized proofs checked via Lean. OpenAI may release Astra as GPT-5.7, GPT-6, or another name, and could limit stronger variants under stricter policies.

🛰️ Cloudflare has added isolation and access controls to its global Media over QUIC (MoQ) network by introducing a provisioning API that creates isolated relays (scopes) and issues publish/subscribe tokens. The relays are available across Cloudflare’s network within seconds with no servers to deploy and support draft-14 and draft-16 MoQ transport features; the beta is free to use. Tokens are scoped, revocable, and manageable via API or dashboard, and Cloudflare is documenting the control-plane model as an IETF Internet-Draft for broader interoperability.

🚀 xAI's Grok 4.3 is now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US‑West), adding another model provider option for government and regulated workloads. Grok 4.3 is a reasoning-first model with configurable reasoning effort and strong tool-use and instruction-following capabilities. It runs on the new Mantle inference engine to provide price-performance benefits, tool calling, structured output, and response streaming. The model is suited for enterprise scenarios like customer support, legal research, and financial Q&A.

🔒 The Gemma 4 family from Google DeepMind is now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-West). The offering includes three variants—Gemma 4 31B, Gemma 4 26B-A4B, and Gemma 4 E2B—covering dense and MoE architectures with support for multimodal inputs, native function calling, and a 256K-token context window on the 31B variant. Bedrock enhancements target price performance, tool calling, structured output, reasoning, and streaming responses to support reliable generative AI workloads.

🔒 Check Point announces the industry’s first AI Network Firewall, extending its AI Defense Plane to the enterprise network. The firewall inspects prompts, file uploads, model calls, and agent actions in real time to detect intent, prevent data exfiltration, and block prompt injection. It discovers and governs sanctioned and shadow AI tools and agents while protecting AI applications across hybrid environments.

🔗 AWS announces general availability of AWS Interconnect - multicloud for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), enabling customers to provision resilient, scalable private connections between AWS and OCI. The service simplifies multicloud networking that previously required complex DIY solutions. OCI entered public preview in May and now joins Google Cloud as a supported provider; Microsoft Azure support is expected later in 2026. The feature is available in the us-east-1 (N. Virginia) region and can be created via Console, CLI, or API.

🔍 Infoblox has launched an External Attack Surface Management (EASM) capability and a Supply Chain Intelligence feature to expand its exposure management suite. The DNS-centric approach discovers internet-facing assets without agents, credentials, or active scanning and highlights DNS-specific risks like dangling CNAMEs. The new capabilities integrate with Infoblox’s existing Digital Risk Protection Services and aim to help security teams continuously identify and prioritize external exposures based on exploitability and business impact.

🛡️ Microsoft revealed Project Perception, MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and several AI security initiatives during a July 27 Security launch preview. Project Perception uses coordinated red, blue and green agents to identify, triage and remediate threats, and will enter Preview on August 3. The company also introduced the MAI-Cyber-1-Flash model integrated into MDASH, plus the FORGE Lab and the External Red Team Alliance to accelerate offensive research and broaden AI safety efforts.

🔧 AWS has announced the general availability of the AWS Lambda Durable Execution SDK for .NET, enabling C# developers to build resilient, long-running workflows using Lambda durable functions. The SDK provides idiomatic C# constructs for progress checkpointing, durable invocation, callbacks for human or agent-in-the-loop workflows, and suspension waits of up to a year. It installs via NuGet, includes a local testing emulator for debugging, and supports common multi-step scenarios like payment pipelines and AI orchestration.

🚀 Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) is now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul), Europe (Zurich), and Europe (Stockholm). This expansion enables running VMware Cloud Foundation directly in your Amazon VPC on EC2 bare-metal instances powered by AWS Nitro. It supports VCF 9.0 and 9.1, allowing rapid migration, reduced operational risk, and improved proximity for lower latency and compliance.

🗂️ AWS Wickr introduces a managed Data Retention Service for Premium customers, enabling retention of conversations across networks—including direct messages, Groups, Rooms, and federated teams—for archival and audit purposes. The serverless, cloud-native solution replaces container-based approaches with simplified deployment, managed infrastructure, automatic scaling, and monitoring while preserving Wickr's end-to-end encryption. The feature is opt-in for Premium networks and is available in multiple AWS regions including US, Canada, Asia Pacific, Europe, and AWS GovCloud.

🚀 Starting today, Amazon EC2 C7a instances are available in AWS US West (N. California). Powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC (Genoa) processors with up to 3.7 GHz, C7a delivers up to 50% higher performance than C6a and introduces AVX-512, VNNI, and bfloat16 support. These instances use DDR5 memory with 2.25x more memory bandwidth and come in 12 sizes including bare metal, plus support for up to 128 EBS volumes. Built on the AWS Nitro System, C7a is optimized for compute-intensive workloads and is available via On-Demand, Spot, and Savings Plans.

🚀 Amazon announced general-purpose EC2 M8a instances are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region. Powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors, M8a offers up to 30% higher performance and up to 19% better price-performance versus M7a. Instances provide 45% more memory bandwidth, SAP certification, 12 sizes including two bare metal options, and support for Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot purchases.

🔎 This post introduces 13 code-first demos for the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, showing how to build, scale, govern, and optimize agents using the ADK and Agents CLI. The demos range from an ADK foundation codelab and MCP data connectors to stateful deployment on Agent Runtime, event-driven long-running workflows, and production-grade governance with Agent Gateway and Model Armor. Each demo teaches practical patterns — from UI generation and multi-language A2A pipelines to test-driven security, AutoRater evaluations, and cross-framework orchestration — so teams can prototype locally and then deploy and monitor agents at enterprise scale.

🚀 Amazon EC2 High Memory U7in-24TB (u7in-24tb.224xlarge) instances are now available in the AWS Europe (Paris) region. These U7i instances belong to the 7th generation and are powered by custom 4th-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids), offering 24 TiB DDR5 memory and 896 vCPUs. They deliver up to 100 Gbps Amazon EBS bandwidth, 200 Gbps network bandwidth, ENA Express, and up to 45% better price performance versus U-1 instances. Ideal for in-memory databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.

🔒 Palo Alto Networks has announced the general availability of Prisma AIRS AI Gateway, an AI control plane designed to provide unified governance, identity, and runtime controls for enterprise AI interactions. The gateway sits inline between agents, AI apps, and model providers to deliver observability, policy enforcement, credential scoping, and runtime inspection. Built from Portkey innovations, it targets scale and security gaps as AI usage and outbound data volumes surge across enterprises.