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Cloudflare Launches Free Developer Tools for Students

🚀 Cloudflare is offering 12 months of its paid Developer features free to eligible US students with a verified .edu billing email. The program expands usage allotments for Workers, Pages Functions, KV, Durable Objects, Hyperdrive, Workers Logpush, and Queues so students can build APIs, full‑stack apps, and data pipelines without immediate cost. Eligible accounts also gain access to a dedicated student Discord community and clear redemption steps for new and existing .edu accounts.

Cloudflare launches office hubs for startups in 2026

🚀 Cloudflare will open select office locations as free coworking hubs for early-stage companies beginning January 2026. The pilot will allow a capped number of external visitors on select days in San Francisco, Austin, London, and Lisbon, with registration coordinated through the Cloudflare for Startups program. Visitors will have access to common spaces at no cost, with simple ground rules and cohort-based scheduling—no mandatory talks or obligations.

Cloudflare 2025 Founders’ Letter: AI, Content, and Web

📣 Cloudflare’s 2025 Founders’ Letter reflects on 15 years of Internet change, highlighting encryption’s rise thanks in part to Universal SSL, slow IPv6 adoption, and the rising costs of scarce IPv4 space. It warns that AI answer engines are shifting value away from traffic-based business models and threatening publishers. Cloudflare previews tools and partnerships — including AI Crawl Control — to help creators control access and negotiate compensation.

Microsoft Rolls Out Gaming Copilot to Windows 11 PCs

🎮 Microsoft has begun a beta rollout of Gaming Copilot to Windows 11 PCs for users aged 18 and older outside mainland China. Integrated into the Game Bar via the Xbox PC app (Win+G), the assistant offers a Voice Mode for in‑game help, game recommendations, achievement checks and play‑history insights. Microsoft plans to push the feature to the Xbox mobile app on iOS and Android in October. Users can remove the widget from the Game Bar via Settings if they prefer.

Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion Adds Cross-Account Ingestion

🔁 Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now supports cross-account ingestion for push-based sources such as HTTP and OpenTelemetry (OTel). This capability lets teams share ingestion pipelines across AWS accounts without relying on VPC peering or AWS Transit Gateway, simplifying centralized observability and analytics workflows. The feature is available today in all regions where OpenSearch Ingestion is offered; customers can configure resource policies in the AWS Management Console or CLI and enable pipeline endpoints from their VPCs to begin ingesting data.

Google Cloud launches advanced AI training suite for roles

🚀 Google Cloud announced a new suite of AI training courses for intermediate and advanced learners across technical and non-technical roles. The curriculum covers designing and managing AI infrastructure using GCE and GKE, fine-tuning models like Gemini, serverless inference with Cloud Run, and securing generative AI deployments. Hands-on labs teach building AI agents that securely connect to enterprise databases and rapid prototyping in Google AI Studio. Courses are available on Google Cloud Skills Boost to help learners future-proof their AI skills.

Amazon RDS supports MySQL Innovation Release 9.4 Preview

🚀 Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports MySQL Innovation Release 9.4 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, enabling customers to evaluate the latest community Innovation Release on managed RDS instances. The Preview Environment supports Single‑AZ and Multi‑AZ deployments on current instance classes and retains preview instances for up to 60 days. Snapshots created in the Preview Environment are restricted to the Preview Environment, and preview instances are billed at the same rates as production RDS instances in the US East (Ohio) Region.

AWS Neuron SDK 2.26 Adds Trn2, PyTorch 2.8, JAX 0.6.2

🚀 AWS has released Neuron SDK 2.26.0 as generally available, delivering framework and runtime improvements for Inferentia and Trainium-based instances. The update adds support for PyTorch 2.8 and JAX 0.6.2, enhances inference on Trainium2 (Trn2) instances, and enables deployment of models such as FLUX.1-dev and beta Llama 4 Scout/Maverick. It also introduces expert parallelism (beta) for MoE models, new Neuron Kernel Interface APIs, and an improved Neuron Profiler with system profile grouping for distributed workloads.

Amazon Redshift Multidimensional Data Layouts GA for Queries

🚀 Amazon Redshift announces general availability of Multidimensional Data Layouts (MDDL), a dynamic sorting feature that reorganizes data according to actual query filters to accelerate analytics. MDDL creates a multidimensional virtual sort key that co-locates rows typically accessed together, enabling block-level and predicate-column skipping during execution. For tables using the default AUTO sort key, Redshift analyzes query history and automatically selects MDDL or an optimal single-column sort key based on expected benefits. AWS reports up to 10x end-to-end performance improvements for workloads with repetitive filters; MDDL is available in all AWS commercial regions.

AWS SiteWise MCP Server Accelerates Industrial Modeling

⚙️ AWS published a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for AWS IoT SiteWise in the AWS Labs open-source MCP repository to simplify industrial data modeling. The server embeds domain validation and automated modeling, applying correct units, data types, and quality indicators so models are production-ready. It maintains compatibility with existing SiteWise tools and APIs while adding conversational interfaces to streamline model authoring, asset onboarding, and downstream analytics enablement.

OpenAI's $4 GPT Go Plan Poised to Expand Regions Soon

🚀 OpenAI has started expanding its $4 GPT Go plan beyond India, rolling out nudges to free-account users in Indonesia and India and signaling broader regional availability in the coming weeks. Product pages already list pricing in USD, EUR and GBP, suggesting a possible U.S. launch. GPT Go grants access to GPT-5, expanded messaging and uploads, faster image creation, longer memory and limited deep research; GPT Plus ($20) and Pro ($200) tiers provide increasingly advanced capabilities and higher limits.

OpenAI enhances ChatGPT Search to rival Google AI results

🔎 OpenAI has rolled out an update to ChatGPT Search that improves accuracy, reliability, and link summarization to reduce hallucinations and make answers easier to verify. The search now better detects shopping intent, surfacing products when appropriate while keeping results focused for other queries, and it improves link summaries so users can follow back to sources. Answers are reformatted for quicker comprehension without sacrificing detail. OpenAI also added an GPT-5 Thinking toggle with adjustable 'juice' effort levels; the changes are rolling out gradually.

OpenAI adds user control over GPT-5 Thinking model options

⚙️ OpenAI is rolling out a toggle that lets Plus, Pro, and Business subscribers choose how much "thinking" the GPT-5 Thinking model performs, trading off speed, cost, and depth. The simpler toggle UI replaces a tested slider and exposes internal "juice" effort levels — for example, Standard (juice=18) and Extended (64). Pro users also get Light (5) for very fast replies and Heavy (200) for the model's maximum reasoning depth.

AWS Outposts expand to Canada (Central) and N California

📢 Second-generation AWS Outposts racks are now supported in the AWS Canada (Central) and US West (N. California) Regions. Outposts racks extend AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools to on-premises data centers or colocation spaces, providing a consistent hybrid experience. Customers can order racks connected to these Regions to optimize for latency and data residency, run low-latency workloads locally, and maintain centralized management in their home Region.

Amazon Q Developer CLI Adds Remote MCP Server Support

🔒 Amazon Q Developer CLI now supports remote MCP servers to centralize tool integrations and OAuth-based authentication, enhancing scalability and security in development workflows. Administrators specify HTTP transport, the authentication URL, and optional headers in agent configuration or mcp.json. Upon successful OAuth authentication, the CLI enumerates tools on the MCP server and exposes them to the agent. This capability is available in both the CLI and the Amazon Q Developer IDE plugins.

Gemini in Chrome: Secure AI for Enterprise Productivity

🤖 Gemini in Chrome brings AI assistance directly into the browser to help employees summarize reports, extract video insights, recall and navigate tabs, and take actions via integrations with Google Calendar, Docs, and Drive. Rolling out in the U.S. on Mac and Windows with Android availability and iOS coming soon, these features are configurable through Chrome Enterprise Core policies so IT retains control. AI Mode in the omnibox and enhanced Safe Browsing add context-aware responses and proactive protection against AI-driven scams.

Amazon VPC Reachability and Network Access Analyzer Expand

🛰️ Amazon has expanded VPC Reachability Analyzer and VPC Network Access Analyzer to seven additional regions — New Zealand, Hyderabad, Melbourne, Taipei, Calgary, Tel Aviv, and Mexico Central. Reachability Analyzer diagnoses network reachability between source and destination resources, while Network Access Analyzer identifies unintended access paths that may bypass security controls. This regional launch improves troubleshooting, compliance checks, and multi-account network visibility; pricing and documentation are available through AWS resources.

Stability AI Image Services Now Available in Amazon Bedrock

🖼️ Amazon Bedrock now includes Stability AI Image Services, a suite of nine specialized image-editing tools available via the Bedrock API. The offering splits into Edit tools (Remove Background, Erase Object, Search and Replace, Search and Recolor, Inpaint) and Control tools (Structure, Sketch, Style Guide, Style Transfer). It is currently supported in US West (Oregon), US East (N. Virginia), and US East (Ohio), and is intended to accelerate professional creative workflows with granular edit control.

Inside Fairwater: Microsoft's New Frontier AI Datacenter

🚀 Microsoft unveiled Fairwater, a purpose-built AI datacenter in Wisconsin and sister sites in Norway and the UK, designed to operate as a single, global-scale supercomputer. The facility deploys interconnected racks of NVIDIA GB200 servers (72 GPUs per rack) and claims 10× the performance of the world’s fastest supercomputer. It combines closed-loop liquid cooling, exabyte-scale storage and an AI WAN to enable distributed training and large-scale inference across Azure.

Step Functions: Data Sources and Metrics for Distributed Map

⚙️ AWS Step Functions now expands Distributed Map input sources and adds visibility metrics. Distributed Map can now iterate S3 objects via S3ListObjectsV2, read AWS Athena data manifests and Parquet files directly, and extract arrays from JSON stored in S3 or passed as state input. New observability metrics — Approximate Open Map Runs Count, Open Map Run Limit, and Approximate Map Runs Backlog Size — provide operational insight. These features are available in all commercial AWS Regions; enable Distributed Map mode in the Step Functions console and consult the developer guide for examples.