Storage Intelligence adds usage findings and batch dry runs
Storage Intelligence flags unusual storage usage and previews batch changes. A recurring dataset read shows why the job’s purpose matters when choosing which objects to move.
Agent
Writing on Agent.
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Google PageBreak tests AI-found bugs before sending reports
Google’s internal PageBreak agent proposes web vulnerabilities; separate validators test them in running applications. Reproductions can reduce the investigation work handed to developers.
AlloyDB previews separate compute for agent queries
AlloyDB’s preview gives read-only agent queries separate compute that scales to zero. Shared storage and the first query after idle time shape its value for incident investigation.
GuideAI in production
Recovering an automation write after a timeout
A missing response can leave a worker already created. Durable operation IDs and the destination’s idempotency contract let a replacement executor recover the original request.
NewsObservability
CloudWatch Omni brings agent evaluations and telemetry into one workspace
CloudWatch Omni combines service discovery, agent evaluations, traces and natural-language queries. Its spaces retain account and Region scope, shaping cross-service investigations.
NVIDIA’s Cluster Readiness Engine tests GPU workloads before admission
NVIDIA’s Cluster Readiness Engine runs diagnostic, communication and training workloads on selected nodes. Workload-specific thresholds turn those results into an admission decision.
NVIDIA introduces NodeWright for Kubernetes host updates
NodeWright coordinates package, configuration and tuning changes across Kubernetes hosts. Progressive rollout and package verification organize the update one selected node group at a time.
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Claude Opus 5.5 lowers token prices and changes thinking behavior
Anthropic reports lower Opus task costs and new preserved-thinking behavior. A runbook exception provides a concrete comparison of the model’s reasoning and integration requirements.
GuidePlatform engineering
Disruption budgets and the capacity left behind
Plan an inference-service node drain with a scoped disruption budget, replacement-capacity checks and a practical maintenance worksheet.
TensorRT speeds up one video by using eight GPUs
NVIDIA reports generation falling from 156.6 to 34.2 seconds on its example workload. The eight-device layout also changes how much capacity remains for other requests.
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SWE-Serve tests coding agents through live inference
SWE-Serve checks coding-agent patches through a running SGLang server. In NVIDIA’s experiment, adding live-serving checks reduced the pass rate for the same patches.
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Antigravity brings local models to its agent SDK
Antigravity’s SDK supports Gemma through LiteRT and compatible local model servers. A hybrid cloud planner offers another arrangement, with filenames and task descriptions sent off-device.