Weekly Cloud Info #W45 - 2024

November 08, 2024

Good morning!

This week is packed with exciting AI announcements, a surge of AWS updates ahead of reinvent conference, and a few important security alerts to keep an eye on.

Have a great read.

📰 Top picks of the week

OpenAI Releases ChatGPT Search Feature

OpenAI recently released ChatGPT Search which allows ChatGPT to search the web when answering user questions. Instead of being limited to knowledge available at the time of training, ChatGPT can now incorporate current information from the web and include links to its sources.

xAI API is now available

developers can build on our Grok foundation models using our newly released API. We will run a public beta program until the end of 2024 during which everyone will get $25 of free API credits per month.

Meta AI Introduces Thought Preference Optimization Enabling AI Models to Think before Responding

a new method aimed at improving the response quality of instruction-fine tuned LLMs. Unlike traditional models, which focus solely on final answers, this approach enables LLMs to generate and refine an internal thought process to produce more accurate and coherent responses.

Bria 2.3, Bria 2.2 HD, and Bria 2.3 Fast are now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Fast text-to-image foundation models (FMs) from Bria AI are now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. Bria models are trained exclusively on commercial-grade licensed data, providing high standards of safety and compliance with full legal indemnity.

Amazon Route 53 announces HTTPS, SSHFP, SVCB, and TLSA DNS resource record support

Route 53 now supports HTTPS and Service Binding (SVCB) record types, which provide clients with improved performance and privacy. Instead of only providing the IP addresses of endpoints in response to a DNS query, HTTPS and SVCB records respond with additional information needed to set up connections such as whether your endpoint supports HTTP/3, thereby letting supporting clients connect faster and more securely.

Announcing Kyverno release 1.13!

Kyverno 1.13 contains over 700 changes from 39 contributors! Few new features are Sigstore Bundle Verification, Exceptions for ValidatingAdmissionPolicies, Validation Rules with Assertion Trees

Malicious PyPI Package 'Fabrice' Found Stealing AWS Keys from Thousands of Developers

A malicious package on the Python Package Index (PyPI) that has racked up thousands of downloads for over three years. The package in question is "fabrice," which typosquats a popular Python library known as "fabric," which is designed to execute shell commands remotely over SSH.

Google Cloud C4A VMs now GA: The first custom Arm-based Axion CPU

The first Google Axion Processor, allowing 60% better energy-efficiency and 65% better price performance

Mandatory MFA is coming to Google Cloud. Here’s what you need to know

MFA for all Google Cloud users who currently sign in with just a password. starting early 2025. The provider will provide advance notification to enterprises and users along the way to help plan MFA deployments.

Announcing the availability of Azure OpenAI Data Zones and latest updates from Azure AI

Data Zones allow customers to process and store their data within specific geographic boundaries, ensuring compliance with regional data residency requirements while maintaining optimal performance

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