By Jacob Meyers and Rob Zienert Temporal is a Durable Execution platform which allows you to write code “as if failures don’t exist”. It’s become increasingly critical to Netflix since its initial adoption in 2021, with users ranging from the operators of our Open Connect global CDN to our Live reliability teams now depending on Temporal …
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Foundation model training has reached an inflection point where traditional checkpoint-based recovery methods are becoming a bottleneck to efficiency and cost-effectiveness. As models grow to trillions of parameters and training clusters expand to thousands of AI accelerators, even minor disruptions can result in significant costs and delays. In this post, we introduce checkpointless training on …
The AI state of the art is shifting rapidly from simple chat interfaces to autonomous agents capable of planning, executing, and refining complex workflows. In this new landscape, the ability to ground these intelligent agents in your enterprise data is key to unlocking true business value. Google Cloud is at the forefront of this shift, …
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Give your AI apps and agents a natural, almost human-like interface, all through a single WebSocket connection. Today, we announced the general availability of Gemini Live API on Vertex AI, which is powered by the latest Gemini 2.5 Flash Native Audio model. This is more than just a model upgrade; it represents a fundamental move …
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TL;DR In 2026, the businesses that win with AI will do three things differently: redesign core workflows around AI agents, treat AI as an operating system rather than a toolset, and deliberately restructure human work to compound AI advantages instead of fighting them. By 2026, AI will no longer be a differentiator by itself. Nearly …
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How Cavanagh and Palantir Are Building Construction’s OS for the 21st Century Editor’s Note: This blog post is co-authored by Joe Patrois, AI Lead, Thomas Cavanagh Construction, and Jesse Velay-Vitow, Deployment Strategist, Palantir, reflecting insights from both sides of this transformative partnership. Introduction Construction is one of the world’s oldest industries and a prerequisite for nearly …
As cloud infrastructure becomes increasingly complex, the need for intuitive and efficient management interfaces has never been greater. Traditional command-line interfaces (CLI) and web consoles, while powerful, can create barriers to quick decision-making and operational efficiency. What if you could speak to your AWS infrastructure and get immediate, intelligent responses? In this post, we explore …
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Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for December 2025. Today, Francis deSouza, COO and president, Security Products, Google Cloud, shares our Cybersecurity Forecast report for the coming year, with additional insights from our Office of the CISO colleagues. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google …
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Unveiling what it describes as the most capable model series yet for professional knowledge work, OpenAI launched GPT-5.2 today. The model was trained and deployed on NVIDIA infrastructure, including NVIDIA Hopper and GB200 NVL72 systems. It’s the latest example of how leading AI builders train and deploy at scale on NVIDIA’s full-stack AI infrastructure. Pretraining: …
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