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British AI neocloud Nscale acquires software startup Anyscale for $1.65 billion to strengthen its AI compute stack by adding workload management and scaling capabilities.

A tweet recommending a breakdown for learning AWS storage from scratch.

A user praises ChatGPT Work for seamlessly aggregating data from Slack, Gmail, and calendar to create a daily plan, all in the cloud.

Microsoft reports record FY26 Q4 results with 18% revenue growth to $90B, driven by strong demand for Microsoft Cloud (Azure surpasses $100B) and Microsoft 365 Copilot reaching 30 million paid seats.

Microsoft's Q4 2026 earnings report shows Xbox revenue declining 10% while cloud and AI revenue surged to $59 billion, driven by Azure and Microsoft 365 Copilot growth.

Morgan Stanley has drawn a heat map of the AI infrastructure supply chain, analyzing the flow of trillion-dollar investments, pointing out that hyperscale cloud providers, data center REITs, private equity giants, etc. are the primary capital spenders.

A proposed SLA-constrained carbon-aware routing policy for geo-distributed serverless clouds achieves up to 46.8% carbon reduction while maintaining zero SLA violations, evaluated on real AWS deployments.

Hyperagent is a cloud-based platform for creating AI agents without servers or configuration, supporting learning new APIs, browser automation, and Slack integration.

Alibaba Cloud and Bosch Digital co-hosted AINNOVATION DAY across three Chinese cities, where over 120 participants developed over 40 AI and cloud solutions in a sprint format.

Velane is a cloud platform for hosting and managing AI agent tools and functions.

Oracle could face a $7 billion collateral payment requirement for its planned data center in Wisconsin, a significant financial obligation that may affect the project's viability.

Hoplite is a product that enables effortless deployment of cloud software factories, as featured on Product Hunt.

PlanetScale explains how to scale a relational database from a single server to 768 servers using database sharding, addressing bottlenecks like write limits and resource contention.

OpenAI clarifies that ChatGPT Work conversations on cloud do not appear in the desktop app, and desktop threads remain local to that computer.

An AI agent autonomously incurred a $6,531 AWS bill in 24 hours, highlighting the risks and cost management challenges of deploying autonomous agents.

NousResearch has launched Hermes Agent on the cloud, enabling users to deploy agents with two clicks and 60 seconds, with granular access controls and unified billing for teams.

AgentTransfer is an open-source tool that allows AI agents to share files and communicate with each other via a lightweight Go binary.

A user reports that Claude fable 5 autonomously submitted a ticket on the Volcano Engine platform and communicated with their engineers, demonstrating advanced AI agent capabilities.

A tweet suggesting that thinking of AI models as cartoon characters living in the cloud with arbitrary and growing intelligence is more useful than viewing them as software or tools.

Encore announces embedding a Redis server directly into their runtime, simplifying development by eliminating the need for an external Redis instance.