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This Week I Learned -  * In 2024, the combined cloud computing revenue of AWS, Azure, and GCP exceeded $200B .  * AI battles - Anthropic has blocked xAI from using its Claude AI models after xAI accessed them through the Cursor coding tool, citing rules against aiding competitors.  * France’s armed forces ministry has signed a framework agreement with Mistral AI, giving its armed forces, directorates, services, and affiliated public entities—like the Atomic Energy Commission, the National Office for Aerospace Studies and Research, and the Navy’s Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service—access to AI models, software, and services developed by Mistral AI. * An AI-altered image, uploaded to social media in the immediate aftermath of a minor earthquake across Lancaster, England, convinced Network Rail that a local bridge had been badly damaged, halting travel on the line. In other fake-image news, criminals are doctoring pictures they’ve found on social media and using them as ...

This Week I Learned -  * MySQL HeatWave is a massively parallel, high performance, in-memory query accelerator that accelerates MySQL performance by orders of magnitude for analytics and mixed workloads. MySQL HeatWave on AWS is a fully managed  service that can help you create and manage a MySQL DB System with a HeatWave Cluster to use with AWS Applications. * Device42 Warranty Sync feature allows customers to take the discovered hardware devices in their environment and sync into Device42 the warranty and support contract information.  This helps in understanding which hardware is in support, what is coming up for expiration, and what devices are out of support all in one simple report.  You can also use this information to create automated email reports to alert you when hardware is coming up on expiration so you can take action to renew it or move off of that hardware platform. Device42 supports most major manufacturers like Dell, Lenovo, HP, IBM, and Meraki. *...