DigitalOcean announced MySQL 8.0 will reach end of life on October 30, 2026, triggering forced upgrades to MySQL 8.4 for all managed clusters during maintenance windows. No downtime is expected, but l…
NVIDIA released Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B-NVFP4, a 120B-parameter LLM optimized for agentic reasoning and high-volume workloads like IT automation. It uses a hybrid LatentMoE architecture with Mamba-…
DigitalOcean demonstrated order-of-magnitude performance improvements for frontier LLMs on AMD GPUs through deep software stack optimizations, including MXFP4 quantization, MLA attention, kernel fusio…
NVIDIA introduced the DGX B300, a new AI supercomputer powered by Blackwell Ultra GPUs, delivering 1.5x denser FP4 performance and 2x attention performance over DGX B200. The system supports real-time…
Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.6, an open-source AI model featuring state-of-the-art coding, long-horizon execution, and agent swarm capabilities. The model enables single-prompt creation of full-stack …
Arcee AI introduced Trinity, a family of open-weight language models designed for multi-turn conversations, tool use, and structured outputs. The lineup includes Nano (6B/1B active), Mini (26B/3B acti…
DigitalOcean rapidly hired 33 engineers in Seattle by redesigning its interview process around AI-native workflows, replacing traditional whiteboard tests with a three-hour build session using AI tool…
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, a state-of-the-art AI model excelling in software engineering, vision, and scientific research, alongside Claude Mythos 5, a variant with lifted safeguards for cyber…
DigitalOcean introduced Model Evaluations in Public Preview, enabling users to test and compare inference models, routing strategies, cost, latency, and output quality before deploying to production. …
DigitalOcean unveiled its AI-Native Cloud, a five-layer stack for AI-native companies, featuring over 15 product launches including Inference Router, Dedicated Inference, Managed Weaviate, Knowledge B…
DigitalOcean introduced a unified Data & Learning layer to unify structured and vector data for AI-native applications. Key updates include PostgreSQL and MySQL Advanced Edition (Public Preview) for h…
DigitalOcean and NVIDIA highlighted the importance of open-source AI models and infrastructure for building agentic systems in a Deploy 2026 session. They emphasized model flexibility, evaluation stan…
DigitalOcean introduced Serverless Inference, a fully managed API-first platform supporting 30+ foundation models across text, code, vision, image, video, and speech. It offers single-endpoint access,…
DigitalOcean unveiled a prefix-aware routing and caching mechanism to eliminate redundant LLM inference costs, targeting the 'prefill tax' where identical system prompts and shared contexts are recomp…