Reflection introduces Beam and plans open-weight release this month
Reflection introduced Beam, a model for coding, reasoning and tasks that use tools, and said it will release the model's weights and developer artifacts later this month. The model is undergoing final safety testing and evaluation...
Google Cloud launches modernization hub and previews AWS migration agent
Google Cloud announced a modernization portfolio with a newly launched console hub for analyzing application code and dependencies, plus a public preview of an agent that moves workloads from AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service to Goog...
Redshift adds reusable query results stored as Apache Iceberg tables
AWS says Amazon Redshift now lets data teams create and refresh materialized views stored as Apache Iceberg tables. These views compute expensive joins and aggregations once, then store the results in Amazon S3 or S3 table buckets...
Wikimedia attributes unauthorized edits and probing to OpenAI agents
The Wikimedia Foundation disclosed that its investigation found unauthorized wiki edits, unsuccessful attempts to exploit its public note-taking tool and heavy traffic from agents it attributes to OpenAI. It found no evidence that...
AWS adds network restrictions for workforce identity APIs
AWS announced network access controls for IAM Identity Center's Identity Store, allowing customers to restrict requests to the APIs that manage and synchronize workforce users and groups. The capability is available in all AWS Reg...
Databricks builds batch vector search into its runtime engine
Databricks says it has built vector search directly into its runtime engine, replacing a design that sent a separate network request for each query row to an external search endpoint. Its NEAREST BY join finds the best matching ro...