Cloud Computing

How to calculate your AI costs on Google Cloud

What is the true cost of enterprise AI? As a technology leader and a steward of company resources, understanding these costs isn’t just prudent – it’s essential for sustainable AI adoption. To help, we’ll unveil a comprehensive approach to understanding and managing your AI costs on Google Cloud, ensuring your organization captures maximum value from […]

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Not Lost in Translation: Rosetta 2 Artifacts in macOS Intrusions

Written by: Joshua Goddard Executive Summary Rosetta 2 is Apple’s translation technology for running x86-64 binaries on Apple Silicon (ARM64) macOS systems. Rosetta 2 translation creates a cache of Ahead-Of-Time (AOT) files that can serve as valuable forensic artifacts. Mandiant has observed sophisticated threat actors leveraging x86-64 compiled macOS malware, likely due to broader compatibility

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Cloud CISO Perspectives: Prepare early for PQC to be resilient against tomorrow’s cryptographic threats

Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for February 2025. Today, Christiane Peters from our Office of the CISO explains why post-quantum cryptography may seem like the future’s problem, but it will soon be ours if IT doesn’t move faster to prepare for it. Here’s what you need to know about how to get your

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African super app Yassir delivers on data with BigQuery migration

Yassir is a super app, supporting the daily lives of users in more than 45 cities across Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, South Africa, and Senegal who rely on our ride-hailing, last-mile delivery, and financial services solutions. These users are both consumers and vendors — including drivers, couriers, restaurants, and more — that use our platform to

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Evaluate gen AI models with Vertex AI evaluation service and LLM comparator

It’s a persistent question: How do you know which generative AI model is the best choice for your needs? It all comes down to smart evaluation. In this post, we’ll share how to perform pairwise model evaluations – a way of comparing two models directly against each other – using Vertex AI evaluation service and

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Announcing Terraform providers for Oracle Database@Google Cloud

Many organizations use Terraform to manage their cloud deployments through Infrastructure as Code. Today we are excited to share the general availability of Terraform providers for Oracle Database@Google Cloud. You can now deploy and manage Oracle Autonomous Database and Oracle Exadata Database Service resources using the Google Terraform provider. The release compliments the existing gcloud

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Dynamic 5G services, made possible by AI and intent-based automation

The emergence of 5G networks opens a new frontier for connectivity, enabling advanced use cases that require ultra-low-latency, enhanced mobile broadband, and the Internet of Things (IoT) at scale. However, behind the promise of this hyper-connected future lies an equally critical challenge: managing the complexity of 5G networks. With dynamic demands on bandwidth, latency, and

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“Translation is the tip of the iceberg”: A deep dive into specialty models

Olga Beregovaya, VP of AI at Smartling, joins Ryan and Ben to explore the evolution and specialization of language models in AI. They discuss the shift from rule-based systems to transformer models, the importance of fine-tuning for translation tasks, and the role of human translators in ensuring reliable, high-quality output. They also touch on the

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Investing in AI, collaboration and the next generation of leaders

AI is positively transforming government operations and being used to support mission outcomes across a wide range of services, from improving patient care, enhancing learning and education, improving public safety, streamlining citizen services, and so much more. Nearly 400 technology leaders from state and local government, research, and higher education institutions discussed the transformative impact

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