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Chipotle Is Working With Palantir to Track Food Safety Risks

The burrito chain has enlisted Palantir for a platform that monitors pest incidents, employee illnesses, and other factors. The partnership comes after a nightmare summer for food safety across the US.

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DZone

Event-Driven AI Systems With Kafka and Autonomous Agents

Enterprise AI is moving beyond isolated prompt-response calls and toward systems that observe events, preserve state, invoke tools, and publish decisions back into operational workflows. In that setting, event streaming is not simply middleware. It becomes the record of how intelligent behavior unfolds over time. Kafka is designed to read, write, store, and process streams of events across distributed systems, while Kafka Streams adds joins, aggregations, windowing, event-time processing, and ex

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Google Cloud Blog

How Orange built FinOps accountability, and why agents are next

At Orange, the leading France-based multinational telecom provider, there are days when engineering teams set aside their delivery backlogs and spend the day cleaning up cloud spend together. There's a leaderboard. There are goodies on the line. Experienced practitioners guide the newcomers, so people learn the work while doing it. By the end of the day, sponsors can see the results. Orange calls these FinOps Clean Days. Together with gamified hackathons, they've earned the company's 100-plus pe

AI & Machine LearningCustomersGoogle Cloud Consulting
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Google Cloud Blog

M4N VM family, now GA: Highest per-core IOPS and throughput for I/O and memory-bound workloads

As enterprise organizations scale mission-critical applications, storage I/O and memory access can become severe operational bottlenecks. Whether its Oracle databases, in-memory databases like SAP HANA, or high-throughput SQL Server clusters, EHR systems, and real-time big data analytics, memory-bound databases often force enterprises to over-provision compute cores (vCPUs) to get the RAM capacity and storage bandwidth they need, driving up costly third-party software licensing fees. Today, we a

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Google Cloud Blog

Cloud CISO Perspectives: How Google monitors AI threats and advances AI defenses

Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for September 2026. Today, Sandra Joyce shares the latest details on Google’s visibility into how attackers are using AI, and how we’re using AI to stop them. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog. If you’re reading this on the website and you’d like to receive the email version, you can subscribe here. aside_block <ListValue: [StructValue([('title', 'Get vital board insights

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Google Cloud Blog

For SeaVerse, GKE Agent Sandbox reduces infrastructure costs by 60%

Editor’s note: Today we hear from SeaVerse, a gaming startup from SeaArt that is building a platform for playable AI experiences, where users can open lightweight games, character chats, and interactive apps, or create their own experiences from a prompt. To support that creative loop, SeaVerse needed infrastructure that could run dynamic, multi-tenant sandbox workloads with strong isolation, low latency, better observability, and more flexible costs. Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and GKE Agent

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