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Lead storyOct 06, 2026

Private Processing for Meta AI Glasses

How Meta extends data privacy from on-device to cloud processing using confidential computing.

confidential-computingai-privacycloud-security
4 min read
llm

In-House LLM Serving at Netflix

An examination of Netflix's approach to managing large language models internally with available constraints.

2 min read
amazon-bedrock

AWS Bedrock Managed Agents and Q3 Service Updates

New Bedrock Managed Agents, Aurora PostgreSQL Iceberg support, and Q3 availability updates.

4 min read
aws-iam

IAM Identity Center Adds Network Controls for Identity Store

New network access controls for Identity Store let you restrict API access by VPC endpoint or IP range.

2 min read
amazon-bedrock

GLM 5.3 now available on Amazon Bedrock

Z.ai's GLM 5.3 model with 753B parameters is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock for eligible enterprise customers.

3 min read
recommendation-systems

Netflix's LLM-Native Recs: Scale is the Key Differentiator

Netflix details their LLM-native recommendation system, GenRec, highlighting the massive scale required for its success.

2 min read

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