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Ep 24: Two firms, Amazon and Microsoft, can still ease UK cloud switching. · MAG 7 Daily

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  Two firms, amazon and microsoft can still ease uk cloud switching. This is MAG 7 Daily, episode 24. The
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  uk competition and markets authority in an account carried by ua.news from channel news
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  asia says amazon web services and microsoft can do more to strip out barriers that still
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  make a switch hard. That same assessment covers customers who want several clouds, not one.
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  The authority says clearing those obstacles should widen choice in the united kingdom. It will
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  People keep considering whether to open a full investigation into strategic market status
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  in the UK cloud market.
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  Glee Holding Group said on October 16th that it has a global partnership with Google
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  for a digital cockpit.
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  Chief Technology Officer Shen Yuan says the services land on Glee passenger brands overseas,
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  only where Google services already run.
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  Gemini, maps, and play are the pieces.
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  destinations, nearby charging stations, apps, voice commands, the ordinary errands.
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  The first model with that stack is aimed at the global market in the second half of
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  2027.
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  Shen's line is that a cockpit crowds fast, and the job is to make the technology feel
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  less demanding.
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  The holding company lists Glee, Glee Galaxy, Zeaker, Lincoln Co, Volvo, Polestar, Lotus,
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  This, Smart, Farazon, Proton, LEVC, and Radara.
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  Zeaker had already signed Air Console for Incar Cloud Gaming, and in April, 2026, it
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  signed three screen solutions for a media platform on Android Automotive.
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  British Airways has written Meta's AI glasses into its carriage rules.
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  PYOK reports the airline changed the general conditions of carriage, so passengers cannot
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  use those glasses to film staff or seatmates in secret.
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  it.
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  Section 7A.10 lets British Airways refuse to carry someone who films, live streams, or
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  photographs crew, or other colleagues without consent.
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  Section 11A lets the airline put that passenger off the aircraft, refuse another flight, including
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  a booked return, and report them to the police.
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  Wearing the glasses is still allowed, and LED is supposed to show that recording is on,
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  and the report notes cases of people covering that light.
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  Cabin crew and other customer-facing staff at the airline are already barred from smart
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  glasses themselves.
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  This sits months after a ban on photographing or filming those workers without express consent,
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  and on live streaming anyone without permission.
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  In June, Volataya staff at Oviado walked away from a travel vlogger who would not stop a service
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  exchange in meta-glasses, and the airline warned the conduct could breach Spanish privacy
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  law.
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  Google is putting Gemini 4 argon into anti-gravity, the agentic coding tool for AI pro and AI ultra-subscribers.
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  9-5 Google says that follows a wider release to users earlier this week,
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  and that the argon allowance is a separate weekly quota on top of the Gemini 3.8 flash quota.
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  Google calls argon the model for the hardest problems.
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  On YouTube's comments front end, it traced production profiles, pinned redundant
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  emoji rendering at nearly 45% of server overhead, and drove 12 optimizations that cut the CPU
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  footprint in half. Those changes took 30 milliseconds off server comment load latency,
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  and 20 milliseconds off client end-to-end latency. On a queue of 134 open bug reports, agents
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  buttons closed 97-stale or duplicate tickets in under 3 hours, a 72.4% cut, and left 37
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  assigned to owners.
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  On a batch of access control changes, Argonne found four critical security bugs after
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  two earlier frontier models had called the same code clean.
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  A four-trend to rust rewrite through a custom skill came back 1.8 times faster, and an ad
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  sales workflow cut prospect research by 90%, about 10 hours a week.
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  Apple took the online store down this morning ahead of iPhone Duo pre-orders.
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  MacRumors says those pre-orders start at 5 in the morning Pacific time today, October
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  16, and the US store tells shoppers it is almost ready.
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  Buyers in more than 70 countries and regions can order once the store returns.
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  A list that includes Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Mexico, the
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  UAE, the UK, and the United States.
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  The foldable comes in Star White and Night Sky at 256GB, 512GB, 1TB, and 2TB.
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  In the United States, the starting price is $1,999.
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  Apple has used the 5AM Pacific Open for several years instead of the old 1 minute past midnight.
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  That cloud warning to Amazon and Microsoft stopped short of a case.
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  The authorities' own next step in the same UA.News account is to keep considering a full
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  strategic market status investigation. A yes on that investigation is what would turn
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  today's nudge into a formal probe of the UK cloud market. Amazon's new open decision
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  model was timed on Nvidia and Apple Silicon, not on an AWS instance the right up describes.
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  Strands Decider 2B has 2 billion parameters and is meant to pick from a list the developer
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  already wrote, routing, tool choice, classification, guardrails, context. It returns a decision
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  plus confidence scores, not a long answer. The base is Quinn 3.5 at two billion parameters,
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  with the language model head swapped for a pointer head and a rank 16 Laura adapter on top.
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  Wates, training data, and scripts are public through a package called Strand's Decider
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  on the command line or inside Strand's agents. Media and decision time was about 115 milliseconds
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  on an Nvidia RTX 3090. Small tasks took 153 milliseconds on an Apple M3 MacBook.
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  On JevBench, Checkpoint V19 scored 72.3% across 231 public tasks.
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  InfoQ sets it beside Typesafe AI's Jev, a managed API for the same kind of structured choice
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  and says the published bench does not show a direct win over Jev.
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  The other half of the drop is Strand's Box, still in developer preview, which sends Shell, Python, MCP tools, files and network through dogwood policies outside the model.
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  A rule can demand tests before a code push, limit external API calls, or block outbound HTTP after the agent reads a customer file.
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  Github discussion already flags concurrent requests, Apple Silicon compatibility and cold
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  start delay, AWS Community Builder Yuki Yamashita reported that the decider stopped an unsupported
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  weather tool call.
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  On the calendar, iPhone Duo deliveries and in-store sales start on October 23rd.
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  The phone then reaches 28 more countries and regions on October 30th.
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  On October 24th, Amazon plans to cut the European sovereign cloud in Brandenburg off the AWS
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  global network backbone for several hours, with EU staff and hardware kept inside that cloud.
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  Before we go, Shenzh's first Google-equipped Geely model is still pointed at the back half of
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  2027. That's Mag 7 Daily for today. Nothing in this show is financial advice. I'm Patrick and
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