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DigitalOcean Blog

The Team Behind Deploy: Shipping AI, the DigitalOcean Way

Deploy 2026 came and went, and we’re still buzzing. For one day at Convene 100 Stockton in San Francisco, developers, startup founders, customers, and partners filled the room to talk about a shared challenge: how to build and scale AI products without unnecessary complexity. Conversations moved from infrastructure to inference costs, production workloads, vector databases, and what teams actually need to get AI applications from prototype to production. We’re grateful to everyone who showed up

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Powering the Inference Era: Inside the DigitalOcean Data & Learning Layer

Building an AI-native application requires a data layer that can do two things at once: handle the structured, transactional queries your application runs on, and understand meaning well enough to power semantic search across unstructured content. An AI application needs both — precise SQL for account balances and transaction records, and vector search to surface conceptually related patterns, anomalies, or past cases that a keyword query would never find. Most teams end up stitching these toget

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The Hacker News

WhatsApp, Slack Notifications Could Hijack Google Gemini on Android

A single poisoned notification from WhatsApp, Slack, SMS, Signal, Instagram, or Messenger could have hijacked Google Gemini's voice assistant on Android and made it open a victim's connected windows, fake a message from their boss, push the phone into a Zoom call, or quietly poison its long-term memory. No malicious app on the phone is required. The assistant just had to treat a hostile

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