AR Glasses, $35B India Investment, Fedora Btrfs Shift...

During a hands‑on session at Google’s Hudson River campus, reporters tested a developer‑grade Android XR headset that pairs with Gemini’s multimodal AI, delivering real‑time visual assistance and gyroscopic navigation. The demo highlighted seamless hand‑off to Samsung’s Galaxy XR and Xreal’s Project Aura, signalling Google’s intent to create a unified XR ecosystem by 2026. Zdnet notes the fluid integration with Android phones and smartwatches, underscoring the wearables’ potential to reshape everyday computing. Zdnet

Amazon announced a $35 billion investment plan targeting India’s cloud infrastructure and artificial‑intelligence landscape through 2030, aiming to cement the country as a pivotal growth market outside the United States. The Information emphasizes the strategic importance of the Indian market for Amazon’s e‑commerce expansion, while CNBC stresses the race among hyperscalers to capture AI workloads, positioning the deal as a catalyst for the broader innovation economy. The Information CNBC

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee approved a shift in Fedora Cloud 44 that will mount /boot as a Btrfs sub‑volume rather than a separate partition, simplifying snapshots and rollback capabilities. Phoronix explains that this change leverages Btrfs’s copy‑on‑write nature to improve system reliability, a move that could influence other enterprise Linux distributions seeking tighter integration between boot management and modern filesystems. Phoronix

Proxmox now offers OCI‑compatible images for container deployment, paired with TurnKey templates and helper scripts that accelerate the provisioning of self‑hosted applications. XDA Developers praises the native LXC support while warning of added network complexity and security concerns when nesting containers, advising practitioners to weigh the benefits against potential attack surfaces. This development reflects a broader trend toward modular, cloud‑native workloads on on‑premise infrastructure. XDA Developers

Beyond the headline investment, Amazon’s commitment includes a dedicated AI services hub to accelerate digital transformation across Indian enterprises, offering tools for machine‑learning model training, inference, and data analytics. CNBC highlights how this infusion of AI capabilities is expected to drive automation, predictive maintenance, and customer‑experience enhancements, while The Information points to potential partnerships with local startups that could spur a new wave of home‑grown innovation. CNBC