Alphabet's AI strategy faces scrutiny after the company reported its first quarterly cash burn of $5.9 billion in Q2 2026, despite strong Google Cloud revenue growth, raising concerns about the sustai…
NextEra Energy and Brookfield are reportedly planning a $100 billion data campus in Kentucky, which would be one of the largest data center developments in US history, driven by surging AI demand for …
A data-driven dashboard tracking five signals of AI infrastructure build-out and platform economics shows the expansion is still intensifying, with Alphabet's June-quarter cloud revenue up 82% to $24.…
NVIDIA committed $5 billion to Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), a startup with no products or published papers, in exchange for access to its research and a partnership on future compute platforms. …
Alien, a company that helps software vendors deploy into customers' AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure accounts, uses AI agents called 'Sims' to continuously test its deployment platform across diverse custo…
Google has released Managed Agents in Public Preview, giving Gemini agents a Google-hosted Linux sandbox runtime. The default Antigravity agent is documented by Google, moving agent execution to Googl…
Alphabet spent a record $44.9 billion in capital expenditures in Q2 2026, doubling from $22.5 billion a year earlier, driven by AI infrastructure investments, and reported its first-ever negative free…
Snowflake Adaptive Compute is now generally available on Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud in select regions, joining previously announced AWS availability, with up to a 30% improvement in cost for var…
An archived Google Cloud documentation page describes a Gemini Distillation Service that would use Gemini 3.1 Pro outputs to train custom Gemini 2.5 Flash models, but the page's inconsistencies and re…
Google Cloud announced the general availability of BigQuery Conversational Analytics and the Conversational Analytics API, adding to the existing GA of Conversational Analytics in Looker, with Convers…
Google Cloud announced the general availability of quantum-safe digital signatures (ML-DSA, SLH-DSA) and post-quantum key encapsulation (ML-KEM) in Cloud Key Management Service (Cloud KMS), enabling o…
Best Buy implemented Google Cloud's Workforce Identity Federation to scale AI workloads and secure access for tens of thousands of users, eliminating service account key management by federating exist…
Google Cloud announced two native cost-control features for AI workloads: early anomaly detection on AI services and spend caps on Google Cloud Budgets. The anomaly detection tool automatically alerts…
NetApp has acquired DataPelago, a California-based AI data infrastructure company, to integrate GPU-accelerated processing directly into its storage layer. DataPelago's Nucleus engine can cut infrastr…
Investors are rotating back into Alphabet stock after a chip stock rout, with shares closing above the key 200-day moving average on Monday and starting Tuesday above that level, according to Yahoo Fi…
New research from Forrester, Gartner, and Deloitte shows most enterprise AI spend remains stuck in pre-production pilots, with Gartner predicting 60% of AI projects will be abandoned through 2026 due …
On June 12, 2026, Google Cloud published the Open Knowledge Format (OKF), a folder of markdown files with a one-line organization rule, as a replacement for vector databases in AI agent knowledge retr…
Alphabet reported $120 billion in Q2 revenues, a 24% annual increase, with advertising revenues of $81.63 billion accounting for 68% of total revenue and growing 14.5% year-on-year, while Google Cloud…
Google launched the Gemini Distillation Service, which lets users train a smaller 'student' model (gemini-2.5-flash) using outputs and reasoning patterns from a larger 'teacher' model (gemini-3.1-pro)…
Elastic Cloud Serverless has expanded to four new regions across three continents, bringing total global coverage to 33 regions on Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure as of July 28, 2026. The serverless …