AI companies have committed approximately $9.75 billion over 12 months to forward-deployed engineering (FDE), embedding engineers inside customers to deploy AI. FDE job postings surged 42x from 2023 t…
Apple has added a popup in iOS 26 and iOS 27 beta that informs users their data is sent to Google Cloud when using AI features like shape generation in iWork and Freeform. The company confirmed its ne…
Apple is showing users a consent popup when some AI prompts are sent to Google Cloud, including for image-generation features in Apple Creator Studio and selected iOS 26 and iOS 27 beta features. The …
Apple has added a new popup in iOS 27 and iOS 26 that notifies users and requests permission when their data is sent to Google Cloud to power certain AI features, such as shape generation in iWork and…
Google Cloud and Valtech launched Nexus SDV, an open-source, AI-enabled connected vehicle platform built on Google Cloud to secure and scale software-defined vehicles. The platform integrates Gemini A…
Shari Thurow will present a five-phase framework for site architecture at SMX Now on July 15, addressing how to improve navigation, taxonomy, and AI accessibility. The session challenges common miscon…
Argus maintained a Buy rating on Alphabet on June 23, 2026, with a $440 price objective, reinforcing investor confidence in Alphabet's AI, cloud, and compute-infrastructure spending. The analyst note …
FactSet partnered with Google Cloud on June 30 to embed Gemini AI models into its FactSet Workstation, serving over 241,000 financial professionals. The deal includes agentic AI workflows for portfoli…
Debates over whether digital platforms have created a new economic system called 'technofeudalism' are intensifying, with critics arguing that platform power, behavioral capture, and rent extraction f…
Google is sunsetting the consumer tier of Gemini Code Assist on GitHub and the Gemini CLI, with a final shutdown on July 17, 2026, as it pivots to a multi-agent developer platform called Google Antigr…
Google Cloud launched the Workbench Notebooks extension for VS Code, enabling data scientists to manage cloud-based Jupyter environments directly from their local IDE. The open-source tool aims to str…
Google launched Gemini Spark on Mac on July 1, enabling local file access, MCP support, and real-time topic tracking. The AI agent can now read, organize, and edit files on a user's Mac, but processes…
Anthropic released the Claude apps gateway on June 29, 2026, a self-hosted control plane that lets enterprises run Claude Code through Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Foundry with corporate…
Context engineering and memory engineering solve distinct problems in agentic AI systems, with context engineering focusing on single inference calls and memory engineering on long-term information pe…
Google's annual electricity consumption rose 37% in 2025, the largest increase in company history, driven by AI data center buildout. The tech giant reduced operational carbon emissions by 2% through …
Apple has extended its Private Cloud Compute (PCC) to Google Cloud for the first time, running AI workloads on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, Intel TDX CPUs, and Google Titan chips. The move allows Apple to u…
Google Cloud launched its first Africa Cloud Summit in Johannesburg, announcing new AI and infrastructure investments including a Digital Exchange Port in South Africa, Africa's first Applied AI Lab i…
Cockroach Labs CEO Spencer Kimball unveiled a vision for agentic AI infrastructure at RoachFest London 2026, announcing CockroachDB's four composable layers including virtual clusters and AI operation…
SOCRadar, a cybersecurity company providing threat intelligence, migrated from PostgreSQL to Google Cloud's AlloyDB and achieved a 20x performance boost. The move enabled sub-second query latency for …
Amazon Web Services is investing $1 billion to launch a Forward Deployed Engineering organization that will embed AI engineers directly inside customer organizations to accelerate AI adoption. The ini…