The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is trialing an AI tool, Augmented Planning Decisions, designed to halve householder planning application processing times from eight to four w…
Google Cloud announced the general availability of BigQuery Managed Python User-Defined Functions (UDFs), enabling data practitioners to run custom Python code directly within BigQuery using standard …
Google launched a Starter Tier for Google AI Studio that lets developers deploy prototypes without a payment method or billing account. The tier provisions a fully managed project with Cloud Run, Clou…
Mistral AI, a Paris-based AI company, is positioning itself as an enterprise-focused infrastructure provider rather than a consumer chatbot competitor, emphasizing open weights, customization, and sov…
Gap Inc. unveiled an AI-powered marketing and personalization strategy at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, enlisting Zeta Global, Google Cloud, and Publicis Sapient to modernize …
Amazon's Eric Brandwine argues against mandatory human-in-the-loop AI governance, citing human inconsistency and the normalization of deviance where humans become desensitized to repeated false alarms…
SpaceX revealed its AI1 satellite, a 70-meter-wide orbital data center designed for AI inference in low Earth orbit, with each unit delivering 150 kW of peak compute. The company aims to deploy 1 GW o…
Google Cloud has launched BigQuery Conversational Analytics, a feature that uses Gemini to allow users to query massive datasets with natural language. The tool includes governance features like Datap…
Addy Osmani and Shubham Saboo from Google Cloud published five patterns for building reliable, stateful AI agents, addressing the common failure of agents that work in demos but break in production. T…
The US Department of Defense has deployed GenAI.mil, the largest enterprise LLM rollout, scaling from 80,000 to 1.5 million daily users by June 2026. The platform uses multi-model orchestration with G…
Google's Gemini API began blocking unrestricted API keys on June 19, 2026, after years of allowing keys to access the service without explicit restrictions. The change follows a Truffle Security repor…
Dataland, billed as the world's first museum of AI arts, opens in downtown Los Angeles on June 20, co-founded by media artist Refik Anadol and Efsun Erkılıç, with Google Cloud powering the site. The i…
SAP and Google Cloud announced a collaboration to deploy an agentic commerce architecture for enterprise marketing and retail operations. SAP research shows 78% of businesses view AI as essential for …
Microsoft rolled out AI Citation Share and other features in Bing Webmaster Tools, while new data from Google and Ahrefs cast doubt on the effectiveness of llms.txt for AI search visibility. Google, M…
Alibaba Cloud opened its first data centres in France, launching two availability zones in Paris as its third European hub. The expansion coincides with the EU's new Cloud and AI Development Act, whic…
Google Cloud published the Open Knowledge Format v0.1 on June 12, 2026, an open specification for agent knowledge using markdown files with YAML frontmatter. The author proposes six features from the …
AI coding agents struggle with dependency management in large-scale engineering, often breaking downstream systems because they lack organizational context. Postman can serve as a context layer to map…
Google Cloud and Anyscale announced optimizations for Ray Serve LLM on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) that deliver up to 5x higher throughput and 8x lower latency for large language model inference. T…
HSBC announced a multi-year partnership with Google Cloud to deploy AI across its global operations, targeting hyper-personalized wealth management, financial crime risk management, and tools for fron…
Ray Serve LLM, in partnership with Google Kubernetes Engine, announced major performance improvements achieving up to 4.4x higher throughput on prefill-heavy workloads and 24x higher on decode-heavy w…