Vast Data secures a massive $1 billion Series F funding round backed by Nvidia, catapulting its valuation to $30 billion — more than triple its 2023 worth — as the AI infrastructure company surpasses $4 billion in cumulative bookings and $500 million in annual recurring revenue.
MCP (Model Context Protocol) surpasses 300 million monthly SDK downloads, cementing its role as the dominant integration standard for production AI agents while powering key Claude features and offering developers best practices to slash token usage by up to 85%.
Google Cloud unveils its eighth-generation TPUs at Next '26, delivering 121 exaflops of power in a single superpod, alongside a revolutionary Virgo Network fabric capable of connecting over one million TPUs into a single training cluster, plus major AI infrastructure upgrades including NVIDIA Vera Rubin-powered instances and an AI Inference …
Google Cloud launches the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, a powerful evolution of Vertex AI enabling businesses to build, scale, and govern AI agents at enterprise level, with major companies like Comcast, PayPal, and L'Oréal already deploying production-grade agents to automate customer support, financial workflows, and operational intelligence.
Vast Data secures $1 billion in Series F funding, tripling its valuation to $30 billion with backing from Nvidia and Fidelity, as its AI data infrastructure platform tackles critical memory and storage bottlenecks threatening to derail the generative AI revolution.
Apple and Google are uniting on AI as Google Cloud powers Apple's next-generation foundation models built on Gemini technology, with a more personalized Siri launching later this year that taps into users' messages and emails through a redesigned Dynamic Island interface.
OpenAI launches its Agents SDK, a Python framework now boasting 24,800+ GitHub stars, enabling AI to execute complex multi-step tasks across 100+ LLMs, with a new Sandbox feature allowing agents to inspect files, run commands, and manage entire workspace environments autonomously.
A free open-source proxy called 'free-claude-code' now lets developers run Claude Code CLI and its VSCode extension without an Anthropic API key by rerouting requests through alternative providers like NVIDIA NIM, DeepSeek, or OpenRouter.
Google unveils its 8th-generation TPU chips — the TPU 8t and TPU 8i — delivering nearly 3x the compute performance per pod, 80% better performance-per-dollar, and 2x improved energy efficiency over the previous generation, set for general availability later this year.
Google Cloud is processing over 16 billion AI tokens per minute, launching its 8th-generation TPUs and a new Enterprise Agent Platform, while reporting that 75% of internal code is now AI-generated and AI-driven security tools are cutting threat mitigation time by over 90%.