Google launches upgraded Gemini 2.5 Flash Native Audio featuring live speech-to-speech translation across 70+ languages while preserving speaker intonation, now rolling out to enterprise customers and beta users in the US, Mexico, and India.
AI data centers surge to $41 billion in construction spending, matching government transportation budgets and triggering fierce competition for scarce construction workers as states issue record $600 billion in infrastructure debt.
Taiwan opens its largest AI supercomputing data center in Tainan equipped with Nvidia's cutting-edge Blackwell chips, marking a bold push for technological independence with plans to expand capacity sixfold by 2028 through a partnership with Japan's NTT.
Google launches Vids, an AI-powered video creation tool that uses Gemini AI to generate complete videos from simple text prompts, featuring 8-second clip creation, AI avatars, and collaborative editing capabilities now available to Workspace users.
Anthropic emerges as Broadcom's mystery customer behind massive AI chip orders totaling $21 billion, intensifying competition with Nvidia's market-dominating processors as demand surges for custom artificial intelligence hardware solutions.
Google launches Model Context Protocol support, enabling AI agents to directly access Google Maps, BigQuery, and Cloud services through unified APIs, with plans to expand to additional cloud platforms in coming months.
Boom Supersonic raises $300 million to develop AI data center turbines and lands a massive $1.25 billion order from Crusoe for 29 water-free, 42-megawatt units that use the same supersonic technology powering their commercial airliners.
Geothermal startup Fervo Energy secures $462 million led by B Capital and Google to complete its massive 500-megawatt Cape Station plant in Utah, targeting 2026 to power Google's data centers while revolutionizing the industry by cutting well drilling time in half.
Google launches fully managed MCP servers that enable AI agents to seamlessly connect to Maps, BigQuery, and other cloud services without complex setup, using open-source protocols and existing security infrastructure at no additional cost to enterprise customers.
Nvidia-backed startup Starcloud makes history by successfully training the first AI model in space using an H100 GPU satellite 100 times more powerful than previous space computers, paving the way for massive orbital data centers that could solve Earth's energy crisis.