Google launches the Gemini 3.5 model family at I/O 2026, introducing a blazing-fast Flash model four times faster than rivals at half the cost, a personal AI agent called Spark, and a suite of new tools spanning multimodal video, a redesigned app, and expanded desktop support.
Blackstone and Google are launching a $5 billion AI computing joint venture powered by Google's Tensor Processing Units, with 500 MW of U.S.-based data center capacity expected online by 2027 and Google veteran Benjamin Treynor Sloss named as CEO.
Google launches Gemini 3.5 Flash, a frontier AI model four times faster than competitors, now available globally, while introducing Gemini Spark, a personal AI agent running 24/7 on users' behalf, set to enter Beta for Google AI Ultra subscribers in the US next week.
Google unveils sweeping Gemini upgrades at I/O 2026, introducing a redesigned Neural Expressive interface, a personalized Daily Brief agent, cinematic AI video generation via Gemini Omni, and Gemini Spark — a 24/7 autonomous AI agent capable of managing emails, workflows, and third-party app integrations entirely in the background.
NVIDIA is hand-delivering its first custom CPU, Vera, to top AI labs including OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceXAI, featuring 88 custom Olympus cores and 50% faster per-core performance designed for agentic AI workloads, with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure set to deploy hundreds of thousands of units at hyperscale starting in 2026.
Anthropic launches self-hosted sandboxes and encrypted MCP tunnels for enterprise AI agents, letting companies run Claude-powered agents securely within their own infrastructure while keeping sensitive data off the public internet.
Unsloth Studio launches in beta, enabling users to train over 500 open-source AI models locally on Windows, Linux, and macOS up to 2x faster while using 70% less VRAM, with features including reinforcement learning, multi-GPU support, and API inference compatibility with tools like Claude Code.
OpenAI and Dell Technologies are partnering to bring Codex, now used by over 4 million weekly developers, into secure hybrid and on-premises enterprise environments through integration with Dell's AI infrastructure platforms.
Hermes Agent v0.14.0 launches today with xAI Grok integration featuring a 1M token context window, 180x faster browser calls, 19-second faster cold starts, native Windows beta support, and 9 new skills, while closing 62 critical bugs and expanding supported messaging platforms to 22.
Claude's prompt cache follows a hidden 62.5-minute break-even rule — refresh a cached prefix before expiry or pay full rewrite costs, a ratio-based threshold that scales into thousands of dollars for large, expensive models like Opus 4.7, while context compaction carries its own hidden costs requiring up to 65 future …