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%.
Cursor is partnering with SpaceX to leverage xAI's Colossus infrastructure, dramatically scaling AI model training after rapid advancements with its Composer models achieved frontier-level performance at a fraction of competitor costs.
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab signs a multibillion-dollar deal with Google Cloud, gaining access to Nvidia GB300 GPU-powered infrastructure to fuel its reinforcement learning workloads and Tinker, its custom frontier AI model automation tool.