Articles Tagged "Google Cloud"

OpenAI Breaks Azure Lock in Microsoft Deal Rewrite

Microsoft drops exclusive OpenAI IP rights and ends its revenue-share payments as OpenAI gains freedom to deploy on Google Cloud, AWS, or any provider.

Best AI Cloud Cost Optimization Tools 2026

A data-driven comparison of Vantage, CAST AI, ProsperOps, CloudZero, nOps, and Infracost - the top AI-powered platforms for cutting cloud and GPU spend in 2026.

Google Backs Anthropic With $40B and 5 Gigawatts

Google commits up to $40 billion to Anthropic alongside five gigawatts of cloud compute, making it the largest single infrastructure bet in AI history.

Google Virgo Network Ends the Datacenter Scaling Tax

Google's Virgo Network connects 134K TPU chips at 47 petabits per second using a flat two-layer topology that removes the bandwidth degradation cluster operators have engineered around for years.

Google ADK Review: The Agent Framework for Gemini

A hands-on review of Google's Agent Development Kit - the open-source framework for building multi-agent AI systems, with a look at its strengths, limitations, and how it stacks up against LangGraph and CrewAI.

llm-d Joins CNCF - Kubernetes Gets a Native LLM Inference Stack

IBM Research, Red Hat, and Google Cloud donated llm-d to the CNCF at KubeCon EU, giving Kubernetes a production-grade distributed LLM inference framework built on vLLM.

Google Launches Gemini Embedding 2 for Multimodal AI

Google's first natively multimodal embedding model maps text, images, video, audio, and PDFs into a single vector space - now in public preview via Gemini API and Vertex AI.

Anthropic Academy Drops 13 Free Courses Covering the Full AI Stack

From Claude 101 to MCP Advanced to Agent Skills - Anthropic's free curriculum on Skilljar covers everything from basic prompting to production deployments on AWS Bedrock and Google Vertex AI.

Google TPU v6e Trillium

Google Cloud TPU v6e Trillium specs, benchmarks, and pricing. 32GB HBM per chip, ~1,600 GB/s bandwidth, optimized for Transformer training and inference at cloud scale.

Google TPU v7 Ironwood

Google TPU v7 Ironwood specs, architecture, and performance estimates. Google's next-gen inference-optimized TPU with massive memory per chip, announced at Cloud Next 2025.

Google Absorbs Its Robotics Moonshot Intrinsic - Physical AI Just Got a Corporate Home

Alphabet folds robotics software company Intrinsic into Google after five years as an independent moonshot, giving it access to Gemini models, DeepMind research, and Google Cloud - plus a Foxconn joint venture building AI-driven factories.

One Company, Two AI Apps, 300 Million Leaked Messages and 2 Million Exposed Photos

Turkish AI company Codeway left Firebase and Google Cloud Storage wide open, exposing 300 million chat messages from 25 million users and 8.27 million photos and videos across two apps. Over 12 TB of user data leaked.