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Market leader pursuing model-agnostic agent strategy via Bedrock
Google Cloud introduced Agent Compute Engine at its AGNTCon + MCPCon event on October 22. The service runs agents in hardware-isolated sandboxes, suspends them when idle and restores them on demand; Google says a preview arrives in the coming months.
Updated 8 hours ago
Operator of the Physical AI Toolchain
Amazon runs more than a million robots inside its own fulfillment network. In October 2026 it packaged the lessons from that operation into an open-source platform, the AWS Physical AI Toolchain, for companies building machines that perceive, decide, and act in the physical world.
Updated 2 days ago
Already offers OpenAI models
OpenAI's GPT-6 models and its Codex coding agent are moving into Google Cloud's Model Garden. The three models, Astra, Sol and Luna, are in private preview for select enterprise customers, and the companies say general availability is weeks away.
Largest cloud provider, $200B capex guidance for 2026 after Q4 AWS 24% growth to $35.6B
ChatGPT's November 2022 launch triggered the fastest infrastructure buildout in tech history. Hyperscalers are now on track to spend over $1 trillion in 2026, a figure roughly equal to the entire GDP of Turkey or the Netherlands.
Updated 5 days ago
High-profile case study for co-located load after the Susquehanna dispute
Data centers found a shortcut: park next to a generator and drink power without waiting years for grid upgrades. In December 2025, FERC ordered PJM to rewrite its tariff so co-located mega-load can't stay invisible to planning and cost responsibility. In June 2026, FERC expanded the push, ordering six grid operators to justify or overhaul how they connect AI data centers.
Updated Oct 16
Cloud and AI infrastructure partner for the plugin
On October 6, Southwest Airlines became the first U.S. carrier to appear inside ChatGPT. Travelers can describe a trip, compare fares, and shop all four Southwest fare products without leaving the chat window.
Updated Oct 10
Project approval pending
Ohio's Supreme Court barred a citizen-initiated ballot measure that would have let Wilmington residents sue Amazon Web Services over its planned $4 billion data center campus. The 6-1 ruling on Sept. 18 said cities can't create private rights of action through zoning ordinances.
Updated Sep 23
First agent platform supported by Agent Resilience
Cohesity now backs up AI agents the way it backs up databases and file servers. Its Agent Resilience capability protects agent memory, configuration, credentials, guardrails, and workflows, with point-in-time recovery to a known-good state after corruption, misconfiguration, or prompt injection.
Updated Sep 22
Host of Kimi K3 on Amazon Bedrock across all AWS Regions
Companies can now deploy Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model, on Amazon Bedrock with the same security controls reserved for proprietary models. It is the largest open model on the service, with native vision, a 1-million-token context window, and explicit prompt caching, an open-model first on Bedrock.
Updated Sep 19
Confirmed permanent data loss in Bahrain and one UAE availability zone
Iranian drone strikes damaged Amazon's Gulf data centers in March. Six months later, Amazon Web Services (AWS) confirmed it cannot restore customer data stored only in Bahrain and one of three UAE availability zones.
Updated Sep 16
Building Sta'O'Nuk as part of its global fiber network
AWS broke ground on Sta'O'Nuk, a subsea cable connecting Washington state to Japan, with service targeted for 2029. At 420 Tbps across 20 fiber pairs, it will be one of the largest trans-Pacific routes ever built.
Updated Sep 5
Shipping custom Trainium chips in volume
Chip stocks lost more than $1 trillion in market value on July 28, 2026. Memory maker SK Hynix fell about 14% and Samsung dropped over 10%, pulling South Korea's Kospi down roughly 9%. Nvidia slid more than 5% and briefly handed the title of world's most valuable company back to Apple.
Updated Jul 28
US-East-1 region affected by February 2026 cascade
On February 16, 2026, a misconfigured routing update at Cloudflare's Ashburn data center cascaded across the internet, taking down X for three hours and degrading AWS's largest region. Thousands of other websites went down too. The error took 40 minutes to identify but four hours to fix because corrupted routing tables spread to upstream providers.
Updated May 29
Primary investor and operator
Amazon is transforming northern Indiana farmland into one of the world's largest artificial intelligence computing hubs. In November 2025, the company announced a $15 billion expansion on top of an $11 billion project already under construction near New Carlisle.
Updated May 27
Pursuing nuclear power partnerships after FERC setback; invested $500M in X-energy SMRs
Google spent $4.75 billion over a year ago acquiring Intersect Power, owning power plants that feed its AI data centers. Amazon bought a Pennsylvania nuclear campus; Microsoft restarted Three Mile Island in September 2024; Meta announced nuclear deals with Vistra, TerraPower, Oklo unlocking up to 6.6 gigawatts for American AI. Tech giants now control the grid.
Updated May 16
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