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Google Cloud pitches itself as the operating system for enterprise AI agents

New Capabilities

Running the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform; Agent-to-Agent protocol in production at 150 organizations; Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services in preview

Four months after Cloud Next 2026, Google's agentic pitch has shipped. In April it folded Vertex AI into the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, adding a low-code Agent Studio and a runtime that keeps state for days. Agent Gateway routes and inspects agent traffic; Agentic Data Cloud gives agents governed access to BigQuery and other data engines over the Model Context Protocol.

Updated Aug 27

Google completes record acquisition of cloud security firm Wiz

Money Moves

Integrating Wiz alongside existing Mandiant security capabilities

Wiz was founded in January 2020 by four veterans of Israel's military intelligence Unit 8200. Six years later, Google paid $32 billion in cash — the largest deal in Google's history, the largest cybersecurity acquisition ever, and more than the combined cost of its eight next-biggest purchases.

Updated May 30

The race to put AI in your kitchen

New Capabilities

Expanding Gemini AI into consumer hardware through Samsung partnership

Samsung just put Google's Gemini AI inside a refrigerator. Not alongside it, not as an app—built directly into the hardware.

Updated May 19

AI data centers are rebuilding – and stress-testing – the U.S. power grid

Built World

Hyperscale cloud and AI platform driving new data center clusters and clean energy procurement

Since late 2022, U.S. regulators and utilities have warned that AI-optimized data centers could reshape national power demand, ending an era of flat electricity consumption and forcing rapid buildout of generation and transmission. By early 2026, those warnings have crystallized into concrete challenges. PJM Interconnection's December 2025 capacity auction hit the $333.44/MW-day price cap and failed to meet reliability requirements for the first time in its history. Data centers accounted for $6.5 billion—or 40%—of the auction's $16.4 billion in costs.

Updated May 10