Google Cloud (Alphabet Inc.)

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

Launched Agent Compute Engine in preview at AGNTCon + MCPCon on October 22 and extended agent governance to other clouds and local coding agents; Data Agent Kit reached general availability; named a Leader in IDC's 2026 MarketScape for agentic AI platforms; Cognizant alliance expanded October 19

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

OpenAI models arrive on Google Cloud

New Capabilities

Adding OpenAI models to its Model Garden

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.

Updated 2 days ago

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