More than 580 Google employees, including over 20 directors, senior directors, and vice presidents, have signed a letter urging CEO Sundar Pichai to refuse classified military AI work for the Pentagon, according to Bloomberg. The letter, which includes senior researchers at Google DeepMind, was sent to Pichai on Monday. “We are Google employees who are […]
Demis Hassabis met South Korean President Lee Jae Myung at Cheong Wa Dae on Monday and signed an MOU with the Ministry of Science and ICT. The campus will be operational this year. Hassabis accepted a request to send at least 10 Google engineers from US headquarters. He presented Lee with a Go board signed […]
Summary: Google is investing up to $40 billion in Anthropic ($10B cash now at $350B valuation, $30B conditional on performance targets) plus five gigawatts of compute over five years, bringing its total commitment to ~$43B. The deal arrives as Anthropic’s revenue hit $30B ARR (up from $1B in January 2025) and its secondary market valuation […]
David Chong (left), Alyson Isaacs (center), and Taylor LaSane (right)
The European Commission is preparing to tell Google exactly how it must open Android to rival AI assistants, escalating a regulatory confrontation that will determine whether artificial intelligence becomes the next great platform lock-in or the first to be broken before it sets. EU watchdogs are poised to lay out what Alphabet must do to […]
Summary: Google announced at Cloud Next 2026 that Chrome is becoming an agentic workplace platform with Auto Browse (autonomous multi-step task completion), Chrome Skills (saveable AI workflows), a persistent Gemini side panel integrated with Workspace, and on-device AI APIs via Gemini Nano. Chrome Enterprise Premium at $6/user/month adds real-time DLP, data masking, and AI governance […]
Summary: Sundar Pichai opened Cloud Next 2026 with Google Cloud at $70 billion in annual revenue, 48% growth, a $240 billion backlog that doubled in a year, and $175-185 billion in planned capital expenditure. The Gemini app has 750 million monthly users, AI Overviews reach two billion, and the Gemini API processed 85 billion requests […]
Summary: Google announced a $750 million fund at Cloud Next 2026 to finance partners’ agentic AI development, the largest single partner investment from any hyperscaler. Accenture has built 450+ agents, Deloitte committed its “largest investment yet,” KPMG pledged $100M, PwC $400M, and NTT DATA dedicated 5,000 engineers. With partners capturing up to $7.05 for every […]
