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Today, we announced the new Gemini agent, your single, universal agent for work. For small and midsize businesses, with lean teams and margins, Gemini will be a critical tool for you to operate effici

Public research universities solve some of society’s most urgent challenges, but turning ideas into breakthroughs requires fast, secure access to cutting edge technology. In the agentic AI era institu

Editor’s note: This article is adapted from Thomas Kurian’s keynote address at Gemini at Work 2026. It includes a number of announcements: Gemini, a single, universal agent for work that answers your

As threat actors increasingly use AI to accelerate and develop cyberattacks, enterprise defenders need to rely on both AI and a critical defender’s advantage: Business context that only you possess. E

Google Cloud has become the platform of choice for startups building AI. Our uniquely complete stack — including a choice of first- and third-party compute and models; our platform for building and ma

Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu: Paris-based Arlequin AI, which is developing proprietary models based on topological neural networks, raised a €28M Series A co-led by redalpine and OTB — Arlequin AI has

Enterprise security startup Cymphony Inc. formally launched today with 30 million in funding and software that tracks what artificial intelligence agents and employees can reach inside company systems

An AI agent doesn’t need to be malicious to cause damage. It just needs to reason its way into the wrong system, the way a well-meaning agent handling a finance report might decide it needs a code rep

Identity security has always worked the same way: log in once, get trusted until you log out. That model breaks down the moment an AI agent does the logging in, since an agent can call a dozen tools i

Pictet rolled out Claude Code and Cowork to about 700 people; Anthropic reports selected prototype and compliance-task time savings.

Gilbert + Tobin uses ChatGPT and Codex in governed legal operations; OpenAI reports 87% active usage among enabled users.

Pythian deployed Gemini Enterprise to employees. Pythian reported 80% shorter database incident resolution time using AI in a Google Cloud guest post.

Protecting capital in today's markets requires immense speed and precision. A financial analyst preparing a deal memo works across licensed market data, internal models, and confidential client files.

At Google Cloud, we help organizations of all sizes build and operationalize complex agentic workflows with total confidence. By combining world-class AI research with an open, fully integrated AI pla

**Title: Catching Rogue AI Behavior with Identity‑Aware Analytics** The blog outlines methods for detecting anomalous or malicious activity from AI agents by linking their actions to specific user or

New York Times: A look at the deluge of AI computing power set to come online in the coming years; Epoch AI expects the number of AI chips in use to double every nine months — The milestones for artif

Database security traditionally relies on a fragile balance between the granular control developers need and the administrative overhead of managing thousands of individual database passwords. Between

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is embarking on a transformative journey to redefine how we understand and predict patterns in the Earth’s atmosphere that affect the weather

For years, we’ve built with a clear priority: putting the practical needs of the enterprise first. Long before generative AI dominated the headlines, we were focused on building the global infrastruct

If you’re an IT leader, you might be getting a lot of questions about how to build and deploy agents. The pressure to move fast is intense, but the engineering reality is incredibly complex. Where do

A year after cutting around 9,100 employees, Microsoft is making further layoffs today as it begins its new financial year. The software maker is laying off around 4,800 employees today, approximately

Workflow automation vendor Pegasystems Inc. today unveiled a broad set of artificial intelligence enhancements aimed at helping enterprises deploy AI agents in mission-critical business processes whil

Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for May 2026. Today, Usman Chaudhary, Field CISO, Google Public Sector, offers a guide for CISOs protecting government agencies and critical infrastructur

Bloomberg: Internal speech: JD.com founder Liu Qiangdong vows to protect the company's 900,000 employees from AI and automation, saying it will “do everything possible” — JD.com Inc. founder Liu Qiang

Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: A profile of Meta CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, a top lieutenant of Mark Zuckerberg who is leading the gargantuan effort to transform Meta into an AI-first company

NVIDIA agent skills enable specialized agents to deliver targeted capabilities across enterprise workflows , with governance provided through verified, scanned, and signed skills. JFrog AI Catalog aut

Accessing enterprise data is shifting from static reports to dynamic use by autonomous systems. To keep up, organizations must route fragmented data from SaaS, IoT, and legacy sources into secure, sca

Cisco announced nearly 4,000 job cuts as part of a restructuring to shift investment toward artificial intelligence while simultaneously raising its annual revenue forecast after strong hyperscaler de

Shares of the networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. soared 20% in extended trading today after it reported solid third-quarter earnings and revenue numbers and announced a new round of job cuts, saying

This guide from OpenAI outlines strategies and best practices for enterprises implementing and scaling artificial intelligence across their organizations. It likely covers topics such as infrastructur

Shares in Cloudflare Inc. plunged more than 16% in late trading today after the content delivery network and security company beat fiscal 2026 first-quarter estimates but issued second-quarter revenue

The AI era demands a fundamental shift in security, and that includes identity and access management (IAM). Traditional controls simply aren’t built for autonomous AI agents that interact with sensiti

The agentic era is here, and the public sector is at the forefront of leading this transformation.At Google Cloud Next ’26, it was clear that academia and public sector organizations are no longer jus

In the era of AI agents, the distance between a big idea and a working application has never been shorter. As we lean more heavily on agents to help us build applications, a critical question remains:

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Artificial intelligence-based human resources company Phenom People Inc. announced today that it has acquired Plum.io Inc., a psychometric-based talent assessments company that measures the durable sk

Lenny Rachitsky / Lenny's Newsletter: Q&A with Evan Spiegel on why distribution is the most important moat in consumer tech, investing in Specs, 2026 as a “crucible” moment for Snap, and more — Snap's

Google Cloud Next ‘26 took place this week in Las Vegas, and the energy was incredible as we welcomed over 32,000 leaders, developers, and partners to explore the Agentic Era with us. Across three key

Samsung's mobile division may record its first-ever annual loss in 2026 , driven primarily by rising memory chip prices, particularly low-power DRAM . Samsung executive TM Roh has warned that a possib

Ananya Bhattacharya / Rest of World: Tracxn: global edtech funding fell from 16.7B in 2021 to 2.6B in 2025, while the number of startups launched dropped from 10,491 in 2021 to just 645 in 2025 — Vent

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: Memo: Meta plans to cut 10% of workers, or ~8,000 jobs, on May 20 and won't fill 6,000 open roles, in an effort to offset its AI spending and boost efficiency — Meta Platforms

Meta is planning to layoff around 10 percent of employees in May, according to a memo from the company's chief people officer, Janelle Gale, published by Bloomberg. That means approximately 8,000 peop

Chris Metinko / Axios: Orkes, which helps companies scale their AI and agentic systems, raised 60M, including a 40M Series B led by AVP, bringing its total funding to ~90M — Orkes, which helps compani

Octen, a startup with software that enables artificial intelligence agents to search the web, launched today with 10 million in seed funding. Square Peg led the investment. It was joined by Singapore-

Google Cloud is honored to present the 2026 Partner of the Year winners! These awards recognize partners who have displayed a commitment to excellence by leveraging Google Cloud technology to deliver