Google unveils 8th-gen TPUs, agent platform, and Workspace AI layer at Cloud Next '26
Google used its Cloud Next '26 conference to unveil its eighth-generation TPUs, a revamped agent platform, and a new AI layer for Workspace. The company is pitching the whole package under the ba [...]
Pichai opens Cloud Next 2026 with $240B backlog, 750M Gemini users, and a plan to turn Search into an agent manager
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 exp [...]
5% GPU utilization: The $401 billion AI infrastructure problem enterprises can't keep ignoring
For the last 24 months, one narrative justified every over-provisioned data center and bloated IT budget: the GPU scramble. Silicon was the new oil, and H100s traded like contraband. Reserve capacity [...]
Microsoft cuts hundreds of Azure jobs in China as the borderless cloud splinters
The cloud was supposed to make geography irrelevant. Microsoft’s latest round of job cuts in China shows how quickly that promise is coming apart. Microsoft is laying off hundreds of staff at its Az [...]
Adobe embeds agentic AI workflows across Creative Cloud, shifting from media generation to production orchestration
Adobe has announced a major expansion of its "creative agent" across its flagship Creative Cloud suite and upgraded Firefly AI studio. Available in public beta starting today across Premiere [...]
OVHcloud confirms its outlook as public cloud growth accelerates past 20%
Europe’s largest cloud company posted faster third-quarter growth and reaffirmed full-year guidance, with its public cloud segment back above 20%. OVHcloud, the Roubaix-based group that France keeps [...]
Britain’s public sector runs on US cloud, and that is now a billion-pound risk
Britain’s public sector has become deeply reliant on a small number of US cloud giants, and analysts warn the concentration is now a strategic risk. Nearly all UK government organisations spend on h [...]
An AI now judges every move Rubrik's agents make, its AI chief said at VB Transform 2026 — but no one's measured if the judge is right
At a CISO roundtable organized by Anthropic's chief information security officer, Dev Rishi asked a simple question: Did everyone in the room have their AI governance and security policies writte [...]