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Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is Google's cloud computing division, offering infrastructure, storage, data analytics, and AI services to enterprises.
AWS has committed $1 billion, OpenAI more than $4 billion and Anthropic $100 million to forward-deployed engineers, CNBC reported. The budgets buy different things, and Anthropic's pays for training engineers who stay on other employers' payrolls.
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Google DeepMind and Google Cloud will give up to 200 European researchers access to frontier models and $3 million in compute credits. The pool is small, so any lock-in would come from the habits labs build around five Google models.
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Alphabet president Ruth Porat said Monday that capex will "increase significantly" next year from roughly $200 billion this year. Second-quarter free cash flow was already negative $5.9 billion, a first for Alphabet as a public company.
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A dev.to author built the AWS-Azure private interconnect in about 60 minutes on an Azure Preview limited to AWS, 1 Gbps and same-region links. The lab confirms the path comes up on a single 1 Gbps circuit. Production plans have to live inside the Preview limits until Microsoft changes them.
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Google Cloud's Gemini agent works inside Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack and the command line, keeping one set of memories across all of them. For whoever rolls it out, the work becomes wiring in the systems of record and access controls it depends on.
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HSBC is preparing to cut about half of the managers and specialists in its UK wealth unit and close to 70% of its advisers, the FT reported. The bank has not confirmed the figures, and the cuts would partly reverse an earlier plan to hire more UK advisers and grow assets under management.
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HKT Payment is testing, in a Hong Kong regulator's sandbox, a blockchain 'agentic ID' that ties an AI agent's payments to a verified person or company. The pilot brings the question of whom an agent acts for under supervisory review, though the report describes a test and no rule.
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The run rate climbed from about $9B to more than $65B in seven months, and prospective buyers are now asking for the accounting basis rather than the growth story, because the gross-or-net answer moves the multiple and the margin in opposite directions.
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Google Cloud's Gemini agent, launched on October 8, gives each AI coworker its own company email address, calendar and directory entry. For now, customers are left to set the policies for licensing those accounts and answering for their work.
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HashiCorp's Terraform provider for Google Cloud 8.0 switches the default scheme on two load balancer resources from EXTERNAL to EXTERNAL_MANAGED. Teams still on Classic have to pin the old value before they upgrade, or the first plan may propose changes to their live load balancers.
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Mysten Labs and Google Cloud launched an audit layer for AI agents on October 6, ahead of EU AI Act fines of up to 3% of global turnover from 2027. Agent logs stay in customer-controlled Google storage and only the proofs go to Sui and Walrus, with no price or customer yet disclosed.
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Google Cloud will delete its remaining blockchain nodes and RPC endpoints on December 15, 2026, six months after it stopped creating new ones. Teams still on the service now have a migration to fund and test, with Quicknode as Google's recommended destination.
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Omnissa has named former Palo Alto Networks president Amit Singh CEO, effective immediately, to push its 15,000-customer endpoint business toward AI agents. His plan stretches the management software already on customers' devices to cover AI agents too, so buyers would get agent controls from a vendor they already use.
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AWS's project spending limits pause a project at its cap and permanently delete its data after 90 days paused without action. The cap bounds what a runaway agent experiment can bill, so someone has to own recovery and keep independent backups.
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Agent runtimes should refuse unit 501 of a 500-unit budget before the call runs, a dev.to post argues. The new AWS and Google Cloud spend caps then become the backstop behind a tighter limit in the agent's own call path.
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AWS added a per-project spend limit on September 16, 2026 that pauses service at the monthly cap, following Google Cloud's July launch of Spend Caps. A cap that checks each request stops at once, while one built on lagging billing data keeps charging until a function fires.
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Google released an official Swift SDK for more than 100 Cloud services, so teams that build Apple apps can write their servers in Swift too. At version 0.4.0 its maintainers still reserve breaking changes before 1.0, and production readiness is for adopters to establish.
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Google Cloud made Spanner queues generally available on October 2, so a database write and a queued task can now commit in a single transaction. For teams running AI agents, queue capacity grows with the Spanner compute they already buy, so messaging becomes a database cost.
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Google's Cloud Run instances, priced from $5.70 a month, kept an open-source AI agent running with its memory intact in a developer's Preview test. For an agent that mostly waits, it trades a VM's patching for limits the code must be written around.
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Truffle Security found 543,699 credentials in public GitHub code that still authenticated in July 2026, in files a median 784 days old. GitHub's push-time blocking cannot reach keys already published, and those keys stay live until an owner or issuer revokes them.
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