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Trump claimed, without evidence, that the AI backlash is a Democratic hoax.

Google said Gemini had "acted appropriately" by ending each hack immediately.

Navy CTO Justin Fanelli talks co-investing alongside VCs instead of funding early research himself, recent buys like a $562 million autonomous refueling deal, and the Navy's updated wish list — from AI to quantum — for where founders should be building next.

Petlibro's new Granary 2 smart feeders use a built-in scale and (on pricier models) an AI camera to track exactly how much your cat is eating and when — though the fanciest health-monitoring features will cost you an extra subscription.

This week two conversations about AI safety went viral that demonstrate just how hard it is to discern AI fact from fiction.

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Vals AI is hoping to make AI benchmarking a more neutral and trustworthy resource in a world increasingly inundated by AI models.

Truecaller says the one-way sharing requirement would hand a commercially valuable proprietary asset to telecom operators.

In one particularly odd interview, Norwood seems to malfunction and begin speaking Chinese.

UP.Labs, now doing business under the name Vantora, is building startups for industrial corporations.

AI leaders have been promising that AI is the key to curing human disease. Anthropic researchers have also been warning that AI might kill us all.

“It’s important for service members to understand the uncertainty inherent to LLMs," a GovAI research scholar warns.

Accenture is about to take on its most high-risk consulting engagement ever.

Jeremy Klaperman, the CFO of the company's WordPress VIP Enterprise business unit, will act as CFO for the time being.

Angle Health has grown to 5,000 customers and become profitable by helping small businesses get "level-funded" health insurance.

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This is The Stepback , a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on streaming platforms, FAST channels, and the future of entertainment, follow Charles Pulliam-Moore . The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here . How it started Before Netflix fully committed to becoming a streaming service and leaving DVDs behind , the company experimented with the idea of giving its subscribers a physical box that could access high-resolution digital copies of movies. Films would have been downloaded to the box in the evening and

Meta's Muse is apparently an effective AI assistant , but one that's a little creepy. Part of that is because of its new Mac app , which can access Messages, Calendar, and Notes. But for all its smarts, Muse doesn't actually know how to describe itself. Jason Aten, a contributing editor at Inc Magazine , posted on Threads screenshots of an interaction he had with Muse in which the assistant asks him some questions about a conversation he was having in Messages. The problem is that Aten says he didn't give Muse access to his messages. When asked how it

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on the tarmac before boarding Air Force One. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) | Getty Images On Friday, the president threatened to ban CNN, MS Now, and Politico from the White House. It could have just been another one of his Truth Social fever dreams, but it turns out it's very real. All three publications were turned away from the White House this morning, NPR reports , marking an escalation in the administration's war on the First Amendment. Politico tried to get to the bottom of it, asking why now ? It reports that

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The reliably Republican South Dakota senate seat has an incumbent on the ballot. But PACs associated with AI labs and investors have already spent more money on the race than actual residents have.

Anthropic’s CEO says that safety hinges on understanding how AI “thinks.” So far the evidence is disturbing.

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Across the world, organizations are partnering with Google Cloud to tackle their toughest challenges, drive digital transformation, and unlock new levels of growth. In Europe, organizations face unique and complex regulatory challenges. To ensure we're delivering the best possible value and experience for our customers here, we have established a new European Advisory Board. This distinguished group of leaders from across various industries will act as a vital feedback channel, help customers navigate complex regulatory landscapes, and foster a strong, sustainable digital economy. Their counsel is key to ensuring Google Cloud products not only meet but exceed European requirements, driving

AI and cloud technology are reshaping every corner of every industry around the world. Without our customers, there would be no Google Cloud, as they are the ones building the future on our platform. In this regular round-up , we dive into some of the exciting projects redefining businesses, shaping industries, and creating new categories. For our latest edition, we look into new research agents from Deutsche Bank and The Max Planck Institute ; helping devs strut their stuff with new databases for Rent the Runway ; mortgage lender Mr. Cooper ’s “team” of AI agents answering tough customer questions;

AI and cloud technology are reshaping every corner of every industry around the world. Without our customers, there would be no Google Cloud, as they are the ones building the future on our platform. In this regular round-up , we dive into some of the exciting projects redefining businesses, shaping industries, and creating new categories. For our latest edition, we explore Uber ’s revamped network with modern edge; smarter, AI-infused site search at Target ; a wicked fast blockchain built by Keeta Network ; HCA Healthcare empowers its nurses with a new AI-powered information portal; Deutche Telecom enhances its data

A year ago today, Google Cloud filed a formal complaint with the European Commission about Microsoft’s anti-competitive cloud licensing practices — specifically those that impose financial penalties on businesses that use Windows Server software on Azure’s biggest competitors. Despite regulatory scrutiny, it’s clear that Microsoft intends to keep its restrictive licensing policies in place for most cloud customers. In fact, it’s getting worse. As part of a recent earnings call, Microsoft disclosed that its efforts to force software customers to use Azure are “not anywhere close to the finish line,” and represented one of three pillars “driving [its] growth.” As

AI and cloud technology are reshaping every corner of every industry around the world. Without our customers, there would be no Google Cloud, as they are the ones building the future on our platform. In this regular round-up , we dive into some of the exciting projects redefining businesses, shaping industries, and creating new categories. For our latest edition, we explore Box’s AI agents extracting insights with cross-platform agent integration; Schroders uses multiple connected agents to build a complex investment research system; Hypros ’ IoT device can monitor patient distress in hospitals without individual monitoring; a Formula E exhibition of

There’s a buzz of excitement here at Tobacco Dock as we welcome our customers and partners to the Google Cloud Summit London. Together, we’re exploring the essential role Google Cloud is playing in driving AI innovation and adoption across the UK. Today is about shining a spotlight on our customers and partners, focusing on the real-world stories of how they are accelerating innovation, realising value, and reshaping entire industries with the powerful combination of AI agents and robust cloud infrastructure. The opportunity ahead is immense. AI is poised to inject more than £400 billion into the UK economy by 2030

AI and cloud technology are reshaping every corner of every industry around the world. Without our customers, there would be no Google Cloud, as they are the ones building the future on our platform. In this monthly round-up, we dive into some of the exciting projects redefining businesses, shaping industries, and creating new categories. For our inaugural edition, we explore Lowe’s new Visual Scout product recommendation engine powered by Vertex AI Vector Search; a responsive “Driver Agent” platform created by Formula E to bring more equity to the track; Ester AI, a conversational tool from wealth.com that can help financial

Week of Dec 16 - Dec 20 Windows Server 2025 is now available on Google Compute Engine. We are excited to announce the general availability of Windows Server 2025 on Google Compute Engine. You can now run Windows Server 2025 Data Center, and Windows Server 2025 Data Center Core editions as well as Windows SQL Server 2022 on Windows Server 2025 with pay-as-you-go licenses. Customers that don’t already have a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement can use the Google Compute Engine’s provided image to take advantage of Google Cloud’s relationships with Microsoft for pay-as-you-go licenses that scale with your workload and offers

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you know that 2024 was a busy year for Google Cloud. From AI to Zero Trust, and everything in between, here’s a chronological recap of our top blogs of 2024, according to readership. You’ll probably see some favorites on this list, and discover a few that you missed the first time around. January We started the new year strong, removing data transfer fees for anyone moving data off of our platform. Translation: Anyone doing cool things on Google Cloud (like using generative AI to analyze their microservices deployment) is doing it because

Over the past year, the pace of innovation across industries and around the world has been extraordinary. At Google, we're inspired by the public sector’s ingenuity and speed in adopting our AI and security innovations to achieve remarkable outcomes together. Since Google Cloud Next , we've launched more powerful versions of Gemini , rolled out Gemini Flash and Imagen 3 . And we're proud to showcase inspiring examples from the public sector, highlighting how organizations are leveraging generative AI to drive transformative change. From state agencies streamlining citizen services to healthcare providers improving patient outcomes and defense organizations enhancing mission

Editors note, November 28th, 2025: “We filed our antitrust complaint with the European Commission (EC) to give voice to our customers and partners about the issue of anticompetitive cloud licensing practices. Today, we are withdrawing it in light of the recent announcement that the EC will assess problematic practices affecting the cloud sector under a separate process. We stand behind the arguments outlined in the blog below, and we continue to work with policymakers, customers, and regulators across the EU, the UK, and elsewhere to advocate for choice and openness in the cloud market." - Giorgia Abeltino, Head of Government

Want to know the latest from Google Cloud? Find it here in one handy location. Check back regularly for our newest updates, announcements, resources, events, learning opportunities, and more. Tip : Not sure where to find what you’re looking for on the Google Cloud blog? Start here: Google Cloud blog 101: Full list of topics, links, and resources . Week of Dec 10 - Dec 15 Announcing Launch of Cross Cloud Materialized Views : To help customers on their cross-cloud analytics journey, today we are thrilled to announce the public preview of BigQuery Omni cross-cloud materialized views (aka cross-cloud MVs).

To our customers: At Google Cloud, we put your interests first. This means that when you choose to work with us, we become partners on a journey of shared innovation, shared support, and shared fate. We are committed to helping you evolve as technology advances, drawing on our depth of experience to ensure you can use the latest and best technology, while keeping you safe and protected. When it comes to the rapidly developing world of generative AI, this is imperative. Earlier this year, we embedded Duet AI — an always-on AI collaborator — across our products, from Google Workspace

Editor’s note : Jack Ngare is a Technical Director in Google Cloud’s Office of the CTO based in Nairobi, Kenya. A native of Kenya, he worked in telecommunications abroad for 12 years before returning home to work for a large African financial institution and a U.S. technology company. He joined Google Cloud last year with a mission to digitize and modernize Cloud’s global top customers, while simultaneously growing Africa's entrepreneurial technology culture. What is the opportunity you see before you? Working at Google Cloud, I’m able to bring people some of the world's best software and hardware engineering. I also

Editor’s note : Alicia Abella is the Managing Director for Telecommunications Industry Solutions at Google Cloud. The work involves bringing complex, advanced technology to businesses across diverse markets and cultures — from startups in Brazil to North America's largest telecommunications companies. The daughter of immigrants from Cuba, she has a PhD, 29 patents, and extensive experience running teams and working with customers. Did you always see yourself bringing new inventions into the world? No, not at all. I grew up in Queens, New York — the only child of Cuban immigrants. My parents worked hard and saved money so I

Welcome back. Apple's iPhone Duo makes the case that bigger screens are a lot more useful in the AI era, while the new AI audio features in the Apple Watch ask how much of our conversations AI should remember. Meanwhile, investors are pouring truckloads of money into AI startups at a dizzying pace, and while some of it is clearly FOMO, the smart money is chasing founders solving real problems, not just hitching their wagons to the hype. And in the most important signal in the industry right now, the CEOs of both Anthropic and OpenAI have said they are

Hello, friends. Small and medium-sized businesses stand to gain the most from AI. Often operating with lean teams where every employee wears many hats, AI can democratize valuable skills for these companies and create real impact. That’s the topic of this special weekend edition, presented in partnership with Rokt . Let us know what you think! — Nat Rubio-Licht How AI gives small businesses an edge AI is capable of giving anyone the tools to supercharge their productivity and try new things. For small and medium-sized businesses, that can be a lifeline. Guang Li, the general manager of Rokt Aftersell

Welcome back. Apple is racing into ambient AI with new Apple Watch features that listen in the background, testing the perception of convenience versus surveillance. New Ramp data suggests businesses are increasingly choosing cheaper, mid-tier AI models over the latest models from frontier AI labs, for cost reasons. Meanwhile, researchers inside Anthropic and OpenAI are arguing that safety is not keeping pace with rapidly advancing models, which is once again raising the question of whether the labs should slow down to establish unified safety standards. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Why warnings from inside AI labs are piling

Welcome back. Coursera's new AI platform, Project Helix, aims to fix corporate training by replacing generic content with adaptive learning and proof of skills. Meanwhile, Apple's September event showed AI woven into every new product it announced. For example, the Apple Watch's new Siri Recap and Live Rewind quietly turn it into an AI wearable. But the showstopper was the iPhone Duo, which I got to test hands-on and I believe points toward where every phone is headed within the next few years. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. iPhone Duo unfolds Apple's vision of the AI future 2.

Welcome back. Humanoid robots are still too expensive for most homes, but IFA made the future feel closer as AI accelerates developments in training. Meta is betting that its new Muse agent can become a trusted everyday assistant, but asking consumers to connect their most sensitive data puts Meta's privacy shortcomings in the spotlight. And OpenAI’s next model is already pushing beyond Astra, using thousands of agents to tackle one of mathematics’ hardest problems. The breakthrough is remarkable, but it also raises uncomfortable questions about whether the models are advancing faster than our ability to understand them. — Jason Hiner

Welcome back. AI agents are giving hackers a major speed boost, with Google’s latest threat report showing autonomous systems already scanning infrastructure, harvesting credentials, and compressing attacks into hours. Meanwhile, Arm is trying to bring more order to robotics and physical AI with a shared framework that could solve fragmentation and help the industry scale. And ahead of this week’s new iPhone unveiling, I look back at Apple’s strongest AI success story: photography. For a decade, Apple has used AI and ML to quietly improve the camera, offering a blueprint for how it could lead in AI. — Jason Hiner

Welcome back. OpenAI’s ChatGPT Work team joins our podcast to explain how agents and proactive AI will make prompting less central to the ways we use AI throughout the day. Google’s much-ballyhooed Rambler offers Wispr Flow-level speed and accuracy, but it's still missing the right tone by getting the punctuation wrong. And GPT-6 Astra raises the question of what happens when models become harder to monitor as they get smarter. With observability getting more challenging, OpenAI's chief scientist signals that it may be time to coordinate with other labs before control gets harder. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1.

Hello, friends. Granola’s new Apple Watch app uses a device people already have to make AI more useful. The app records in-person conversations with a tap, syncs notes across devices, and makes the recordings easy to access. Thanks to Granola for sponsoring today’s edition of The Deep View. Let us know what you think! — Jason Hiner Granola for face-to-face conversations. Now on Apple Watch. Some of the most important conversations happen away from your laptop. Brainstorming at a whiteboard. A walking one-on-one. Candid advice over coffee. A customer visit or an investor chat where opening a laptop would break

Welcome back. Nvidia’s $12.9 billion acquisition of Hugging Face is counting on the open model ecosystem scaling without losing independence, but that tension will be worth watching closely. OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra arrives as its most capable model yet, with a big focus on agentic work and professional tasks, plus tighter safeguards in light of the Hugging Face incident. And Nvidia is also pushing local AI forward on Windows, with new hardware and software that could narrow Apple’s lead in running models and agents on-device. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. OpenAI's Astra leans into agentic tasks and safety 2.

Welcome back. AI is getting cheaper and more capable, but that also raises the stakes for human judgment. Our conversation with Dataiku CEO Florian Douetteau explores why deciding what to build, and how to govern it, will be where value accrues. CrowdStrike is giving agents verifiable identities and defenders tools that operate at machine speed, but the most valuable thing it's giving enterprises is confidence. And with its new Gemini 3.8 Flash model, Google is once again counting on raw performance mattering less than delivering reliable intelligence at a fraction of the cost. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1.

Welcome back. Perplexity's new Hybrid Compute agent automatically routes sensitive tasks to local models while sending general tasks to frontier-class models in the cloud, a privacy-first approach other tech companies and AI labs look likely to emulate. CrowdStrike is tackling the growing fear of agents running amok with an aggressive three-part strategy for eliminating malicious AI activity before it spreads. And Anthropic's new Fable 5.1 model touts a big efficiency win that effectively cuts agentic workload costs by 45% without sacrificing performance. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Why Claude costs less in the new Fable 5.1 2. CrowdStrike

Welcome back. AI devices may be booming, but too many of them duplicate what your smartphone already does. The category needs to get a lot more ambitious. Speaking of ambitious, Physical Superintelligence is using AI-driven physics to optimize infrastructure and solve some of the key roadblocks to interstellar travel. And as frontier models make cyberattacks faster and cheaper, Cloudflare is solving the problem by changing the economics. Its Adaptive Intelligence continuously learns from live traffic, creating a moving target designed to make automated attacks slower, harder and a lot more expensive for hackers. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1.

Welcome back. Google is turning your ebooks into AI context inside Gemini Notebook, a move that could make grounded, source-based AI more useful if it expands to Kindle and other ebook sources. AMD is making an AI infrastructure bet that openness and customer choice can loosen Nvidia’s grip on the AI stack as hardware economics get more challenging. Meanwhile, the data centers powering all of this are becoming AI’s political flashpoint, as public opposition hardens against AI factories. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. The AI boom can’t outrun public opposition 2. How Google is turning books into AI

Welcome back. With frontier model capabilities racing ahead at a rapid clip, Replit becomes the latest company to embrace efficiency and cost over power with its model routing service. And a recent model release from Cohere tells a similar story: using niche models for specific tasks may prove better results. Meanwhile, Agility Robotics CTO Pras Velagapudi discusses how the company has found success targeting manufacturing as the first big niche for humanoid robots. — Nat Rubio-Licht IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Why AI’s future may belong to niche models 2. Inside Agility's bet on factory-first humanoids 3. As models commoditize, Replit

Welcome back. Open models are gaining ground as enterprises chase lower costs, more control and better privacy. Nvidia’s reported $12.9 billion deal for Hugging Face would allow it to play a central role in the future of the open model ecosystem. At the same time, more than 100 leading tech companies warn that AI-enabled cyberattacks are advancing faster than our defenses, and they are united in calling for an urgent, industry-wide response. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Nvidia’s Hugging Face bet is bigger than models 2. Why AI rivals are uniting to prevent cyber crisis 3. The economics