Google Cloud surpasses $20B but says growth was capacity-constrained

Pay.sh shows x402 moving from unauthorized API wrappers toward native integrations, with Google Cloud anchoring Solana's gateway to agentic payments.

Cloudflare has announced its first-ever mass layoff, cutting approximately 1,100 employees — 20% of its workforce — as it reported record quarterly revenue of $639.8 million, a 34% year-over-year increase. Co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince and co-founder and president Michelle Zatlyn framed the cuts not as cost reduction but as a structural response to AI-driven productivity gains. Prince said […]

Google plans to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic, Bloomberg reported, with an initial $10 billion commitment at a $350 billion valuation and a further $30 billion contingent on performance targets. The deal expands an existing infrastructure relationship, with Google Cloud now providing Anthropic with a fresh five gigawatts of computing capacity over five […]

Thomas Kurian, Google Cloud’s CEO, says its AI chips and models can help the data centre business gain ground

New Google Cloud Managed Lustre capabilities with DDN EXAScaler improves AI training, inference, and high-performance computing, delivering scale, performance, and economics LAS VEGAS, April 23, 2026 — DDN has shared new […] The post DDN Expands Google Cloud Managed Lustre for AI and HPC Workloads appeared first on AIwire.

Google's newest TPUs are faster and cheaper than the previous versions. But the company is still embracing Nvidia in its cloud — for now.

April 22, 2026 — NVIDIA and Google Cloud have collaborated for more than a decade, co‑engineering a full‑stack AI platform that spans every technology layer — from performance‑optimized libraries and frameworks […] The post NVIDIA and Google Cloud Collaborate to Advance Agentic and Physical AI appeared first on AIwire.

Google wants its Chat app to become the main interface for office workers to interact with AI agents within its Workspace suite. “We’re making Chat the centerpiece through which people talk, not just with other people, but with all their agents, whether they are in Workspace or built on our platform,” Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said in a briefing on the company’s plans.  The Ask Gemini in Chat feature — generally available now — also allows Workspace users to interact with third-party tools such as Asana, Jira, and Salesforce, Google said in a blog post. Ask Gemini in Chat provides a “daily briefing” that highlights action items, unread message threads, and tasks to complete. It can also act on behalf of a user, generating documents and slides, scheduling meetings, and retrieving files, for instance. Irwin Lazar, principal analyst at Metrigy, said the addition of Ask Gemini in Chat highlights Google’s efforts to compete more directly with Microsoft Teams. “Today, chat is the primar