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Discussions are still in the early stages, but Google and Claude creator Anthropic are considering a cloud agreement worth tens of billions of dollars. This would allow Anthropic to use Google's AI computing power. Google, itself an investor in Anthropic, would already see a significant return on its investment under the agreement. It has invested approximately $3 billion in two investment rounds in the AI company.

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Google on Thursday launched a comprehensive AI platform for businesses called Gemini Enterprise, the latest effort by the Alphabet-owned company to compete with Anthropic and OpenAI in the fast-growing market for workplace AI tools. As part of the launch, Google announced several new Gemini Enterprise customers, including the software design firm Figma; the buy-now-pay-later company Klarna; the foodservice distributor Gordon Foods; Australian retail bank Macquarie Bank; and Virgin Voyages,

Jules is intended as an 'asynchronous' coding agent, capable of working in the background alongside developers to write coding tests, fix bugs, and apply version updates across code. Users working with the agent can delegate complex coding tasks based on project goals, marking a contrast to manually-operated vibe coding models and AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot or Google Code Assist.

Google Cloud is enhancing security with AI by creating a new integrated security operations center (SOC) that automates workflows for alert triage, investigation, and response.

Wells Fargo's adoption of Google Agentspace marks a bold step forward in making banking simpler and smarter—for our customers and employees. By leveraging advanced agentic AI capabilities, we can get answers and insights faster, work more efficiently, and free up time to focus on what matters most: helping people reach their financial goals.

Google Cloud is offering organizations the option to keep Gemini 2.5 Flash machine learning processing entirely within the UK to address data sovereignty concerns. This allows customers to select the UK region for data storage and processing, which is crucial for sectors like financial services that warrant local data compliance.

"It's an agreement that recognises our value...as a huge client of their organisation, and how important their technology is to help us deliver changes to public services, to make them more in touch, more in tune and better value for money for taxpayers."

At around 11:30 a.m. PT, Downdetector showed over 13,000 reported incidents for Google Cloud. A wide array of cloud services are down.

Crayon's partnership expansion with Google Cloud aims to enhance mid-market distribution, focusing on AI capabilities for channel partners and resellers.