Google to build data hub on Australia’s Christmas Island tied to new subsea cables

OpenAI, Anthropic, Block and major cloud providers are co-founding the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation to steward open, interoperable standards for AI agents.

OpenAI→Anthropic→Block→Google→Microsoft→Amazon Web Services→Bloomberg→Cloudflare→Cisco→Agentic AI Foundation

Founding members created the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation to fund and govern open standards like MCP, goose and AGENTS.md for interoperable agentic AI.

Anthropic→OpenAI→Block→Google→Microsoft→Amazon Web Services→Bloomberg→Cloudflare→Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF)

Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation and Kyivstar partnered with Google’s Gemma and Vertex AI infrastructure to develop a national large language model for government and commercial use.

Google→Kyivstar→Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine

Google participates in Cursor's $2.3B Series D round

Google→Cursor

Accel, Thrive, a16z, Nvidia, and Google invest $2.3B in Cursor at $29.3B valuation

Accel→Cursor