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Google Cloud services experienced a severe outage worldwide, causing many large internet services to become paralyzed or interrupted. The wide impact of this outage left many users frustrated. According to Google Cloud's status page, the fault occurred at 10:51 AM Pacific Time, after which the Google Cloud team immediately initiated an investigation into the issue. Image source notes: The image is generated by AI, and the image license service provider Midjourney was affected after the incident. Google engineers stated that they are continuously making efforts to restore the service. However, as time went on...

Recently, a serious global outage occurred in the Google Cloud service, affecting several large internet platforms including OpenAI and Shopify. This downtime impacted users in the United States, Europe, and Asia, with 13 core services from Google Cloud experiencing failures, causing many users to be unable to access these services normally. This has caused significant disruptions to business operations. The specific cause of the outage is currently unclear, and Google has stated it is investigating the issue and working to restore services, but no specific repair timeline has been provided yet. This incident has triggered concerns among users.

Google's DeepMind employees in the UK are actively pursuing unionization to oppose the company's decision to sell AI technology to military contractors and its collaborations with the Israeli government. Approximately 300 London-based DeepMind employees have reportedly applied to join the Communication Workers Union (CWU), hoping to leverage collective bargaining to influence the company's commercialization strategy. Google's push for DeepMind to find commercial applications for its technology has sparked...

Google Cloud has announced the launch of its new open-source Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol, designed to break down barriers between AI agents. This allows for seamless collaboration and information exchange between AI agents built by different vendors and using different frameworks. This initiative marks a significant step towards a more open, efficient, and intelligent AI landscape. Enabling free-flowing communication between agents is crucial as enterprise adoption of autonomous AI agents grows. The A2A protocol addresses the challenge of coordinating these agents to work together in complex enterprise environments, handling cross-system processes.

Alphabet Inc., Google's parent company, recently reaffirmed its capital expenditure plan of approximately $75 billion for 2023. This investment aims to expand data centers and acquire necessary chips and servers to support core business enhancements and the development of artificial intelligence (AI) services. Sundar Pichai, Alphabet's CEO, detailed the plan at Google Cloud's annual conference. Image note: Image generated by AI, image licensing service Mi.

In the digital transformation of Thailand's retail industry, Central Food Retail Group is reshaping the shopping ecosystem with artificial intelligence. The company has partnered with Google Cloud to launch the 'Tops Chef Bot', Thailand's first generative AI-powered shopping assistant. This innovative product, dubbed the 'Chef Robot', is not just a simple shopping tool; it represents a significant attempt in retail technology. It deeply integrates Google Cloud's data analytics, generative AI, and enterprise search engine capabilities with the supermarket's personalized shopping services, aiming to provide consumers with a superior experience.

The latest research released by Google Cloud indicates that UK public services are under increasing pressure due to challenges such as tight budgets and staff shortages. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform the public sector by automating administrative tasks and improving service delivery. At the Google Cloud Public Sector Summit held in London, Iain Burgess, Director of Public Sector at Google Cloud UKI, pointed out that AI, particularly generative AI, can automate up to one-third of routine tasks within the public sector. He also stated, 'From tight budgets and staff shortages to substitutes...'

In today's highly competitive cloud computing market, Google Cloud has recently announced the launch of a new AI agent ecosystem project - AI Agent Space. With competitors like Microsoft and Amazon continuously rolling out innovative tools, Google's initiative aims to help businesses better discover, deploy, and co-create AI agents to achieve task automation, enhance customer experience, and optimize operational efficiency. The launch of AI Agent Space marks Google Cloud's further expansion in the enterprise service sector. Through this new ecosystem, Google aims to...

Li Feifei's startup World Labs announced an agreement with Google Cloud to choose Google Cloud as its primary computing provider for training AI models. The deal could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. World Labs will utilize the GPU server capabilities on the Google Cloud platform to provide computational services for its large multimodal AI models. The company's AI model is referred to as 'Spatial Intelligence', capable of processing and managing various data.

AI startup Magic has completed a $320 million funding round, with participation from Eric Schmidt, Alphabet's CapitalG, and investors like Atlassian, bringing the total funding close to $500 million. Magic focuses on AI model development aimed at generating code and automating software development tasks, featuring an exceptionally long context window of up to 100 million tokens, surpassing current commercial models. Magic plans to collaborate with Google Cloud to build two supercomputers to enhance

A survey by Google Cloud and the National Research Group highlights the significant impact of generative AI on enterprise ROI. Among global companies surveyed, 61% adopted generative AI, with 74% achieving returns within a year and 86% reporting revenue growth exceeding 6%. AI is seen as a key driver of business growth, particularly in customer service, productivity enhancement, and process optimization, leading to a 45% overall productivity incr....

Google Cloud has collaborated with Y Combinator to offer AI startups $350,000 worth of cloud computing resources, including dedicated GPU/TPU clusters, for a period of two years. This initiative aims to foster AI innovation by prioritizing access to computing resources and facilitating one-on-one discussions with AI experts, helping startups tackle technical challenges and promote their growth. The partnership seeks to nurture future tech giants, with Google aiming to establish long-term relationships through early support. This collaboration not only addresses the computing resource needs of startups.

Google's parent company, Alphabet, is preparing for a major acquisition. According to The Wall Street Journal, Alphabet is in deep negotiations with cloud security company Wiz, with the deal potentially valued at $23 billion, which could become the largest acquisition in Alphabet's history.Wiz specializes in providing comprehensive cloud security solutions, capable of collecting data from major cloud platforms and conducting security risk analysis. Industry insiders believe this move aims to str

Motorola and Google Cloud recently announced a new multi-year partnership to bring Google's generative AI models to Motorola phones, including the new series of Razr smartphones.

Essential AI and Google Cloud announce a multi-year partnership to streamline the development of full-stack generative AI products. Essential AI will utilize Google Cloud's TPU v5p for model training to provide customized large language models. In this collaboration, Essential AI will leverage Google Cloud's global infrastructure and advanced analytics tools, including BigQuery, Looker, and Google Analytics.