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The cloud giants have been outdoing one another in the race to offer the latest/greatest AI tech, marked by foundational models of ever-increasing capabilities. For the new Llama 4 "herd" of models from Meta, AWS, Microsoft and Google all announced same-day support -- on a Saturday.
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Since its launch last November, the Model Context Protocol from Anthropic has gone viral, generating buzz as a simple, standardized way to connect language models with tools and data. Now, Google has introduced another protocol to further agentic AI, called Agent2Agent (A2A), designed to facilitate communication among AI agents.
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With a new Audio Overviews feature announced Monday, Google's Gemini AI app can now create a professional-looking Deep Research report and turn it into a professional-sounding two-person AI podcast discussion in minutes, all for free.
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For disaster recovery, Amazon recently introduced a time-based copy feature that allows you to tie the Amazon Machine Image (AMI) copy duration to your Recovery Time Objective (RTO).
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The cloud giant AI wars are heating up with Google announcing its Gemini 2.5 model and Amazon countering with the launch of Amazon Nova Act for running AI in the browser, part of an access expansion of the Nova AI ecosystem.
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In announcing new Microsoft Security Copilot agents and other new protections for AI, the company revealed upcoming Defender coverage for the Google Cloud Platform.
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Amid reports of suicides following AI interactions and a false accusation by an AI system that a man committed murder, OpenAI has published a research report on human emotional engagement with its ChatGPT chatbot.
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With cloud computing and AI being natural partners, it's not surprising that AI hardware powerhouse NVIDIA's big GTC 2025 conference featured several cloud partnerships.
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"Around 2/3 of executives say generative AI adoption has led to tension and division. 42% say it's tearing their company apart."
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Microsoft used its expensive partnership with OpenAI to leverage advanced AI in coding, search and just about everywhere else, but Google has been just as adamant in defending its search hegemony with advanced AI.
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"You can accelerate innovation and deliver tangible business value with DeepSeek on AWS without having to manage infrastructure complexities."
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One interesting trend in a new report from Wiz about AI in the cloud is the disruption caused by the arrival of a DeepSeek model that caused an uptick in self-hosted models, industry backlash and usage restrictions.
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After Microsoft seized on its OpenAI partnership to establish a solid leadership position in the cloud AI space, and Google quickly declared a "code red" emergency to catch up with first Bard and then Gemini, Amazon wasn't making as much news in AI. That has changed.
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Google opened up access to Gemini 2.0, a significant update to its flagship AI, targeting enterprise users and developers with enhanced multimodal capabilities and improved performance.
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GenAI dominates the new Nutanix Cloud Index, the latest in a years-long series of surveys the hybrid multicloud specialist publishes to measure global enterprise progress with cloud adoption. The 2025 report published today reveals that GenAI is changing organizations' priorities, with security and privacy being a primary concern.
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The Cloud Security Alliance has weighed in on the debut of revolutionary and controversial DeepSeek AI with strategic implications and action items just as a report was published on data leakage from the platform.
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Microsoft, Amazon and Google have all embraced new open-source DeepSeek AI technology from a Chinese company, despite its usage being banned by many organizations due to concerns about data security, privacy, compliance, and national security risks.
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Tech organizations and companies blasted this week's AI moves by the Biden administration, with Nvidia slamming the U.S. president's actions and comparing current government policies unfavorably with those of president-elect Donald Trump.
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A new survey-based report from cloud security specialist Netskope explores cybersecurity threats, including the dangers of GenAI and the related apps that are most often blocked from employee use by organizations.
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"The term 'metaverse' has weathered a significant hype cycle, where inconsistent definitions led to confusion and premature declarations of its demise" -- Metaverse Standards Forum
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The "Responsible AI" movement seeks to help organizations build and maintain trust with users, stakeholders and society at large -- and maybe even avoid those pesky "AI-Kills-Humanity" scenarios -- but a new report indicates it just makes good business sense, too.
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Five online systems generate surprisingly similar predictions around multimodal, agents and the usual suspects.
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Paul Schnackenburg dives deep into how Microsoft Purview has prioritized data governance and security features to address the challenges of oversharing and lax permissions exposed by M365 Copilot.
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Since the dawn of advanced generative AI the new tech has been used by both threat actors and security defenders, with a new survey examining that double-edged security sword and finding many execs predict more cybersecurity issues.
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"By 2027, AI assistants and AI-enhanced workflows incorporated into data integration tools will reduce manual intervention by 60 percent and enable self-service data management."