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This is the company's largest acquisition in its history. Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian reached out to employees telling them «why, and why now» in internal memos, as per Business Insider. An email was sent to Google staff on Tuesday in which the tech giant's top bosses explained why the company plans to spend $32 billion to acquire the cybersecurity startup, which marked the year's biggest deal so far — and the biggest deal of all time for Alphabet. ALSO READ: Trump's big crackdown on University of Pennsylvania over trans athlete policy: Story in 10 points

Google sweetened its original offer for $23 billion in July to $32 billion, making it one of the largest tech deals ever, and dramatically upped the breakup fee to more than $3.2 billion, people familiar with the agreement said. But the real closer for Wiz and Google executives was the change at the White House that brought with it the prospect of a friendlier antitrust review under Trump, these people said. Google made another pass last fall while Wiz considered a potential IPO, these people said. While negotiations continued sporadically over several months, executives started meeting regularly to hammer out details of a deal after Trump's Jan. 20 inauguration and appointment of key antitrust officials in his administration, these people said.

Google is providing key capabilities for an artificial intelligence assistant for Volkswagen drivers in a smartphone app, part of Google's strategy to win business by offering tools to build enterprise AI applications. Consumers can ask Volkswagen's in-app assistant questions like «How do I change a flat tire?» or point their phone cameras at vehicle dashboards to receive relevant information. The AI assistant draws on Google's Gemini large language models, programs that can understand and generate predictive responses to human language, and cloud computing capacity.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. German sportswear-maker Puma is tapping generative AI for its branding and online sales efforts, part of an expanded partnership with Google Cloud, the company said Tuesday. Puma said it has already deployed Google Cloud’s Imagen 2 model to help it craft personalized website images corresponding to the locations of some online shoppers.

That cybersecurity and its failures can impact large parts of the world was evident on Friday, when Microsoft’s Azure outage—reported to be on account of CrowdStrike, Azure’s first line of cyber defence—left large numbers of computer users staring at blue screens that did not budge, preventing work. It brought airlines, media houses and banks (among others) to their knees in diverse markets, including India. So crucial is cybersecurity now in the tech world that Google’s parent Alphabet wants to acquire Wiz, a cybersecurity startup, as New York Times reported, even if that exposes it to antitrust scrutiny from regulators worldwide.

Also read: The cloud is building; will TCS, Infosys, Wipro get showers of joy? Airtel will also leverage Google Cloud’s generative AI capabilities to transform its customer experiences and interactions across mobile, broadband and digital TV, and to streamline its internal processes and operations. Airtel will also extend these capabilities to its B2B customers in India and around the world.

Google made big bang announcements on Tuesday to make cloud computing more affordable and monetise its cloud offerings. Among several key AI-based product launches and use case demos, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian, at its annual Google Cloud Next 2024 in Las Vegas, announced Axion Processor, its first custom Arm-based (ARM) chip or central processing unit (CPU) designed for data centres.

The company, the world’s fourth biggest by market value, is also close to setting up two centers of excellence around artificial intelligence and cyber security with the government, Google’s global chief of cloud, Thomas Kurian, told ET in an interview.

corporate Gmail accounts at an additional cost of $30 a month per person, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. The announcement is set to be made by Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian at the company's annual cloud conference in San Francisco later in the day, the report said. Alphabet did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

Alphabet’s (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google is finally stepping into the realm of AI technology sales in a bid to catch up in the highly lucrative cloud software market.

Google’s earliest and most senior employees will step back from an executive management role, in a shakeup of the company’s cloud unit, according to CNBC. Urs Holzle joined the company, now the key unit of parent Alphabet Inc., in 1999 as its eighth employee, and will now transition into a role as an “individual contributor” after more than two decades of leading technical teams, CNBC reported, citing an internal email from Google Cloud Chief Executive Officer Thomas Kurian.

An artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot dubbed "Wendy’s FreshAI," will take orders from Wendy's drive-thru customers after the fast-food chain partnered with Google Cloud to create the bot.

Under the deal, Google Cloud will become Deutsche Börse Group’s preferred partner for cloud consumption for the next ten years with a focus on accelerating development of the exchange's DLT-based digital securities platform D7. The D7 platform will be underpinned by Google Cloud’s secure infrastructure and will have an intelligent data analytics layer via Google Cloud’s BigQuery and Analytics Hub. The partnership also seeks to innovate Deutsche Börse Group’s digital asset business with an institutional-grade offering, including a Digital Assets Business Platform with a cloud-native market infrastructure, combining centralized and decentralized financial infrastructure to deliver crypto spot and derivatives products. The German exchange says it aims to expand these capabilities to further asset classes over time. Additionally, the two companies plan to jointly deploy a data mesh for several of Deutsche Börse Group’s data distribution and data use cases in the cloud. Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, comments: “Our partnership with Deutsche Börse Group underscores the wide range of opportunities and benefits that secure and reliable cloud technology, data analytics, and AI can have for all market participants.”

The D7 platform will be underpinned by Google Cloud’s secure infrastructure and will have an intelligent data analytics layer via Google Cloud’s BigQuery and Analytics Hub.The partnership also seeks to innovate Deutsche Börse Group’s digital asset business with an institutional-grade offering, including a Digital Assets Business Platform with a cloud-native market infrastructure, combining centralized and decentralized financial infrastructure to deliver crypto spot and derivatives products. The German exchange says it aims to expand these capabilities to further asset classes over time.

Google has teamed up with crypto exchange Coinbase to allow some of its clients to pay for cloud services using cryptocurrencies.

Tech giant Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL) has partnered with Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) to allow users to pay for cloud services using crypto. A select group of customers will now be able to make payments with Bitcoin, Ether, and Dogecoin. In response to the news, Coinbase's stock rose over 7%.