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Artificial Intelligence

Google’s Big Bet: Up to $40 Billion Headed to Anthropic

Google is preparing to invest a headline-grabbing sum in Anthropic — at least $10 billion, with the potential to rise to $40 billion if the startup meets certain performance milestones. The deal follows a recent $5 billion commitment from Amazon and collectively values Anthropic at roughly $350 billion. This funding round underscores how hyperscalers are using capital, cloud services, and specialized chips to forge strategic ties with AI startups that…

Saugata DattaApr 26, 20263 min read337

Cloud Computing

Google Maps Gets a Big Dose of Generative AI — What It Means for Enterprises

Google’s mapping products are getting a clear enterprise tilt with a suite of new generative AI features announced at Cloud Next. Rather than small consumer-facing tweaks, these updates add capabilities for visualizing hypothetical scenes, accelerating satellite and aerial imagery analysis, and delivering pre-trained geospatial models that can identify infrastructure elements. For organizations that rely on maps and imagery—urban planners, construction firms, emergency responders and large enterprises—these changes promise faster workflows…

Saugata DattaApr 22, 20264 min read393

Cloud Computing

Google Cloud and Wiz Turn Defense Into an Agentic Response to AI-Powered Attacks

Attackers and defenders are now playing with the same toys: powerful AI models that can find and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities in hours. At Google Cloud Next ’26, Google and Wiz unveiled a set of AI-driven defenses designed to shrink the time between discovery and remediation — and to automate much of the manual work that has left security teams lagging behind. Together, the announcements signal a shift toward agentic, cross-cloud…

Saugata DattaApr 22, 20265 min read395

Artificial Intelligence

Anthropic and Amazon Expand Partnership, Securing Up to 5GW of Compute for Claude

Anthropic announced on April 20, 2026, a major expansion of its collaboration with Amazon that will secure up to 5 gigawatts (GW) of new compute capacity to train and deploy Claude. The agreement accelerates capacity coming online this year and ties together deeper infrastructure, platform integration, and additional capital investment — steps Anthropic says are needed to meet surging customer demand and keep Claude reliable at scale. What the agreement…

Saugata DattaApr 21, 20264 min read489

Azure

Windows 11 Dev Build 26300.8170 Brings Clearer Secure Boot Visibility and Bigger FAT32 Drives

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Insider Preview for the Dev Channel, build 26300.8170, focuses on practical visibility and storage usability rather than flashy new features. For security-minded users and administrators, the standout change is a revamped Secure Boot display in Windows Security that finally gives clear, at-a-glance information about firmware-level protections and certificate health. Complementing that, the build addresses long-standing storage annoyances—most notably removing the 32GB FAT32 formatting limit via command…

Saugata DattaApr 20, 20264 min read331

Artificial Intelligence

Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 Arrives in Amazon Bedrock — Smarter Coding, Vision, and 1M-Token Context

Amazon Bedrock now offers Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7, a major upgrade aimed at production-grade workflows that demand stronger reasoning, longer context windows, and more reliable scaling. Opus 4.7 builds on the Opus family’s strengths and targets real-world use cases such as agentic coding, multi-step knowledge work, long-running tasks, and high-resolution visual understanding. Running on Bedrock’s next-generation inference engine, the model is positioned for enterprise deployments where performance, privacy, and availability…

Saugata DattaApr 16, 20263 min read531

Artificial Intelligence

Google brings “Skills” to Chrome so Gemini prompts are instantly reusable

Chrome is getting another nudge toward becoming the home for Google’s AI toolbox. This spring Google introduced “Skills,” a way to save Gemini prompts inside the browser so common queries and workflows can be retriggered with a click. Rather than retyping or copy‑pasting a prompt each time you want Gemini to perform a task, Skills let you store and reuse those instructions across tabs and devices, speeding up repeatable tasks…

Saugata DattaApr 15, 20264 min read474

Cloud Computing

A2A Protocol Surpasses 150 Organizations and Lands in Major Cloud Platforms in Its First Year

A2A Protocol has marked an impressive set of milestones within its inaugural year: the project reports onboarding more than 150 organizations, gaining placement in major cloud platforms’ marketplaces, and achieving enterprise production usage. Those three developments—rapid partner growth, cloud distribution, and real-world enterprise deployments—are meaningful indicators that A2A is moving beyond early experimentation and into practical, scalable use. Why these milestones matter Growing to 150 organizations in under a year…

Saugata DattaApr 9, 20263 min read566

Cloud Computing

Google Lets You Change Your @gmail.com Address — Here’s How to Do It Safely

For more than twenty years, the email address you chose when creating a Google Account was effectively permanent. That meant awkward childhood handles, name changes after marriage, or simply wanting a cleaner, more professional address often required creating a brand-new Google Account and manually migrating data. Google has quietly changed that rule: users with @gmail.com addresses can now replace their existing username with a new @gmail.com handle while keeping the…

Saugata DattaApr 1, 20264 min read524

Cloud Computing

Google Says Q-Day Could Arrive by 2029 — Why the Race to Post‑Quantum Cryptography Just Got Real

Google has set a new, sharper deadline for what the industry calls “Q‑Day” — the moment when quantum computers will be powerful enough to break the public-key cryptography that underpins most of today’s secure communications. In a recent post, Google’s security and cryptography leads gave themselves until 2029 to be ready, and urged the rest of the world to accelerate adoption of post‑quantum cryptography (PQC). That deadline is notably sooner…

Saugata DattaMar 27, 20265 min read545

Artificial Intelligence

Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Leak: When Pre-Release Secrets Meet Cybersecurity Risk

Anthropic recently found itself at the center of an avoidable but consequential security incident: leaked internal drafts revealing the existence of an unreleased, high-capability model called "Claude Mythos." The exposure—rooted in an unsecured, publicly searchable data cache—pulled back the curtain on product plans, internal risk assessments, and even references to an exclusive executive event. For organizations building powerful AI, the episode is a sharp reminder that operational security and model…

Saugata DattaMar 27, 20264 min read623

Cloud Computing

AstraZeneca Allegedly Targeted by LAPSUS$ — Claims of a 3GB Internal Data Dump

A known hacking collective identifying as LAPSUS$ has posted claims that it obtained and is attempting to sell a 3GB .tar.gz archive allegedly containing AstraZeneca internal data. As of the reports dated March 20, 2026, AstraZeneca had not issued a public statement confirming or denying the claim. What the threat actors presented The actors published teasers and screenshots on breach forums and offered password-protected paste samples as proof. They reportedly…

Saugata DattaMar 23, 20262 min read626

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