Google invests an undisclosed sum in Sakana AI, valued at $2.6B in November 2025, to boost Gemini's presence in Japan; Sakana AI gains access to Google's LLMs
Google joined Japanese startup Sakana AI's roster of backers in a move that bolsters chatbot Gemini's presence in a country eager …
Source: Apple's Gemini deal is a cloud contract where it pays Google several billion dollars; a source says OpenAI declined to be Apple's custom model provider
Multibillion-dollar deal to secure Gemini models reflects cautious approach to infrastructure spending
Apple signs a multiyear Google deal to use Gemini and Google Cloud to power Siri's features in 2026, saying Google's tech “provides the most capable foundation”
- Apple is teaming up with Google to use Gemini models for an AI-powered Siri
Walmart partners with Google to offer AI-enhanced shopping, allowing users to purchase Walmart and Sam's Club items directly on Gemini
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Walmart partners with Google to offer AI-enhanced shopping, allowing users to purchase Walmart and Sam's Club items directly on Gemini
Walmart Inc. is partnering with Alphabet Inc. to offer AI-enhanced shopping on Google's Gemini platform — part of the retailer's race to apply the technology across its operations.
The Pentagon partners with xAI to embed the company's frontier AI systems, based on the Grok family of models, directly into GenAI.mil as soon as early 2026
Second concerning thought: That already happened with DOGE. @therao : The dude writes exceptions based on his whims into its core. The shittiest AI out there and it's military. That won't end well. ...
Starcloud, which launched a satellite with a Nvidia H100 chip in November, says the satellite is running and querying responses from Google's Gemma
Nvidia-backed startup Starcloud trained an artificial intelligence model from space for the first time, signaling a new era for orbital data centers … X: @philipjohnston X: Philip Johnston / @philipjo...
The US DOD says it has chosen Google's new GenAI.mil platform to help the US military quickly analyze video and imagery, as part of a $200M contract from July
The Defense Department said it has chosen Alphabet Inc.'s Gemini for Government system to deliver artificial intelligence capability …
Eli Lilly partners with Nvidia to build what the companies say will be the most powerful supercomputer run by a pharma company, powered by 1,000+ Blackwell GPUs
1,000+ Blackwell chips for drug discovery, trials, and manufacturing. [image] Chris Gibson / @recursionchris : Vibes today @RecursionPharma... https://www.cnbc.com/... But in all seriousness, a huge k...
Mercor launches the AI Productivity Index (APEX), which evaluates AI models' ability to perform “economically valuable knowledge work”; GPT-5 leads at 64.2%
still not production-ready Nikita Ostrovsky / Time : AI Is Learning to Do the Jobs of Doctors, Lawyers, and Consultants arXiv.org : The AI Productivity Index (APEX) Agnee Ghosh / Bloomberg : OpenAI, A...