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Google bets on nuclear power to drive AI expansion

Network World

Google has signed its first corporate deal to purchase power from multiple small modular reactors (SMRs) to meet the energy needs of its AI systems, marking a key step as AI companies shift toward nuclear power. Nuclear power provides a consistent energy source, unlike renewables, which depend on the availability of sun or wind,” Ranjan said.

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Kyndryl extends Google Cloud partnership for AI-based mainframe modernization

Network World

Kyndryl and Google Cloud are expanding their partnership to help customers use generative AI to move data off the mainframe and into the cloud. Googles Gemini LLMs are integrated into the Google Cloud platform and offer AI-based help across services and workflows, Google stated.

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Google, Microsoft could turn gatekeepers for advanced AI chips

Network World

The US government could designate cloud providers including Google and Microsoft as global gatekeepers for advanced AI chips, a step widely viewed as the latest effort to block Chinas access to this critical technology, according to a Reuters report. This would ensure their growth wont be hampered globally.

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Google claims breakthrough with Willow quantum computing chip but no real-world use yet

Network World

Googles announcement on Monday of its new quantum chip, called Willow, was full of eye-catching statements. That number exceeds known timescales and physics and vastly exceeds the age of the universe, says Hartmut Neven, founder and lead at Google Quantum AI, in the announcement. And then theres error correction.

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Why Distributed Tracing is Essential for Performance and Reliability

Speaker: Daniel "spoons" Spoonhower, CTO and Co-Founder at Lightstep

Together these have enabled individual service teams to become more independent and, as a result, have boosted developer velocity. Distributed tracing was developed at organizations like Google and Twitter to address these problems and has also come a long way in the decade since then.

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Google claims quantum leap with new Willow chip

CIO Business Intelligence

According to Hartmut Neven , founder and head of Googles Quantum AI Lab, Google has achieved two decisive improvements with its new quantum chip Willow: First, Willow can reduce errors exponentially when scaling with more qubits, thus overcoming a central challenge in quantum error correction that has been worked on for almost 30 years.

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Salesforce and Google expand partnership to bring Agentforce, Gemini together

CIO Business Intelligence

Salesforce and Google expanded their strategic partnership on Monday to enable Salesforce customers to use Google Gemini to build Salesforce Agentforce AI agents and to deploy Salesforce on Google Cloud.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.