Just a year ago, the narrative around Google and enterprise AI felt stuck. But witness the scene at Google Cloud Next 2025 in Las Vegas last week: a confident Google, armed with benchmark-topping models, formidable infrastructure, and a cohesive enterprise strategy, declaring a stunning turnaround. 

If AI is supposed to supercharge productivity, why are startups raising more money? Shouldn’t they need less?

Sridhar Vembu says IT’s great reckoning is here; calls for fresh thinking.

A new agentic approach called “streams” will let AI models learn from the experience of the environment without human “pre-judgment.”

Is Mechanize working to replace every human worker with an AI agent bot? Essentially, yes. The startup wants to provide the data, evaluations, and digital environments to make worker automation of any job possible.

Combination of bad attitude, clever tech and more rights for workers makes hiring youngsters less attractive to bosses.  “Even the Victorians had a stronger apprenticeship system.”

MIT economist Sendhil Mullainathan makes the point that AI isn’t a thing that is happening to humans but a thing that humans are making. We have a choice about what kind of technology it becomes.

The IT projects that are being cut to make room for AI.  

With unapproved AI tools entrenched in daily workflows, experts say it’s time to shift from monitoring to managing shadow AI use across the enterprise.

"It is like the ultimate librarian that knows how to find the information.”

The retail giant plans to phase out traditional checkouts across its 600 stores.

Bain: From discovery to decision, large language models are starting to gatekeep the marketing funnel, so brand stewards must learn to speak their language.

This is the most effective explanation we've encountered so far on clarifying what agents are and demonstrating how to develop them for different use cases. 

AI is graduating from recognition to reasoning—and organizations must follow suit by scaling their computing power with purpose-built AI infrastructure.

Massive Blue is helping cops deploy AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters.”