Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology:
Q&A with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on Google Cloud Next, DeepMind, AWS, offering 200+ AI models, training and inference costs, efficient training, and more — “We’ve been working on contingency plans for quite a while,” Kurian says on Tariffs. — ∙ Paid
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
Autonomous delivery startup Nuro raised a $106M Series E at a $6B valuation, down from $8.6B in 2021 after a $600M Series D, taking its total funding to $2.2B — After months of hearty marketing efforts and large-scale technology demos across the U.S., Nuro has secured $106 million …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
WordPress.com launches an AI website builder to help users create a website via its chat-style interface, available to WordPress users for free — Hosting platform WordPress.com on Wednesday launched a new AI website builder that allows anyone to create a functioning website using an AI chat-style interface.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Samsung and Google plan to launch Ballie, a soccer-ball-shaped home robot that uses AI and can project video onto walls “like a personal BB-8”, in summer 2025 — Samsung Electronics Co. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google are partnering to launch the Ballie, a soccer-ball-shaped home robot …
Ivan Levingston / Financial Times:
PE firm EQT sells a €3B stake in Swedish enterprise software company IFS to investors including the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, valuing IFS at €15B — Deal brings in Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board as investors
Bloomberg:
Sources: Amazon is considering a $15B warehouse expansion plan for nearly 80 new US logistics facilities, reversing its post-pandemic construction slowdown — The e-commerce company is asking potential capital partners to submit proposals, the people said, asking not to be identified citing private information.
Taryn Plumb / VentureBeat:
Google Cloud launches Unified Security, integrating security operations, cloud security, threat intelligence, secure enterprise browsing, and Mandiant expertise — Enterprise infrastructure is increasingly complex, meaning protecting it is, too. — The attack surface is more expansive than ever …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Cloud Next: Google unveils Ironwood, its seventh-generation TPU and the first for inference, coming later in 2025 in a 256-chip cluster or a 9,216-chip cluster — During its Cloud Next conference this week, Google unveiled the latest generation of its TPU AI accelerator chip.
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google launches Workspace Flows, an AI tool to automate multi-step processes, in alpha, and new Docs, Sheets, Meet, Chat, and Vids features, like audio in Docs — Besides new Gemini features in Google Docs, Sheets, Meet, Chat and Vids, Cloud Next 2025 saw the announcement of Google Workspace Flows.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Google Cloud Next: Google unveils Gemini 2.5 Flash, a reasoning model ideal for “high-volume, cost-sensitive” and “real-time” apps, launching soon in Vertex AI — Google is releasing a new AI model designed to deliver strong performance with a focus on efficiency.
