AI Cloud

Cognizant Introduces Agentic Retail CX: An AI‑Powered Contact Center Built on Google Gemini — the latest joint offering from Cognizant and Google Cloud that promises to reshape how retailers handle customer interactions. Announced from Teaneck, N.J., the solution blends Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience (CX) with Cognizant’s AI Builder framework to deliver a purpose‑built, omnichannel…

Check Point Software Technologies and Google Cloud have announced a joint launch of the AI Defense Plane, a security layer that plugs into Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform to protect autonomous AI agents in real‑time. The partnership pairs Check Point’s AI Defense Plane with Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, creating a three‑tier security…

Altimetrik, the AI‑first digital engineering firm, announced Monday that it has joined Google Cloud’s newly minted AI‑native partner cohort. The partnership creates a dedicated Gemini Enterprise practice within Altimetrik, aimed at moving enterprises from AI pilots to production‑grade, agentic solutions built on Google’s Gemini Enterprise model and the broader Google Cloud AI stack. A New Engine for Enterprise…

Kyndryl announced a strategic expansion of its Distributed Cloud portfolio in partnership with Google Cloud, aiming to give enterprises the flexibility to run AI‑driven and data‑intensive workloads wherever regulatory, latency, or performance constraints dictate. Why the announcement matters Hybrid and multicloud adoption is no longer a niche strategy. Gartner forecasts that by 2025, 75 % of…

Avid × Google Cloud AI Partnership Redefines Video Editing for Enterprise Media Teams – In a move that could reshape post‑production workflows, Avid and Google Cloud announced a multi‑year alliance to embed Google’s Gemini multimodal models and Vertex AI services into Avid’s flagship editing suite, Media Composer, and its new cloud‑native SaaS, Avid Content Core. What’s being announced…

UrVenue Accelerates AI‑Driven Hospitality Experience Management with Model Context Protocol – the Las Vegas‑based SaaS provider announced a major upgrade to its AI platform for hospitality, targeting a Q4 2026 release of a Model Context Protocol (MCP) that will make venue inventory searchable, bookable, and actionable across emerging AI interfaces. UrVenue, the long‑standing software vendor behind the…