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Google warns AI is turbocharging cyber attacks as Sandra Joyce says firms must patch fast, while Gemini boosts threat detection and analysis.

San Francisco healthcare startup TriFetch secures pre-seed backing from Nexus Venture Partners to automate calls, referrals and prior authorisations.

TCS deepens Google Cloud partnership with four new AI products aimed at speeding enterprise automation, factory efficiency and cyber defence.

Stripe, PayPal, Adyen and Block are pushing into loyalty, lending and AI checkout tools as payment groups seek a bigger role in merchant commerce.

AI shopping agents are moving retail from clicks to chat, as Walmart, Amazon and Google test protocols that let software search, compare and pay.

TCS broadens Google Cloud alliance to speed enterprise shift into autonomous AI systems with new tools for data, factories and security.

Amazon, Meta and Microsoft join Universal Commerce Protocol council as AI shopping standard draws major backing from retailers and payments groups.

Kyndryl broadens Google Cloud deal to help enterprises modernise applications and run AI workloads across regulated hybrid environments.

Google Cloud rolls out three AI agents for SecOps to automate detection engineering, threat hunting and context gathering as it eyes autonomous SOCs.

Ulta Beauty rolls out Google-powered AI shopping across Search and Gemini, while building its own assistant for personalised browsing and checkout.

Google Cloud deepens AI infrastructure partnership with Thinking Machines Lab, giving the start-up early access to NVIDIA GB300 systems and faster training.

Merck deepens Google Cloud tie-up with USD $1 billion AI rollout across research, manufacturing and commercial operations.

Mars broadens Google Cloud tie-up, making Gemini Enterprise the core AI layer for employees as it pushes unified search, custom agents and faster workflows.

WPP expands Google partnership with Earth AI to sharpen local ad planning using weather, traffic and neighbourhood data across its marketing platform.

Vodafone and Google Cloud widen their SMB push with new Gemini-based concierge and managed cyber defences, starting in Germany and Greece.

Valeo will equip 100,000 staff with Gemini for Workspace as the automotive supplier deepens its Google Cloud partnership and expands agentic AI in engineering.

Commvault expands its cyber resilience platform to Google Cloud Marketplace, giving customers new ways to protect BigQuery, GKE and Workspace workloads.

Elastic and Google add AI-driven threat detection to air-gapped cloud systems as defence and government customers seek tighter data sovereignty.

EcoVadis expands workplace AI rollout with Google Cloud, using Gemini Enterprise to automate internal tasks and train staff to build custom agents.

Citi Wealth rolls out AI assistant Citi Sky for US clients, aiming to blend adviser support with Google-powered voice and video features.