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Many of the world’s fastest-growing AI startups are choosing to build their future — and the world’s — on Google Cloud because of our complete and open AI stack. We embed AI into every layer of our architecture so your team is fully equipped to build and scale for the agentic era.

At Google Cloud Next ‘26, we focused on providing updates to each layer of the stackto help lean teams move faster and operate more efficiently. We introduced a unified Agent Platform that moves beyond isolated AI tools to a complete lifecycle platform and a new generation of TPUs optimized for both training and inference. This was complemented by the world’s first Agentic Data Cloud, a system designed to take on the shift from human scale to agent scale and updates to our AI-powered cybersecurity platform, now combining Google’s Threat Intelligence and Security Operations with Wiz’s Cloud and...

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt lead quest designer recalls the moment he suggested that one character be killed off, says the team's reaction was 'wide eyes and silence' — 'The weight of it is exactly what the act needs'

* The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt lead quest designer Paweł Sasko says his suggestion to kill off a certain character shocked the team * Sasko argued that "the weight" of the scene was exactly what the act needed * He says the team ran into many technical difficulties during the Battle
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Source: smart ring maker Oura filed confidentially for a US IPO, set for later in 2026; SF- and Finland-based Oura had an $11B valuation in September 2025

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