Google Cloud has officially entered the "Agentic Era," rebranding its flagship Vertex AI platform to the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and unveiling eighth-generation TPUs to power a new wave of autonomous business agents. During the Google Cloud Next ‘26 conference in Las Vegas, CEO Thomas Kurian declared that the industry has moved beyond simple chatbots toward "agentic workflows." Editorial credit: Sundry Photography / Shutterstock The three-day event was dominated by t

The UK Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has ruled that Microsoft must face a massive £2.1 billion ($2.8 billion) class action lawsuit alleging it systematically overcharged 60,000 British businesses for using Windows Server on rival cloud platforms. In a landmark decision on April 21, 2026, the tribunal certified the case as an "opt-out" collective action, meaning affected UK businesses are automatically included in the claim unless they explicitly withdraw. Editorial credit