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Google Renames Antigravity Agent to Chief of Staff in Latest Update

Google has renamed an unreleased agent in its Antigravity 2.0 desktop app from Concierge to Chief of Staff. We compare the 5 and 8 October screenshots, explain the “Chief of stuff” confusion, set the change against Antigravity’s fast release cycle, Gemini 4 Argon and the Gemini agent Google Cloud announced the same day, and list the controls businesses should set before a chief-of-staff agent arrives.

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The Pentagon Hopes to Speed Up ‘Kill Chain’ AI Buys With 5-Minute Videos

The Pentagon’s Tradewinds programme lets AI companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, pitch in videos of up to five minutes and win contracts fast. We explain how the process works, what the numbers show, why this year’s brief asks for kill chain agents, how other transaction deals and their $100m and $500m thresholds work, and why transparency lags.

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Here’s How Tech Leaders Will Self-Police AI Safety Under Trump’s Deal

Trump’s AI safety accord asks each company for internal controls, an internal team, an outside auditor and a board committee. The structure copies Sarbanes-Oxley but drops the standards body, certifications and penalties. Four of six signatories had already broken rule one, the FTC’s new probe reaches the evaluators, and buyers now have questions to ask.

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Google Is Sending a Teensy-Tiny AI Data Center to Space

Google’s first space data center is a refrigerator-sized satellite with four TPUs and about a kilowatt of solar power. This article sizes it against Google’s Ironwood pods, the GPUs Google rents on the ground and gigawatt campuses, works through the solar and radiator arithmetic of scaling up, and compares Starcloud and SpaceX Starmind.

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Google Plans First Test of AI Chips in Space Under Project Suncatcher

Google will launch its first AI chips into orbit on 1 October 2026 under Project Suncatcher. This article explains the MVP satellite and its four TPUs, the launch, radiation and cooling tests, the laser-linked constellation planned for 2027, the $200 per kilogram economics, rivals Starcloud, SpaceX and Nvidia, the sceptics’ case and what it means for businesses.

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UN Turns to Google to Make Its Global Data Ready for AI Agents

The United Nations has launched the UN System Data Commons at data.un.org, built on Google’s open-source Data Commons platform. It links statistics from across UN agencies, supports plain-language search and lets AI agents fetch official figures through the Model Context Protocol. A UNICEF benchmark of six AI models found average accuracy of just 21.2% on development statistics. We explain how it works, what it fixes and what it means for businesses.

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Google, Nvidia, and Anthropic Want Emerald AI to Find Space on the Grid for More Data Centers

On 17 September 2026 the grid software unicorn Emerald AI announced the AI Energy Management Alliance, founded with Google and Nvidia, joined by Anthropic and the utilities AES, Constellation, National Grid and NRG Energy. The coalition says that pausing noncritical tasks and shifting compute loads could let an additional 100 gigawatts of data centres connect to the existing grid. This article explains how the software works, compares the 100 GW claim with a Goldman Sachs estimate of 76 GW, covers the $150 million Series A, and sets out where the chief scientist says the approach stops working.

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Google Will Invest €13 Billion in AI Infrastructure in Finland. Neither Announcement States a Megawatt of Demand

Google Finland AI infrastructure spending will reach at least €13 billion across 2027 and 2028, the company announced on 9 September 2026, calling it its largest single investment in Europe. The package covers data centres in four municipalities, a 22-year nuclear power purchase agreement, new onshore wind, a battery system, a community fund and a […]

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