Market developments ordered by event date, with direct evidence. Site maintenance has its own publishing log.
Entered private beta for Compass Cloud on September 25, 2026 after releasing North Small Translate under a non-commercial open-weight license and signing a regulatory-pending combination agreement with Aleph Alpha.
Announced a redesigned Copilot app combining Home, Code and Autopilot on September 25, 2026; Autopilot is the renamed Scout agent.
Released Saaras V4 speech recognition on September 25, 2026, following Sarvam Vision 2.1 for production document intelligence on September 24.
Akamai announced a seven-year $11.6B cloud-services commitment from Anthropic, with a possible $9B expansion and a conditionally vesting warrant for up to about 5% of Akamai common stock.
Launched Docker Cloud Sandboxes on September 24, 2026, extending microVM coding-agent environments from laptops to Docker-managed cloud compute.
Introduced Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar for Gemini Enterprise on September 24, 2026; custom avatars require enterprise allowlisting.
Google described planned orbital tests of TPUs for space-based AI compute, followed by a satellite-link test planned for 2027.
Reported in September 2026 that its latest four weeks of sales annualized to a run rate above $1B; this is a company-provided measure.
Added LeRobot episode previews and Google Cloud Marketplace subscriptions for its platform services on September 24, 2026.
Launched Managed Deep Agents v0.8 on September 24, 2026 with user-owned credentials, user-level memory, HTTP channels, Slack file transfer and built-in web search.
Added live style previews, more precise inpainting and outpainting, and improved seamless tiling for V8.1/V8.2 on September 24, 2026.
Announced a September 24, 2026 research partnership with Neurosoft Bioelectronics to advance AI-powered brain-computer interfaces; no clinical result or released model was claimed.
Updated OpenHands Enterprise on September 24, 2026 with automation visibility and governance, Git Sync and OAuth-enabled MCP integrations.
Adobe completed its acquisition of AI image and video enhancement company Topaz Labs; Topaz will continue as a standalone brand with its apps and models available.
