Google launched its first TPU satellite and published an analysis showing orbital data centres would need 1,800 Starship launches in a decade.
The MVP satellite with four Trillium TPUs lifts off on 1 October aboard SpaceX's Transporter-18. Google is testing whether commercial AI accelerators survive launch, radiation and cooling in vacuum.
Developers are testing LMArena checkpoints they believe are early Gemini 4 Pro. Google confirms one thing: the model is in post-training, with release “much earlier” than the end of 2026.
Google DeepMind unveiled WeatherNext Cyclones on August 6, 2026, an AI model forecasting cyclone track, intensity and wind structure up to 15 days ahead.
Mirendil, an AI lab founded by ex-Anthropic and Google researchers, signed a multiyear $100M+ Google Cloud deal for TPU and GPU access to train self-improving AI.
