Google Cloud news and trends

As AI Advances, So Do Cyber Threats on Commerce 
Cybersecurity // November 06, 2024

Google’s top security chief is warning that artificial intelligence (AI) is forcing companies to radically rethink how they protect digital operations, as traditional cybersecurity measures prove increasingly inadequate against sophisticated AI-powered attacks. The stark assessment comes as retailers and payment processors rush to fortify their...

AT&T Hacker Arrested: How the Cybersecurity Landscape Evolved Post-Snowflake Breach
Cybersecurity // November 06, 2024

Over 160 of the world’s largest enterprises had their data stolen this year. All by the same attack strategy. Each of the businesses, ranging from AT&T and Santander Bank to Advance Auto Parts and Ticketmaster parent company LiveNation, had uploaded massive volumes of sensitive customer...

Citi Turns to Google Cloud to Update AI and Digital Strategy
Digital Banking // October 28, 2024

Citi has teamed with Google to use artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud technology to bolster its digital strategy. The collaboration, announced Monday (Oct. 28), is designed to use Google Cloud’s expertise to upgrade the banking giant’s infrastructure. “Citi is on a mission to modernize our...

Making Sense of Quantum Data Defense in the Payments Space
Cybersecurity // October 25, 2024

For firms in security-critical areas like financial services and payments, it’s time to pay attention to cybersecurity. A data breach in these industries doesn’t just mean a lost paycheck; it could trigger a financial disaster on a global, digitally interconnected scale. And with the news...

Interviews & Exclusives
Google Cloud: There Are Two Reasons Banks Need to Move to the Cloud

October 02, 2024
Cybersecurity is a pressing and complex challenge for financial institutions. It’s a space where technology and strategy must align to ensure resilience and compliance, and it sits against an evolving and dynamic backdrop of operational innovation, particularly as it relates to cloud computing. “Organizations still tackle cloud integration with the perspective of ‘this is a […]

Slumping Sales Could Stoke Retail Industry’s Appetite for Digital Efficiencies

January 18, 2023
With retailers posting their worst results in a year during their most important month for sales, the time for self-guided digitalization has arrived. Instead of cranking out discounts and relying...

Quick Reads
KPMG Launches $100 Million AI Partnership With Google Cloud

November 20, 2024
KPMG will spend $100 million over the next four years on its enterprise AI services. It’s part of an artificial intelligence (AI) partnership between the professional services giant and Google Cloud, Steve Chase, vice chair of AI and innovation for KPMG, said in an interview with Reuters posted Wednesday (Nov. 20). While part of the $100 million will cover […]

Citi Turns to Google Cloud to Update AI and Digital Strategy

October 28, 2024
Citi has teamed with Google to use artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud technology to bolster its digital strategy. The collaboration, announced Monday (Oct. 28), is designed to use Google Cloud’s...

Honeywell, Google Join Forces to Build AI-Driven Industrial Operations

October 21, 2024
Honeywell and Google Cloud are partnering to transform the industrial sector by integrating advanced artificial intelligence (AI) agents into operations. The two companies announced their collaboration in a press release...

Coinbase Widens Access to Crypto B2B Payments

October 03, 2024
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is expanding the ways businesses can pay. PayPal paid invoices to EY using the PayPal USD (PYUSD) stablecoin deposited into EY’s Coinbase Prime account, according to a...