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6 developments involving Google Cloud in 4 countries and bodies. The most recent is NVIDIA launches the OpenShell reference architecture to contain, monitor and police enterprise AI agents in hardware, 21 Oct 2026.
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- NVIDIA launches the OpenShell reference architecture to contain, monitor and police enterprise AI agents in hardware
Agent containment is moving from the model vendor’s software into the data-centre hardware, with the DPU as the enforcement point every lab’s agents would run behind.
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- OpenAI’s models come to Google Cloud, which now sells all three leading closed models
The frontier labs’ models are becoming interchangeable line items inside each other’s clouds, with the cloud provider holding the contract, the invoice and the data boundary.
- Anthropic’s enterprise safeguards put misuse monitoring in the customer’s own cloud
The largest US banks have agreed a way to run frontier models with misuse detection but without the lab seeing their traffic.
- Google commits about $15bn to an AI hub and data centre campus in Visakhapatnam
Indian businesses and government users get in-country Google AI compute at gigawatt scale, and Andhra Pradesh becomes a data centre and cable landing site alongside Mumbai and Chennai.
- Google announces TPU v5p with 8,960-chip pods and says Gemini was trained on TPUs
Google showed a frontier model trained without NVIDIA hardware and offered the same chips to cloud customers, adding a large source of training compute outside NVIDIA.
- MAS and banks publish a generative AI risk framework from Project MindForge
Singapore’s largest banks and cloud providers agreed with the regulator on a shared list of generative AI risks before MAS wrote formal AI rules for the sector.