Company: Google

Why SpaceX-Cursor Works for Both, and What It Means for Google, AWS, IBM
April 29, 2026

Why SpaceX-Cursor Works for Both, and What It Means for Google, AWS, IBM

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead for Software Lifecycle Engineering at Futurum, shares his insights on why the SpaceX-Cursor deal made strategic sense for both companies and what enterprise buyers...
Google's $750M Partner Bet Resets the Agentic Channel Playbook
April 24, 2026

Google’s $750M Partner Bet Resets the Agentic Channel Playbook

Tiffani Bova at Futurum examines Google's $750M agentic AI partner commitment and new alliance formations with Accenture, Deloitte, Salesforce, and Vista Equity that reset channel program expectations....
Going Beyond the Data Graveyard With Google’s Agentic Data Cloud as the New Semantic Core for Agentic AI
April 24, 2026

Going Beyond the Data Graveyard With Google’s Agentic Data Cloud as the New Semantic Core for Agentic AI

Brad Shimmin, Analyst at Futurum, shares his insights on Google's new Agentic Data Cloud. See how this shift from passive storage to active intelligence helps organizations ditch manual data plumbing...
Google Splits Its TPU Line to Enter the Era of Agentic Silicon
April 24, 2026

Google Splits Its TPU Line to Enter the Era of Agentic Silicon

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, examines Google's split of its eighth-generation TPU line into TPU 8t for training and TPU 8i for inference, signaling a structural shift toward workload-specific...
Salesforce Agent API
April 20, 2026

Salesforce Agent API Signals the Next Control Plane Battleground for AI Agents

Salesforce introduces the Agent API to enable headless AI agent execution, directly challenging cloud and workflow vendors for control of the emerging agent control plane—a critical battleground as 72% of...
compute partnership
April 13, 2026

Anthropic’s Google-Broadcom Deal: Model Company or Infrastructure Play?

Anthropic's Google and Broadcom partnership signals a strategic pivot toward supply chain control, raising questions about whether vertical integration will strengthen or dilute its model-first identity....
Will Intel Xeon CPUs Increase Google’s CPU:XPU Ratio?
April 13, 2026

Will Intel Xeon CPUs Increase Google’s CPU:XPU Ratio?

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, examines how Intel and Google's multiyear collaboration on Xeon CPUs and custom IPUs reframes the CPU as a strategic layer in heterogeneous AI infrastructure....
MCP Dev Summit 2026: AAIF Sets A Clear Direction With Disciplined Guardrails
April 7, 2026

MCP Dev Summit 2026: AAIF Sets A Clear Direction With Disciplined Guardrails

Mitch Ashley, VP Practice Lead at Futurum, shares insights from the inaugural MCP Dev Summit North America on MCP's institutional momentum, scope, and discipline, and the open standards stack forming...
How Google Is Constructing the Path for AI-Generation Developers
March 13, 2026

How Google Is Constructing the Path for AI-Generation Developers

In this market brief by Futurum Research, in partnership with Google Cloud, we explore how Google’s approach to AI development aims to accelerate innovation, reduce friction for developers, and help...
March 11, 2026

AI Accelerators – Futurum Signal

The rapid acceleration of artificial intelligence is fundamentally reshaping the semiconductor and data center landscape. In our latest Futurum Signal Report: AI Accelerators, we examine how a new generation of...
Google ADK Is Not a Toolkit – It Is an Agent Execution Framework
March 3, 2026

Google ADK Is Not a Toolkit – It Is an Agent Execution Framework

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead of Software Lifecycle Engineering at Futurum, shares his insights on how Google ADK’s new integrations turn agent frameworks into an execution layer, connecting GitHub,...
February 25, 2026

Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) Platforms – Futurum Signal

Contact centers have undergone a significant transformation over the past two decades, evolving from narrowly focused, on-premises systems built to support outbound sales and inbound customer service into cloud-native platforms...

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Benjamin Brown, VP Custom Research, Futurum Research

Benjamin Brown

VP, Custom Research · The Futurum Group

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