Alphabet News - April 25, 2026

Google pivots to autonomous AI agents, securing billion-dollar Merck deal

Google shifted its AI strategy at the Cloud Next conference from model development to practical enterprise adoption. The company introduced the Gemini...

Anthropic Tests AI Agents as Autonomous Negotiators in Internal Marketplace

Anthropic has detailed "Project Deal," an internal experiment where its Claude AI models acted as autonomous agents for employees, tasked with buying, selling,...