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25% off tickets now Back by popular demand: Save up to $300 on Disrupt Close Image Credits:Joan Cros/NurPhoto / Getty Images AI Google Cloud races to catch up in the AI deployment wars with Accenture deal Rebecca Bellan 9:20 AM PDT · September 8, 2026 Google Cloud and Accenture are working together on a joint unit dedicated to sending engineers into enterprises to help them better adopt Google’s AI tools and services. The new unit, dubbed Accenture Gemini Enterprise Business Group, is Google’s latest foray into the increasingly competitive world of “forward-deployed engineers,” or FDEs.

8 billion in the second quarter, a big chunk of which was driven by enterprise AI.

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Google Cloud’s parent company Alphabet reportedly accumulated $811 billion in purchase commitments and contractual obligations as of June 30. As part of its deal with Accenture, Google will train up to 1,000 of the consultancy firm’s FDEs to work with enterprises and build custom AI applications on the Gemini Enterprise platform. The organization will live under Accenture, according to a Google spokesperson. According to August data from Ramp, Google accounts for roughly 6% of enterprise AI spending among Ramp’s U.

7%. (A Google spokesperson pointed out that many of Ramp’s customers exclude the types of major enterprises that are signing large, strategic AI deals with Google Cloud, which go beyond just model API usage — like Oracle, Meta, Anthropic, and ServiceNow. ) Google’s new unit with Accenture, which The Wall Street Journal first reported, is the latest of its aggressive expansions of its FDE model this year as it attempts to resolve enterprise deployment bottlenecks and catch up to rivals.

Earlier this year, Google Cloud launched a $750 million partner ecosystem commitment that embedded Google’s own FDEs across multiple consultancies, including Capgemini, Cognizant, and Deloitte. Google isn’t the only giant at risk of being outpaced by newer firms. For the professional services giant, the Google tie-up adds to its own wave of FDE programs this year, which include a similar Microsoft FDE practice in March, an FDE initiative with ServiceNow in May, and a joint program with SAP in June.

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25% off tickets now Back by popular demand: Save up to $300 on Disrupt Close Image Credits:Silas Stein/picture alliance (opens in a new window) / Getty Images Security Chrome is now shipping updates every 2 weeks as AI changes the security landscape Sarah Perez 8:04 AM PDT · September 8, 2026 Chrome has officially switched from a four- to a two-week release schedule, as Google promised earlier this year, with Tuesday’s launch of Chrome 153 on desktop, iOS, and Android. The shift to faster releases is tied to Chrome’s evolving security strategy in the AI era, the company explained.

As automated AI tools and community bug reports have pushed up the volume of patches and updates, Google says that a shorter release cycle makes it easier to manage security fixes. This is also critical because faster-moving threats, some of which can also be attributed to AI, can be better addressed by shrinking the window between landing a fix in the public codebase and getting that fix to end users, the company notes. Faster releases have another benefit, too: They can help Chrome ship features faster.

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