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Teaneck, N.J. – October 19, 2026 -- Cognizant and Google Cloud are expanding their partnership with a new Gemini Frontier Capability Group backed by more than 18,000 dedicated Cognizant associates, a joint investment aimed at moving enterprise agentic AI from pilot to production.

The group builds on Cognizant's dedicated Gemini practice, launched in April 2026. It pairs Google's AI platform with Cognizant's domain, industry and engineering expertise.

Group targets four engineering areas first

The group will initially focus on legacy modernization, developer experience, autonomous business process agentification and frontier cyber defense. It uses Gemini, Google Cloud's AI platform for building, governing and deploying agents.

Monett, Mo. – – October 16, 2026 -- Jack Henry (Nasdaq: JKHY) will become the first core banking technology provider to integrate with Google Cloud Universal Ledger (GCUL), giving banks and credit unions a route to offer tokenized deposits.

GCUL is a fully managed, distributed ledger service. Financial institutions use it to tokenize and transfer money and assets on a shared, real-time record with programmable, 24/7 settlement.

Community lenders face growing pressure from large banks and fintechs

Jack Henry says consumer and business expectations are shifting toward real-time, programmable financial experiences. Community and regional institutions face growing competition from large banks and fintech providers. The company says tokenized deposit infrastructure inside its ecosystem lets these institutions explore new transactional use cases and enhance digital experiences.

London – October 14, 2026 -- UNLEASH, the HR and future-of-work event organiser, will host 8,500 leaders from 140 countries at the Paris Convention Centre on 20–22 October, backed by a record ten headline sponsors.

Google Cloud joins Docebo, Eightfold, Personio, Phenom, Radancy, SAP SuccessFactors, ServiceNow, Workday and Workhuman on the headline roster. ServiceNow and Personio are new headliners and are making major investments in their UNLEASH partnerships, according to the organiser.

UNLEASH moves to Paris Expo's largest hall in October 2027

The 2026 edition precedes the event's move to Pavilion 1 at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles in October 2027. The venue's largest hall will become the new home of the Paris flagship.

Founder and CEO Marc Coleman said "the question is no longer if AI matters," but which technologies deserve capital and how work design must change.

CHICAGO – October 12, 2026 -- CME Group has completed initial performance testing for CME Globex in the cloud and reports faster round-trip times for trading, along with an accelerated build of its Aurora Cloud Region and co-location facility.

Aurora facility is ahead of schedule, with client testing targeted for mid-2027

The Aurora facility will host Google Cloud's new specialized platform for trading CME Group markets, which the exchange operator describes as industry-first. CME Group targets mid-2027 for client testing. Its Dallas disaster recovery facility has been open for testing since June 2026.

Livestock markets will migrate from Aurora in late 2027, skipping Dallas

CME Group will move its livestock markets to the cloud out of the Aurora Cloud Region in late 2027. The previously planned interim relocation to Dallas is no longer necessary.

London – October 08, 2026 -- Arden University and Google Cloud have announced a strategic partnership granting more than 30,000 students and staff full access to Gemini Enterprise, Google's agentic AI platform used by large global organisations.

Partnership embeds AI across 30 new degree programmes

Arden University has launched more than 30 new degrees built from the ground up around AI tools, incorporating immersive, AI-enabled learning experiences designed to prepare graduates for the workplace. Staff will use Gemini Enterprise to deliver personalised, AI-driven teaching and to create interactive demonstrations, case studies and accessible course formats, including audio/visual overviews and mind maps via Gemini Notebook.

Boston – September 28, 2026 -- Duck Creek has made Agentic First Notice of Loss (FNOL) available to early access customers, an AI-driven tool designed to automate claims intake across digital, voice-to-text, and mobile channels.

Agentic AI agents verify coverage and flag anomalies before an adjuster opens the file

Built on the Duck Creek Agentic AI Platform, the solution uses orchestrated AI agents to capture, validate, enrich, and route claims in real time. From the first description of a loss, the system verifies coverage, assesses injury and legal severity, and cross-references reported circumstances, images, and policy data to surface inconsistencies without manual data entry.

Paris – September 24, 2026 -- BNP Paribas has signed a five-year partnership with Google Cloud to expand its access to AI-optimized infrastructure, Gemini models and Gemini Enterprise, the companies announced.

BNP Paribas will integrate Gemini models into its internal AI assistant used by 65,000 employees

The bank's Corporate & Institutional Banking (CIB) division plans to fold Gemini models into LLM@CIB, its generative AI assistant, and deploy agentic AI across sales, trading, research and structuring workflows, including the preparation of corporate credit memos.

Gemini already powers customer support for 200 advisers at Nickel

Google Cloud and Gemini technologies are already live at Nickel, BNP Paribas' payment account business within its Commercial, Personal Banking & Services division, where Gemini underpins Nickel Assist, a tool helping 200 customer advisers resolve client requests based on operating procedures.

Paris – September 23, 2026 -- Murex has achieved certification to deploy its MX.3 capital markets platform on Google Cloud, giving financial institutions a new cloud option for trading, risk and treasury workloads.

Murex clients begin testing MX.3 on Google Cloud infrastructure

Multiple Murex clients have already started exploring MX.3 deployment on Google Cloud, according to the companies, signaling demand for secure, resilient cloud transformation in capital markets. MX.3 serves more than 60,000 daily users across 65 countries, spanning trading, treasury, risk, post-trade operations and investment management for private and public assets.

Gothenburg, Sweden – September 22, 2026 -- Volvo Cars has become the lead industry partner for Horizon, an open-source software development platform built by Accenture and Google Cloud to speed up car software engineering for Android Automotive Operating System (AAOS).

Volvo Cars migrates global AAOS development to the new platform

As lead partner, Volvo Cars is moving its entire global AAOS software development environment onto Horizon, gaining access to cloud-native development tools, virtual testing environments and AI-assisted workflows. Gregor Zetsche, Head of Connected Experience at Volvo Cars, said the platform lets engineers directly tackle their toughest engineering challenges and deliver new experiences faster.

Burlington, Mass. – September 16, 2026 -- Avid and Google Cloud have expanded their partnership to embed Gemini Enterprise and BigQuery directly into Avid's post-production software, launching a browser-based version of Media Composer that lets editors work from any location without dedicated hardware.

Editor survey shows 79% already use AI, mostly for transcription

A Q2 2026 Avid survey of 120 professional editors found 79% use AI in their workflows, with speech-to-text and transcription the leading application at 60%. Editors want AI confined to efficiency gains rather than creative substitution: 87% said AI is most valuable when it helps them execute creative intent faster, and 76% said its top use is freeing time for storytelling. A further 63% said AI tools need tighter integration into existing workflows to be genuinely useful.