AWS, Google, NVIDA, Workday & Running Robots: Top Tech News

AWS, Google, NVIDA, Workday & Running Robots: Top Tech News

Inside Google’s US$10m Data Acquisition of Spirit Airlines

Following Spirit Airlines’s bankruptcy declaration and total shutdown on 2 May of this year, the defunct carrier had entered bankruptcy court auctions to sell off its remaining corporate assets and pay down roughly US$8.1bn in debt.

According to Bloomberg Law, Google has now emerged as the winning bidder for the airline’s vast digital repositories, securing the assets for US$10m.

In doing so, the tech giant beat out AI recruitment firm Mercor, which submitted a US$7.5m bid. The US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York has designated Mercor as the backup buyer should the primary deal fail to finalise.

Google plans to use the acquired files to train its AI Large Language Models (LLMs), with court filings revealing that the acquisition grants Google access to an exceptionally vast and specialised operational dataset.

How Workday AI Research Is Building Better Workplace Agents

While AI agents promise to automate complex workplace tasks, deploying them at scale is revealing major structural flaws. Off-the-shelf models frequently stumble over corporate guardrails, struggling to balance computational efficiency with data privacy and auditing requirements.

To solve these real-world friction points, enterprise software provider Workday set up Workday AI Research, a specialised technical team dedicated to making AI systems more reliable, transparent and efficient for modern organisations.

“As AI agents evolve to remember context and take action on behalf of employees, enterprises are facing complex challenges around privacy, auditability, efficiency and enterprise-grade accuracy that off-the-shelf models simply cannot solve,” explains Gerrit Kazmaier, President of Product and Technology at Workday.

How AWS Plans to Use US$500m to Train University Students

For university students looking to break into tech, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is committing more than US$500m in resources to provide verified learners with free, hands-on cloud and AI training.

The initiative launches through a Student Rewards programme on AWS Builder Center, giving verified higher education students access to premium learning tools, credits and certification pathways to support the development of skills.

Demand for certified tech talent continues to grow across the enterprise landscape, driving major cloud providers to invest directly in early career development.

World Robot Games: Can Fast Humanoids Master Factory Work?

The ongoing World Humanoid Robot Game in Beijing is a spectacle on the fast track, with two robots – Tiangong Ultra and Lightning – running faster than Usain Bolt’s 9.58-second world record in the 100-metre. Yet, after slamming into thick mats past the finish line, it seems that breaking records is much easier for these machines than pumping the brakes for a real factory shift.

Nevertheless, the leap forward from last year’s inaugural games is striking. During the 2025 competition, the winning 100-metre sprint time dragged past 20 seconds, whereas this year’s humanoids have shaved off more than half that duration.

Standing high jumps also surged from a top mark of just 0.95 metres last year to an impressive 2.88 metres, reflecting rapid strides in hardware, battery output and thermal management across the industry.

NVIDIA Vera Rubin & Groq 3 LPX Supercharge Agentic Compute

For AI agents to think, write code and take multi-step actions without lag, lightning-fast processing speeds are non-negotiable. NVIDIA is tackling this bottleneck head-on with its next-generation architecture: the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform.

Designed as a unified, high-efficiency AI factory framework, Vera Rubin combines accelerated computing, high-speed interconnects, advanced data processing hardware and optimised software into a single system built to maximise AI throughput while reducing operational costs.

As part of this platform rollout, the NVIDIA Groq 3 LPX hardware expansion has entered full production. Engineered specifically to boost token generation speeds within the rack-scale Vera Rubin NVL72 system, Groq 3 LPX enables ultrafast response times for complex, autonomous agentic workflows.