3 Before 9: March 13, 2026

Google has officially completed its purchase of cloud security company Wiz for $32 billion in cash, the largest acquisition in the company's history. Wiz will join Google Cloud but keep its brand and continue protecting customers across AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud and Google's own infrastructure. The deal cleared US antitrust review in November 2025 and European Union approval in February 2026, with Singapore and Japan among the final jurisdictions to sign off in March 2026. Wiz had crossed $1 billion in annual recurring revenue during 2025 and brings roughly 1,800 employees and a product specifically built for multicloud environments.

Meta has unveiled an aggressive in-house silicon roadmap, with four generations of its custom Meta Training and Inference Accelerator chips planned for deployment on a six-month release cadence through to the end of 2027. The current production chip, MTIA 300, already runs ranking and recommendation across Facebook and Instagram. Three further generations follow in sequence: MTIA 400 "Iris" entering deployment imminently, MTIA 450 "Arke" due in early 2027, and MTIA 500 "Astrid" targeted for mid-2027. All are built in partnership with Broadcom on a RISC-V architecture and manufactured by TSMC, and are designed strictly for Meta's own internal use rather than sold externally.

Wayve, Uber and Nissan signed a memorandum of understanding on March 12 to begin preparing for a robotaxi pilot in Tokyo, with the aim of launching by the end of 2026. The service will put Wayve's AI Driver software into Nissan LEAF electric vehicles, available to riders through the Uber app. A safety driver will be on board during the pilot phase while the three companies work with Japanese authorities to finalise the licensing structure and identify a local taxi operator partner. The Tokyo announcement follows Wayve's $1.2 billion Series D round from February 25 and forms part of a broader plan to deploy Wayve-powered robotaxis across more than ten cities globally, with London first.