Google Cloud is expanding its Web3-focused products to become the preferred choice for industry firms and developers. The company recently launched a startup program to support players in the Web3 segment, and plans to continue building services similar to its Blockchain Node Engine. Google Cloud is also exploring how Web3 technologies can streamline operations and unlock alternative business models and revenue streams for players in financial services and gaming. Additionally, the company is exploring the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the Web3 space. Google's Web3 startup program offers free access to its serverless platform, technical support, and $200,000 in Google Cloud credits.

Decentralized trading platform PancakeSwap has partnered with Google Cloud to ensure the availability and reliability of its infrastructure, using Google Kubernetes Engine and Dysnix's PreditKube solution to predict and manage traffic spikes. The platform is also working with audit firms and leveraging Cloud Armor to secure its smart contracts, with plans to expand services by adding more chains and exploring non-fungible tokens. The partnership has seen PancakeSwap's native token, CAKE, rise in value by 3.9% within the last 24 hours, with the platform's engineers now able to focus on developing new features and improving user experience. However, PancakeSwap's market cap and revenue have both seen declines in the past 24 hours, according to Token Terminal data.

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Google Cloud is now offering up to $1 million in protection to customers who have been affected by undetected crypto mining attacks. The protection is available to subscribers of Google's Security Command Center Premium, which detects cyber threats.

Google Cloud has launched a series of free online courses aimed at teaching the basics of generative AI systems and introducing the Generative AI Studio development environment. The courses cover topics such as large language models, responsible AI, image generation, and important generative AI concepts like encoder-decoder architecture, attention mechanism, transformer and BERT models, and image captioning models.

Voltage, a Lightning Network as a Service (LaaS) provider, is partnering with Google Cloud to expand hosting providers and locations for Bitcoin and Lightning Nodes.

Wendy's has partnered with Google Cloud to create an AI chatbot called "Wendy's FreshAI" that will take orders from drive-thru customers. The chatbot will use natural language processing and machine learning algorithms to generate responses. Wendy's CEO and president Todd Penegor stated that the chatbot will be conversational and customers won't know they're talking to a bot. However, there are challenges associated with using chatbots for drive-thru orders, such as the diversity of customers' orders and background noise. Wendy's FreshAI will undergo a pilot launch in June at a Columbus, Ohio restaurant before being rolled out to multiple stores.

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The article aims to provide insight into how cloud service providers can impact the institutional decentralized finance (DeFi) landscape by building blockchain tools, establishing Web3 collaborations, and providing the resources for developing.

Polygon Labs and Google Cloud have announced a multi-year partnership to boost the development of the Ethereum scaling protocol's tools and infrastructure. The partnership will focus on simplifying developer integration to build, launch and grow Web3 products and decentralized applications on Polygon. Google Cloud's Blockchain Node Engine will be used by the Polygon ecosystem to assist with time-intensive processes and costly overheads of acquiring, maintaining and operating dedicated blockchain nodes. The partnership will also provide capital resources to Polygon ecosystem developers and companies building Web3 products and DApps.