European mobile and broadband operator Vodafone said it would offer its ‌small business customers advanced cybersecurity and agentic ‌AI through its $1 billion strategic tie-up with Google Cloud agreed in ​October 2024. The security product will be a managed detection and response service enabled by Google Security Operations designed to protect small businesses from increasingly frequent and ‌sophisticated cyber threats, Vodafone ⁠said on Wednesday. The agentic AI ​product - Vodafone ​Business AI Concierge with ​Google Gemini - is designed ‌to engage with a small business's customers to answer inquiries and book appointments, it said.