Introducing the Google Cloud Developer Plugin for AI Coding Agents
Google Cloud released a new plugin for AI coding agents to simplify interactions with Google Cloud services, tools, and documentation.
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Google is a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise AI Assistants
Google has been named a Leader in Gartner’s 2026 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise AI Assistants, recognizing its unified platform for secure, scalable AI workflows across organizations.
Beyond DMS: Accelerating Migrations SQL Server Logins and Users to Cloud SQL
Google Cloud explains why SQL Server logins do not migrate automatically during database moves and provides a Microsoft tool to safely recreate them in Cloud SQL for SQL Server.
Spanner: Removing cumulative mutation limits for DML transactions
Google Cloud’s Spanner database removes cumulative mutation limits for DML transactions, enabling larger, more complex operations while maintaining strong consistency and scalability.
How KDDI built Buffmee, a faster, reliable consumer RAG app
KDDI’s Buffmee consumer RAG app cut response latency by 38% and improved groundedness by 25% using Google Cloud’s automated evaluation and analytics tools, enabling faster, reliable AI-powered learning.
Power agent hubs or custom harnesses with the Antigravity SDK in one toolkit
Google Cloud introduces the Antigravity SDK to help teams build custom agent hubs with built-in safety, logging, and multi-turn persistence, enabling real-time monitoring and control of LLM-powered agents.
Spanner migrations: Automating dual-write with Antigravity CLI for minimal disruption
Google’s Finance Engineering team automated Spanner migrations using Antigravity CLI to refactor dual-write logic across dozens of DAOs without downtime, reducing manual effort and maintaining data parity.
Not All LLM Workloads Are Equal: Benchmarking TPU Performance on Classification vs. Generation
Google Cloud benchmarking shows TPU v6e performance varies sharply between classification and generation workloads, with model size and concurrency shaping throughput and latency ceilings.
BigQuery Graph is now GA: the knowledge foundation for the agentic era
Google Cloud has made BigQuery Graph generally available, integrating native graph analytics into its data warehouse to connect enterprise data without ETL or silos.
Cloud CISO Perspectives: Tips on securing the water sector in the AI era
Google Cloud’s August 2026 CISO Perspectives highlights rising cyber threats to U.S. water utilities, urging stronger security measures and AI-augmented defenses to protect critical infrastructure.
From weeks to minutes: The new agentic era of data pipelines
Google Cloud introduces the Data Agent Kit, an open-source toolkit that integrates orchestration pipelines directly into IDEs and CLIs, enabling data teams to build and manage workflows using natural language prompts...
What’s new in AI infrastructure and orchestration in August
Google Cloud announced AI infrastructure updates including Filestore backend improvements, gVisor in Ray clusters, new Cloud Run instances, and Managed Lustre GA with four performance tiers.
How Pythian’s internal AI playbook delivers customer ROI
Pythian’s internal deployment of Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise revealed common enterprise AI pitfalls and led to the creation of a structured operating model that delivered measurable ROI.
Introducing Cloud Run instances
Google Cloud introduced Cloud Run instances to support long-lived, stateful workloads like AI agents, offering a lower-cost alternative to dedicated VMs with predictable pricing and continuous HTTPS endpoints.
Introducing Google Cloud Fault Injection Testing (FIT) in preview
Google Cloud introduced Fault Injection Testing (FIT) in preview to help developers automate failure testing for cloud services, ensuring reliability during disruptions by simulating faults in distributed systems.
Scale OKF bundles across an organization with Knowledge Catalog
Google Cloud introduces a method to publish and govern Open Knowledge Format bundles across organizations using Knowledge Catalog, replacing scattered git repositories with a centralized, searchable index governed by...
Uber de-risks hybrid AI with Cloud Interconnect
Uber adopted Google Cloud’s application-aware Cloud Interconnect to prioritize critical traffic during migrations and peak loads, reducing congestion risk and enabling a smoother transition to Google Cloud.
Best practices for dynamic capacity management
Google Cloud introduced FinOps controls for Gemini Enterprise to manage AI spending and announced best practices for dynamic capacity management to address scaling challenges in the agentic AI era.
Flexible billing and cost controls for agents on Google Cloud
Google Cloud introduces flexible billing and cost controls for AI agent workloads, including pay-as-you-go options, pooled quotas, and savings plans to align costs with usage patterns.
Your chance to start building AI agents from the absolute basics
Google Cloud launched Agent Valley, a free five-week live course teaching beginners to build AI agents using a low-poly virtual world and hands-on exercises led by a Google engineer.
gVisor sandboxes for Ray clusters on GKE
Google Cloud and Anyscale introduce an experimental Ray library with gVisor sandboxing for secure, isolated execution of dynamic AI workloads, available on GKE.
Introducing Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services
Google Cloud launched Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services, integrating agentic AI into capital markets and corporate banking workflows with secure, domain-specific tools and partner integrations.
Introducing Gemini Enterprise for Legal
Google Cloud launched Gemini Enterprise for Legal, a purpose-built AI platform for law firms and corporate legal departments, integrating skills, trusted data connections, and agentic workflows with governance controls.
AI-powered Quick Assessments in Migration Center
Google Cloud introduces AI-powered Quick Assessments in Migration Center to automate infrastructure discovery and financial modeling, aiming to reduce migration timelines from months to minutes.
State of AI infrastructure report agent governance and security
A new report highlights security and governance challenges as major barriers to scaling AI agents in enterprises, with 79% of tech leaders citing these as critical concerns.
Cloud CISO Perspectives: Sticking to security fundamentals in the AI era
Google Cloud’s CISO emphasizes reinforcing core security practices amid AI-driven threats, highlighting layered defenses, threat modeling, and strategic leadership for resilience.
Google Cloud latest news and announcements
Google Cloud announced new AI governance tools, model updates, and API management features, including Apigee enhancements, Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, and compliance solutions for life sciences.
How agents can delegate better
Google Cloud outlines four principles for AI agents to delegate tasks effectively, drawing on research from Google DeepMind on intelligent delegation and its implications for enterprise workflows.
Expanding Google Antigravity for enterprise customers
Google has made Antigravity, its AI coding agent, available to enterprise customers through Gemini Enterprise subscriptions, offering IDE integration, governance tools, and flexible billing options.
10 questions for your startup developers
Google Cloud outlines 10 critical questions for startups to address during the transition from prototype to production, focusing on governance, cost control, and secure migration from AI Studio to Gemini Enterprise...