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AI & Machine Learning

Building on the bananas momentum of generative media models on Google Cloud

We’ve shipped a set of major updates across all our generative media models–including Veo 3, Veo 3 Fast, and Imagen 4–on Vertex AI to help you do just that: create faster, with more control, and in the formats that matter most. Learn more.

By Jason Gelman • 1-minute read

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Customers

Cool stuff customers built, Sept. edition: Modern edge, faster blockchains, AI for nurses & more

By Google Cloud Content & Editorial • 10-minute read

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Financial Services

The oracles of DeFi: How to build trustworthy data feeds for decentralized applications

By Peter Kohl-Landgraf • 7-minute read

AI & ML

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AI & Machine Learning

Announcing Claude Sonnet 4.5 on Vertex AI

By Michael Gerstenhaber • 3-minute read

AI & Machine Learning

Introducing the DORA AI Capabilities Model: 7 keys to succeeding in AI-assisted software development

By Kevin M. Storer • 5-minute read

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AI & Machine Learning

Powering AI commerce with the new Agent Payments Protocol (AP2)

By Stavan Parikh • 17-minute read

Data Cloud

Data Analytics

Connect Spark data pipelines to Gemini and other AI models with Dataproc ML library

By Brad Miro • 3-minute read

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Data Analytics

Converse with your data and generate forecasts using BigQuery's new MCP and ADK tools

By Ganesh Kumar Gella • 3-minute read

Databases

Gemini CLI extension for PostgreSQL in action: Build a fuzzy search feature in minutes

By Bala Narasimhan • 2-minute read

Infrastructure

Compute

Unlock next-gen VMs using GKE compute classes and Compute Flexible CUDs

By Victor Szalvay • 7-minute read

Networking

Network Performance Decoded: Much ado about headers, data and bitrates

By Sumit Singh • 5-minute read

Compute

GPUs when you need them: Introducing Flex-start VMs

By Ari Liberman • 6-minute read

Security

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Security & Identity

Cloud CISO Perspectives: Boards should be ‘bilingual’ in AI, security to gain advantage

By Francis deSouza • 6-minute read

Inside Google Cloud

The global harms of restrictive cloud licensing, one year later

By Marcus Jadotte • 3-minute read

Threat Intelligence

Another BRICKSTORM: Stealthy Backdoor Enabling Espionage into Tech and Legal Sectors

By Mandiant • 29-minute read

Modern Applications

Containers & Kubernetes

Meet the new GKE: Extending Autopilot to all qualifying clusters

By William Denniss • 5-minute read

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AI & Machine Learning

Announcing the 2025 DORA Report: State of AI-Assisted Software Development

By Nathen Harvey • 4-minute read

Containers & Kubernetes

5 best practices for Managed Lustre on Google Kubernetes Engine

By Nishtha Jain • 6-minute read

Developers & Operators

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Developers & Practitioners

Agent Factory Recap: Can you do my shopping?

By Shir Meir Lador • 8-minute read

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Developers & Practitioners

Announcing the new Practical Guide to Data Science on Google Cloud

By Jeff Nelson • 2-minute read

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Developers & Practitioners

Supercharge ML performance on xPUs with the new XProf profiler and Cloud Diagnostics XProf library

By Rajesh Anantharaman • 11-minute read

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Public Sector

Google Pixel phones achieve DoDIN APL Certification: Secure, mission-ready mobile technology for federal agencies

By Sharmeen Noor • 3-minute read

AI & Machine Learning

Building on the bananas momentum of generative media models on Google Cloud

By Michael Gerstenhaber • 6-minute read

Developers & Practitioners

Accelerate AI with Agents: Event Series for Developers in EMEA

By Abdel Sghiouar • 4-minute read

AI & Machine Learning

What Google Cloud announced in AI this month

By Andrea Sanin • 33-minute read

Threat Intelligence

Cybercrime Observations from the Frontlines: UNC6040 Proactive Hardening Recommendations

By Mandiant • 28-minute read

Public Sector

Google Distributed Cloud at the edge powers U.S. Air Force Mobility Guardian 2025

By Zahra Najmi • 3-minute read

Chrome Enterprise

How TELUS is powering growth and productivity with Google

By Alyson Butler • 4-minute read

Data Analytics

What’s new with Google Data Cloud

By The Google Cloud Data Analytics, BI, and Database teams • 20-minute read

Containers & Kubernetes

Accelerating cloud migrations to Google Cloud with Searce to drive profitable growth

By Shubhika Taneja • 4-minute read

Data Analytics

The new data scientist: From analyst to agentic architect

By Yasmeen Ahmad • 7-minute read