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AI & Machine Learning

Pro-level image generation gets faster and more accessible with Nano Banana 2

Nano Banana 2 delivers Pro-level image generation and editing at the speed you expect from Flash — making complex generations faster, cheaper, and more accessible. Available in preview on Vertex AI.

By Michael Gerstenhaber • 3-minute read

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Infrastructure

Networking

Firefly: Illuminating the path to nanosecond-level clock sync in the data center

By Rohit Dalal • 6-minute read

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Infrastructure

Announcing America-India Connect and new investments to advance global AI access

By Brian Quigley • 4-minute read

Serverless

High-performance inference meets serverless compute with NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 on Cloud Run

By James Ma • 3-minute read

AI & ML

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AI & Machine Learning

Introducing Gemini 3.1 Pro on Google Cloud

By Michael Gerstenhaber • 2-minute read

AI & Machine Learning

Using Google Cloud AI to measure the physics of U.S. freestyle snowboarding and skiing

By Google Cloud Team • 5-minute read

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AI & Machine Learning

Announcing Claude Opus 4.6 and Claude Sonnet 4.6 on Vertex AI

By Michael Gerstenhaber • 6-minute read

Data Cloud

Data Analytics

Simplify your AI workflow with autonomous embedding generation in BigQuery

By Andong Li • 4-minute read

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Databases

Powering the next generation of agents with Google Cloud databases

By Amit Ganesh • 5-minute read

Data Analytics

Building a conversational agent in BigQuery using the Conversational Analytics API

By David Tamaki Szajngarten • 7-minute read

Security

Security & Identity

Sovereignty and European competitiveness: A partnership-led approach to AI growth

By Giorgia Abeltino • 3-minute read

Threat Intelligence

GTIG AI Threat Tracker: Distillation, Experimentation, and (Continued) Integration of AI for Adversarial Use

By Google Threat Intelligence Group • 33-minute read

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Security & Identity

Cloud CISO Perspectives: New AI threats report: Distillation, experimentation, and integration

By John Hultquist • 6-minute read

Application Modernization

Cost Management

Simpler billing, clearer savings: A FinOps guide to updated spend-based CUDs

By Alfonso Hernandez • 5-minute read

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Management Tools

OTLP everywhere: Cloud Monitoring now supports OpenTelemetry Protocol metrics

By Lee Yanco • 4-minute read

Containers & Kubernetes

How we cut Vertex AI latency by 35% with GKE Inference Gateway

By Fisayo Feyisetan • 4-minute read

Developers & Operators

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Developers & Practitioners

Getting Started with Gemini 3 Pro Image

By Remigiusz Samborski • 5-minute read

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Developers & Practitioners

Mastering Model Adaptation: A Guide to Fine-Tuning on Google Cloud

By Drew Brown • 5-minute read

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Developers & Practitioners

Using the Neo4j Extension in Gemini CLI

By Jack Wotherspoon • 6-minute read

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AI & Machine Learning

A developer's guide to production-ready AI agents

By Kanchana Patlolla • 2-minute read

Threat Intelligence

Exposing the Undercurrent: Disrupting the GRIDTIDE Global Cyber Espionage Campaign

By Google Threat Intelligence Group • 52-minute read

Databases

Decommission your legacy Apache Cassandra stack and build for the future with Spanner

By Nitin Sagar • 8-minute read

AI & Machine Learning

Your guide to Provisioned Throughput (PT) on Vertex AI

By Raiyaan Serang • 5-minute read

Databases

Google (Spanner) Ranks #1 for Lightweight Transactions Use Case in Gartner® Critical Capabilities Report

By Jagan R. Athreya • 5-minute read

Data Analytics

Unlocking enterprise data to accelerate agentic AI: How Ab Initio does it

By Scott Studer • 4-minute read

Data Analytics

New BigQuery global queries let you explore distributed data with a single SQL statement

By Wawrzek Hyska • 3-minute read

Threat Intelligence

From BRICKSTORM to GRIMBOLT: UNC6201 Exploiting a Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines Zero-Day

By Mandiant • 12-minute read

Inside Google Cloud

What’s new with Google Cloud

By Google Cloud Content & Editorial • 4-minute read

Financial Services

Build financial resilience with AI-powered tabletop exercises on Google Cloud

By Florian Graf • 5-minute read