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Google Cloud Next

260 things we announced at Google Cloud Next '26 – a recap

A whirlwind recap of Google Cloud Next 26, including a synopsis of over 250 product, customer and ecosystem announcements.

By Sarah Kennedy • 48-minute read

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Google Cloud Next

Day 2 at Google Cloud Next: A marathon developer keynote

By Google Cloud Content & Editorial • 6-minute read

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Developers & Practitioners

Next '26 Hands-On: 10 Codelabs to Build Featured Tech

By Mandy Grover • 3-minute read

AI & ML

AI & Machine Learning

The new Gemini Enterprise: one platform for agent development, orchestration, and governance

By Brian Delahunty • 7-minute read

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AI & Machine Learning

Introducing Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, powering the next wave of agents

By Michael Gerstenhaber • 12-minute read

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AI & Machine Learning

Gemini Enterprise for the agentic task force: introducing long-running agents, agentic collaboration spaces, advanced governance, and more

By Maryam Gholami • 7-minute read

AI & Compute Infrastructure

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Compute

Inside the eighth-generation TPU: An architecture deep dive

By Diwakar Gupta • 11-minute read

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Compute

What’s next in Google AI infrastructure: Scaling for the agentic era

By Amin Vahdat • 9-minute read

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Compute

What’s new with compute: Scaling core and agentic workloads

By Nirav Mehta • 10-minute read

Application Development and Runtimes

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Serverless

What’s new in Cloud Run at Next ‘26

By Steren Giannini • 5-minute read

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Cost Management

Next-gen FinOps for the AI era

By Sarah McMullin • 4-minute read

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Developers & Practitioners

Level Up Your Agents: Announcing Google's Official Skills Repository

By Megan O'Keefe • 2-minute read

Data Cloud

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Databases

What’s new with Databases: Powering the agentic future

By Sailesh Krishnamurthy • 9-minute read

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Data Analytics

What’s new in the Agentic Data Cloud: Powering the System of Action

By Andi Gutmans • 8-minute read

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Data Analytics

What’s new in BigQuery: Powering the Agentic Era

By Neeraja Rentachintala • 9-minute read

Network and Storage Infrastructure

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Storage & Data Transfer

Storage innovations to accelerate your AI workloads at Next ‘26

By Sameet Agarwal • 9-minute read

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Hybrid & Multicloud

New innovations in Google Distributed Cloud

By Muninder Sambi • 5-minute read

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Networking

Introducing Virgo Network, Google’s scale-out AI data center fabric

By Benny Siman-Tov • 5-minute read

Security

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Security & Identity

Next ‘26: Redefining security for the AI era with Google Cloud and Wiz

By Francis deSouza • 11-minute read

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Security & Identity

Announcing new partner-supported workflows for Google Security Operations

By Raimundo Alcazar • 6-minute read

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Security & Identity

Introducing Google Cloud Fraud Defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA

By Jian Zhen • 4-minute read

Partners and Ecosystem

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Partners

Google Cloud and SAP unveil blueprint for the Agentic Enterprise

By Casey McGee • 3-minute read

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Partners

Oracle AI Database@Google Cloud: The foundation for the Agentic Enterprise

By Kiran Shenoy • 4-minute read

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Partners

Announcing our 2026 Google Cloud Partners of the Year

By Aimee Catalano • 3-minute read

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Inside Google Cloud

What’s new with Google Cloud

By Google Cloud Content & Editorial • 12-minute read

Data Analytics

What’s new with Google Data Cloud

By The Google Cloud Data Analytics, BI, and Database teams • 6-minute read

Threat Intelligence

Snow Flurries: How UNC6692 Employed Social Engineering to Deploy a Custom Malware Suite

By Mandiant • 26-minute read

Google Cloud Next

Day 1 at Google Cloud Next ‘26 recap

By Google Cloud Content & Editorial • 11-minute read

AI & Machine Learning

Enabling the agentic enterprise: business and industry agents arrive in Gemini Enterprise

By Satish Thomas • 17-minute read

Databases

Announcing Spanner Omni: Your infrastructure, Google’s innovation

By Wenzhe Cao • 5-minute read

Databases

Converging operational and analytical data for AI transformation

By Sean Zinsmeister • 5-minute read

Networking

What’s new with the Cross-Cloud Network at Next ‘26

By Rob Enns • 13-minute read

Containers & Kubernetes

What’s new in GKE at Next ‘26

By Drew Bradstock • 6-minute read

Data Analytics

Introducing the Google Cloud Knowledge Catalog

By Chai Pydimukkala • 6-minute read