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Google Cloud Next

Welcome to Google Cloud Next ‘26

At Google Cloud Next '26, explore the Agentic Enterprise. Learn about our unified AI stack for building, scaling, and optimizing intelligent agents.

By Thomas Kurian • 37-minute read

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Developers & Practitioners

From keynote to the terminal: Join our Next ‘26 developer livestreams

By Google Cloud Content & Editorial • 3-minute read

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Training and Certifications

GEAR up to get the most out of AI learning at Google Cloud Next ‘26

By Ricky Robinett • 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

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

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Hybrid & Multicloud

New innovations in Google Distributed Cloud

By Muninder Sambi • 5-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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Developers & Practitioners

Introducing the Builders Hub from the Google Developer Program

By Chris Demeke • 3-minute read

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Containers & Kubernetes

What’s new in GKE at Next ‘26

By Drew Bradstock • 6-minute read

Data Cloud

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Data Analytics

Introducing the Google Cloud Knowledge Catalog

By Chai Pydimukkala • 6-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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Databases

What’s new with Databases: Powering the agentic future

By Sailesh Krishnamurthy • 9-minute read

Network and Storage Infrastructure

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Networking

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

By Benny Siman-Tov • 5-minute read

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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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Networking

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

By Rob Enns • 13-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

Building the Agentic Enterprise with Google Cloud partners and a $750M innovation fund

By Kevin Ichhpurani • 8-minute read

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Startups

Startups are building the next big thing with Google Cloud AI

By Darren Mowry • 12-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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Developers & Practitioners

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

By Mandy Grover • 3-minute read

Developers & Practitioners

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

By Megan O'Keefe • 2-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

Data Analytics

What’s new in BigQuery: Powering the Agentic Era

By Neeraja Rentachintala • 9-minute read

Data Analytics

The future of data lakehouse: Open and interoperable for the agentic era

By Gaurav Saxena • 7-minute read

Compute

Inside the eighth-generation TPU: An architecture deep dive

By Diwakar Gupta • 11-minute read

AI & Machine Learning

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

By Satish Thomas • 17-minute read

Cost Management

Next-gen FinOps for the AI era

By Sarah McMullin • 4-minute read

Compute

Cross-cloud infrastructure innovation for the agentic enterprise

By Nirav Mehta • 9-minute read