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AI & Machine Learning

The Agent Development Kit Hackathon with Google Cloud: Announcing the winners and highlights

We just wrapped our Agent Development Kit (ADK) hackathon. Learn more about the winners, the highlights, and what’s coming next.

By Stephanie Wong • 3-minute read

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Retail

From query to cart: Inside Target’s search bar overhaul with AlloyDB AI

By Vishal Vaibhav • 7-minute read

Data Analytics

Google Cloud’s open ecosystem for Apache Iceberg

By Naveen Punjabi • 5-minute read

Data Cloud

Data Analytics

Introducing BigQuery soft failover: Greater control for disaster recovery testing

By Larry Henderson • 3-minute read

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Databases

Announcing general availability of Firestore with MongoDB compatibility

By Minh Nguyen • 4-minute read

Data Analytics

Chat with your data from anywhere: Announcing Google’s Conversational Analytics API

By Richard Kuzma • 7-minute read

Modern Applications

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Containers & Kubernetes

Happy birthday, GKE! Let's celebrate with new features and better pricing

By Drew Bradstock • 4-minute read

Containers & Kubernetes

GKE under the hood: Container-optimized compute delivers fast autoscaling for Autopilot

By Abdel Sghiouar • 4-minute read

Application Modernization

Simplify complex eventing at Scale with Eventarc Advanced

By Vidya Nagarajan Raman • 6-minute read

Infrastructure

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Networking

Accelerate your IPv6 journey: Introducing DNS64 and NAT64 for the Cross-Cloud Network

By Rohit Dalal • 4-minute read

Hybrid & Multicloud

Run Gemini anywhere, including on-premises, with Google Distributed Cloud

By Vithal Shirodkar • 5-minute read

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Infrastructure

How much energy does Google’s AI use? We did the math

By Amin Vahdat • 7-minute read

AI & ML

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AI & Machine Learning

Building next-gen visuals with Gemini 2.5 Flash Image on Vertex AI

By Jamie de Guerre • 4-minute read

AI & Machine Learning

Here’s which Google AI developer tool to use for each situation

By Richard Seroter • 6-minute read

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AI & Machine Learning

101+ gen AI use cases with technical blueprints

By Richard Seroter • 76-minute read

Security

Security & Identity

From clicks to clusters: Expanding Confidential Computing with Intel TDX

By Joanna Young • 8-minute read

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Security & Identity

Cloud CISO Perspectives: How CISOs and boards can help fight cyber-enabled fraud

By David Stone • 6-minute read

Security & Identity

Google named a Leader in IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Incident Response 2025 Vendor Assessment

By Jurgen Kutscher • 4-minute read

Developers & Operators

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Developers & Practitioners

vLLM Performance Tuning: The Ultimate Guide to xPU Inference Configuration

By Eric Hanley • 19-minute read

Management Tools

Don’t just speculate, investigate! Gemini Cloud Assist now offers root-cause analysis

By Deepak Kallakuri • 5-minute read

AI & Machine Learning

How to build a real-time voice agent with Gemini and Google ADK

By Ashwini Kumar • 2-minute read

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Developers & Practitioners

Agent Factory Recap: Keith Ballinger on AI, The Future of Development, and Vibe Coding

By Mollie Pettit • 6-minute read

AI & Machine Learning

How Baseten achieves 225% better cost-performance for AI inference (and you can too)

By Philip Kiely • 4-minute read

Developers & Practitioners

How to Build Highly Available Multi-regional Services with Cloud Run

By Wietse Venema • 6-minute read

Media & Entertainment

StreamSight: Driving transparency in music royalties with AI-powered forecasting

By Kiki Ganzemüller • 4-minute read

Threat Intelligence

ViewState Deserialization Zero-Day Vulnerability in Sitecore Products (CVE-2025-53690)

By Mandiant • 28-minute read

Inside Google Cloud

What’s new with Google Cloud

By Google Cloud Content & Editorial • 26-minute read

AI & Machine Learning

What Google Cloud announced in AI this month

By Andrea Sanin • 30-minute read

Data Analytics

What’s new with Google Data Cloud

By The Google Cloud Data Analytics, BI, and Database teams • 16-minute read

Public Sector

Defense Logistics Agency selects Google Public Sector to modernize global supply chain operations – the agency’s first AI-ready commercial cloud partnership

By Jim Kelly • 3-minute read

Storage & Data Transfer

Storage Insights datasets: How to optimize storage spend with deep visibility

By Misha Sheth • 9-minute read