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A quick take on updates, announcements, resources, events, and learning opportunities from Google Cloud in one handy location. Updated weekly.

Why your startup needs open models alongside frontier APIs

By Darren Mowry • 7-minute read

Maximizing Apache Spark availability: Mitigating compute stockouts with flexible VMs and other best practices

By Sravani Bobbala • 8-minute read

What's new for Managed Service for Apache Spark clusters

By Qiqi Wu • 6-minute read

Containers & Kubernetes

The open platform for the AI era: GKE, agents, and OSS innovation at KubeCon EU 2026

By Abdel Sghiouar • 5-minute read

Containers & Kubernetes

Kubernetes as AI Infrastructure: Google Cloud, llm-d, and the CNCF

By Sean Horgan • 4-minute read

Management Tools

OTLP everywhere: Cloud Monitoring now supports OpenTelemetry Protocol metrics

By Lee Yanco • 4-minute read

AI & Machine Learning

How the Max Planck Institute is sharing expert skills through multimodal agents

By Dr. Patricia Skowronek • 10-minute read

AI & Machine Learning

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

By Stavan Parikh • 17-minute read

Management Tools

OpenTelemetry Protocol comes to Google Cloud Observability

By Sujay Solomon • 4-minute read

AI & Machine Learning

Automate app deployment and security analysis with new Gemini CLI extensions

By Prithpal Bhogill • 5-minute read