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AI & Machine Learning

The ultimate Nano Banana prompting guide

Learn prompting best practices for Nano Banana Pro and Nano Banana 2, from tech specs to prompting frameworks.

By Khulan Davaajav • 10-minute read

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Application Modernization

Containers & Kubernetes

Grow your own way: Introducing native support for custom metrics in GKE

By Valentin Hamburger • 5-minute read

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Application Modernization

Centralized policy meets distributed logic: Getting to know Eventarc Advanced

By Milen Kovachev • 11-minute read

Management Tools

Unified Maintenance: A new, unified way to manage maintenance across Google Cloud

By Erol-Valeriu Chioasca • 2-minute read

AI & ML

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AI & Machine Learning

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

By Michael Gerstenhaber • 3-minute read

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Manufacturing

Small models, high quality: Inside BMW Group’s experiments evaluating domain-specific language models

By Dr. Michael Menzel • 9-minute read

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AI & Machine Learning

Introducing Gemini 3.1 Pro on Google Cloud

By Michael Gerstenhaber • 2-minute read

Infrastructure

Compute

H4D VMs, now GA, deliver exceptional performance and scaling for HPC workloads

By Aysha Keen • 4-minute read

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

Data Cloud

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Databases

Serving data from Iceberg lakehouses fast and fresh with Spanner columnar engine

By Jagan R. Athreya • 6-minute read

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

Security

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Security & Identity

Cloud CISO Perspectives: How Google approaches critical security topics, from fundamentals to AI

By Royal Hansen • 6-minute read

Threat Intelligence

Look What You Made Us Patch: 2025 Zero-Days in Review

By Google Threat Intelligence Group • 23-minute read

Security & Identity

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

By Giorgia Abeltino • 3-minute read

Developers & Operators

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Networking

Designing private network connectivity for RAG-capable gen AI apps

By Ammett Williams • 5-minute read

Developers & Practitioners

Give your agentic chatbots a fast and reliable long-term memory

By Aishwarya Prabhat • 4-minute read

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Developers & Practitioners

From "Vibe Checks" to Continuous Evaluation: Engineering Reliable AI Agents

By Vlad Kolesnikov • 31-minute read

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Security & Identity

Make security simpler: Introducing the Google Cloud recommended security checklist

By John Stone • 3-minute read

Networking

The AI-native core: Highly resilient telco architecture using Google Kubernetes Engine

By Abhi Maras • 5-minute read

Telecommunications

Fueling the autonomous network: Google Cloud and DigitalRoute simplify data readiness for AI

By Manisha Gupta • 4-minute read

Telecommunications

The rise of the autonomous network: How GraphML is redefining telecom operations

By Naresh Rao • 5-minute read

Telecommunications

Scaling the autonomous network: Introducing the Data Steward and Core Network Agents

By Naresh Rao • 5-minute read

Developers & Practitioners

Data Strategy = AI Strategy Series: Transforming Developers into AI Architects with Google Cloud

By Abirami Sukumaran • 5-minute read

Threat Intelligence

Coruna: The Mysterious Journey of a Powerful iOS Exploit Kit

By Google Threat Intelligence Group • 25-minute read

Developers & Practitioners

Announcing the MCP Toolbox Java SDK

By Abirami Sukumaran • 7-minute read

Telecommunications

From network APIs to network AI agents — building the agentic future of connectivity with Nokia

By Sridhar Gollapudi • 6-minute read

Telecommunications

From framework to scale: Accelerating autonomous networks at MWC 26

By Muninder Sambi • 3-minute read