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Databases

Firestore at Next '26: Unlock agentic development, search and MongoDB compatibility

Discover the latest Firestore updates from Cloud Next 2026: Agentic AI integrations, built-in search, and expanded MongoDB compatibility.

By Minh Nguyen • 6-minute read

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Public Sector

Welcome to the agentic era: Public sector highlights and reflections from Next ‘26

By Karen Dahut • 5-minute read

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Google Cloud Next

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

By Sarah Kennedy • 48-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

AI & Machine Learning

50+ fully managed MCP servers now available for Google Cloud services

By Vidya Nagarajan • 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

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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Developers & Practitioners

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

By Mandy Grover • 3-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

Databases

UKG unlocks real-time workforce intelligence at scale with the Agentic Data Cloud

By Radhi Chagarlamudi • 4-minute read

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Data Analytics

Mapping a smarter future with BigQuery and Google Earth AI models and datasets

By Greg Leon • 5-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

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

Cloud CISO Perspectives: At Next ‘26, why we’re multicloud and multi-AI

By Francis deSouza • 6-minute read

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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

Introducing Google Cloud Fraud Defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA

By Jian Zhen • 4-minute read

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Data Analytics

Scaling data and AI with Managed Service for Apache Airflow

By Piotr Wieczorek • 4-minute read

Chrome Enterprise

Chrome Enterprise introduces new integrations for healthcare

By Ashley Moulton • 3-minute read

Inside Google Cloud

What’s new with Google Cloud

By Google Cloud Content & Editorial • 14-minute read

AI & Machine Learning

What Google Cloud announced in AI this month

By Andrea Sanin • 17-minute read

Startups

The founder’s AI foundation: The top announcements for startups from Next ‘26

By Darren Mowry • 8-minute read

Public Sector

Google Cloud und das BSI C3A-Framework: Wie wir Digitale Souveränität in Deutschland konkret machen

By Dr. Wieland Holfelder • 2-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 2 at Google Cloud Next: A marathon developer keynote

By Google Cloud Content & Editorial • 6-minute read

Google Cloud Next

Day 1 at Google Cloud Next ‘26 recap

By Google Cloud Content & Editorial • 11-minute read