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Security & Identity

Welcoming Wiz to Google Cloud: Redefining security for the AI era

Google has completed today its acquisition of Wiz, a leading security platform. The Wiz team will join Google Cloud, and we will retain the Wiz brand.

By Thomas Kurian â€¢ 7-minute read

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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 â€¢ 3-minute read

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Training and Certifications

Calling all devs: Build the future of Multimodal AI in the Gemini Live Agent Challenge

By Dilasha Panigrahi â€¢ 3-minute read

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AI & Machine Learning

Introducing Gemini 3.1 Pro on Google Cloud

By Michael Gerstenhaber â€¢ 2-minute read

Application Modernization

Containers & Kubernetes

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

By Valentin Hamburger â€¢ 5-minute read

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Application Modernization

Centralized policy meets distributed logic: Getting to know Eventarc Advanced

By Milen Kovachev â€¢ 11-minute read

Management Tools

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

By Erol-Valeriu Chioasca â€¢ 2-minute read

Infrastructure

Compute

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

By Aysha Keen â€¢ 4-minute read

Networking

Firefly: Illuminating the path to nanosecond-level clock sync in the data center

By Rohit Dalal â€¢ 6-minute read

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Infrastructure

Announcing America-India Connect and new investments to advance global AI access

By Brian Quigley â€¢ 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 â€¢ 6-minute read

Data Analytics

Simplify your AI workflow with autonomous embedding generation in BigQuery

By Andong Li â€¢ 4-minute read

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Databases

Powering the next generation of agents with Google Cloud databases

By Amit Ganesh â€¢ 5-minute read

Security

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Security & Identity

Cloud CISO Perspectives: New Threat Horizons report highlights current cloud threats

By Bob Mechler â€¢ 5-minute read

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Security & Identity

Make security simpler: Introducing the Google Cloud recommended security checklist

By John Stone â€¢ 3-minute read

Threat Intelligence

Coruna: The Mysterious Journey of a Powerful iOS Exploit Kit

By Google Threat Intelligence Group â€¢ 25-minute read

Developers & Operators

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Developers & Practitioners

Announcing the MCP Toolbox Java SDK

By Abirami Sukumaran â€¢ 7-minute read

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Networking

Designing private network connectivity for RAG-capable gen AI apps

By Ammett Williams â€¢ 5-minute read

Developers & Practitioners

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

By Aishwarya Prabhat â€¢ 4-minute read

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Public Sector

Gemini for Government: Build custom AI agents for unclassified work on GenAI.mil

By Jim Kelly â€¢ 2-minute read

Public Sector

Google named a Leader in IDC MarketScape: U.S. State and Local Government Professional Security Services 2025â€“2026 Vendor Assessment

By Ron Bushar â€¢ 3-minute read

Inside Google Cloud

Whatâ€™s new with Google Cloud

By Google Cloud Content & Editorial â€¢ 7-minute read

Developers & Practitioners

Cost-Effective AI with Ollama, GKE GPU Sharing, and vCluster

By Abdel Sghiouar â€¢ 7-minute read

Threat Intelligence

Proactive Preparation and Hardening Against Destructive Attacks: 2026 Edition

By Mandiant â€¢ 212-minute read

AI & Machine Learning

The ultimate Nano Banana prompting guide

By Khulan Davaajav â€¢ 10-minute read

Threat Intelligence

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

By Google Threat Intelligence Group â€¢ 23-minute read

Manufacturing

Small models, high quality: Inside BMW Groupâ€™s experiments evaluating domain-specific language models

By Dr. Michael Menzel â€¢ 9-minute read

Networking

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

By Abhi Maras â€¢ 5-minute read

Telecommunications

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

By Manisha Gupta â€¢ 4-minute read