Google has announced Agentic BI enhancements to Looker powered by Gemini, enabling AI agents to autonomously interact with data and trigger business actions through a trusted semantic layer.

Google Cloud Next

Data Analytics

Business Intelligence

Google Cloud

46 min read

DevOps•2026-04-22

What’s new in Cloud Run at Next ‘26

Google Cloud Run announces new features for full-stack applications, AI agents, and AI model deployment.

Introducing Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, powering the next wave of agents

Google launches Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, a comprehensive platform for building, scaling, governing, and optimizing enterprise agents with production-grade capabilities.

Developers & Practitioners

Google Cloud Next

AI & Machine Learning

Google Cloud

27 min read

Data Engineering•2026-04-22

The future of data lakehouse: Open and interoperable for the agentic era

Google Cloud's next-generation lakehouse is designed for AI agents with real-time data processing and always-on context capabilities.

What’s new with compute: Scaling core and agentic workloads

Google Cloud announces new compute capabilities for general-purpose and agentic AI workloads with improved performance and cost-efficiency.

Announcing Spanner Omni: Your infrastructure, Google’s innovation

Google announces Spanner Omni, a downloadable distributed SQL database for enterprises to deploy in data centers, clouds, or laptops.

Architecture•2026-04-22

Cross-cloud infrastructure innovation for the agentic enterprise

Google Cloud launches innovations across four areas to support agentic AI infrastructure: fluid compute, secure connectivity, unified data, and digital sovereignty.

Networking

Storage & Data Transfer

Building the Agentic Enterprise with Google Cloud partners and a $750M innovation fund

Google Cloud announces $750M innovation fund and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform to accelerate agentic AI adoption globally.

AI & Machine Learning

Application Modernization

Infrastructure Modernization

Data Engineering•2026-04-22

What’s new in the Agentic Data Cloud: Powering the System of Action

Google Cloud introduces the Agentic Data Cloud, enabling autonomous agents to act on enterprise data at scale.

Databases

Business Intelligence

What’s new in GKE at Next ‘26

Google Kubernetes Engine announces new capabilities for large-scale AI and agentic workloads.

AI & Machine Learning

Application Development

GKE

Google Cloud Next

Containers & Kubernetes

Google Cloud

54 min read

AI•2026-04-22

Oracle Database@Google Cloud: The foundation for the Agentic Enterprise

Google Cloud launches Oracle AI Database with expanded regional availability and AI agent integration capabilities.

AI & Machine Learning

Inside the eighth-generation TPU: An architecture deep dive

Google introduced eighth-generation TPUs (TPU 8t and TPU 8i) optimized for modern AI workloads with improved efficiency and scalability for training and serving.

AI & Machine Learning

New innovations in Google Distributed Cloud

Google Distributed Cloud brings Gemini AI to on-premises with data sovereignty.

Introducing the Google Cloud Knowledge Catalog

Google Cloud's Knowledge Catalog is a dynamic context engine designed to prevent AI agents from hallucinating by providing trusted business semantics and data relationships.

Announcing our 2026 Google Cloud Partners of the Year

Google Cloud announces the 2026 Partner of the Year awards recognizing partners who have delivered innovative solutions using Google Cloud technology across diverse industries.

From keynote to the terminal: Join our Next ‘26 developer livestreams

Google Cloud announces Next '26 developer livestreams, daily broadcasts from the show floor featuring live demos, interviews, and hands-on sessions.

AI & Machine Learning

Google Cloud Next

Developers & Practitioners

Google Cloud

164 min read

Architecture•2026-04-17

Evolving Media CDN for the world’s most demanding broadcast and streaming workloads

This post examines how Google Cloud's Media CDN is evolving to address the scale, flexibility, and operational demands of modern broadcast and streaming workloads.

Top Infrastructure and GKE Sessions at Cloud Next '26

Google Cloud previews top infrastructure and GKE sessions at Cloud Next '26 in Las Vegas, covering AI compute, Kubernetes, and cloud migration.

Google Cloud Next

Infrastructure