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Training and Certifications

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

Stop typing, start interacting! Join the Gemini Live Agent Challenge to break the text box paradigm and build immersive, multimodal AI agents.

By Dilasha Panigrahi • 3-minute read

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AI & Machine Learning

The ultimate Nano Banana prompting guide

By Khulan Davaajav • 10-minute read

Threat Intelligence

Coruna: The Mysterious Journey of a Powerful iOS Exploit Kit

By Google Threat Intelligence Group • 25-minute read

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

Security & Identity

Make security simpler: Introducing the Google Cloud recommended security checklist

By John Stone • 3-minute read

Threat Intelligence

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

By Google Threat Intelligence Group • 23-minute read

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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

Developers & Operators

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Developers & Practitioners

Announcing the MCP Toolbox Java SDK

By Abirami Sukumaran • 7-minute read

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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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Threat Intelligence

Proactive Preparation and Hardening Against Destructive Attacks: 2026 Edition

By Mandiant • 198-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

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

Inside Google Cloud

What’s new with Google Cloud

By Google Cloud Content & Editorial • 7-minute read

AI & Machine Learning

What Google Cloud announced in AI this month

By Andrea Sanin • 7-minute read