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Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is now generally available on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is now generally available. Designed for ultra-low latency, high-volume tasks, and unmatched cost-efficiency, Flash-Lite is already transforming how applications are built at scale.

By Michael Gerstenhaber • 4-minute read

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AI & ML

AI & Machine Learning

Google Named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AI Application Development Platforms: Mid-cycle update

By Mike Clark • 5-minute read

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Retail

Fitting the future: How Breuninger boosted sales with its "be your own model" AI

By Dr. Michael Menzel • 4-minute read

AI & Machine Learning

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

By Vidya Nagarajan • 7-minute read

AI & Compute Infrastructure

SAP on Google Cloud

SAP SAPPHIRE 2026: Google Cloud unveils unified agentic vision and massive compute scaling

By Casey McGee • 4-minute read

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Developers & Practitioners

Pioneering AI-assisted code migration: How Google achieved 6x faster migration from TensorFlow to JAX

By Jamie Rogers • 5-minute read

Compute

Cluster-level reliability for trillion-parameter models on TPUs

By Akshay Vasudev • 6-minute read

Application Development and Runtimes

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Containers & Kubernetes

With faster node startup for GKE, say goodbye to cold-start latency

By Eyal Yablonka • 4-minute read

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Developers & Practitioners

Ship code within minutes with the Gemini CLI DevOps Extension

By Karl Weinmeister • 9-minute read

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Serverless

What’s new in Cloud Run at Next ‘26

By Steren Giannini • 5-minute read

Data Cloud

Databases

Future-proof your data strategy: AlloyDB adds PostgreSQL 18 and new Extended Support

By Bjoern Rost • 5-minute read

Data Analytics

The power of LLMs on your data, more than two orders of magnitude faster and cheaper

By Thibaud Hottelier • 11-minute read

Databases

New Bigtable in-memory tier for sub-millisecond read latency

By Anton Gething • 6-minute read

Network and Storage Infrastructure

Storage & Data Transfer

Cloud Storage Rapid: Turbocharged object storage for AI and analytics

By Marco Abela • 7-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: How Google + Wiz changes multicloud strategy for CISOs

By Vinod D’Souza • 6-minute read

Security & Identity

The new era of SaMD: Why cloud infrastructure is the foundation for digital health in 2026

By Tamara Redondo • 5-minute read

Threat Intelligence

GTIG AI Threat Tracker: Adversaries Leverage AI for Vulnerability Exploitation, Augmented Operations, and Initial Access

By Google Threat Intelligence Group • 33-minute read

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Developers & Practitioners

Gemini Live Agent Challenge: Announcing the winners and highlights

By Dilasha Panigrahi • 6-minute read

Threat Intelligence

Welcome to BlackFile: Inside a Vishing Extortion Operation

By Google Threat Intelligence Group • 16-minute read

Application Development

Transforming how applications are built and managed in the AI era

By Adam Michelson • 5-minute read

Data Analytics

What’s new with Google Data Cloud

By The Google Cloud Data Analytics, BI, and Database teams • 7-minute read

Public Sector

Smart moves: Building resilient transportation systems with Google AI

By Kristin White • 3-minute read

Chrome Enterprise

Our continued commitment to Chromebooks, and looking ahead

By Naveen Viswanatha • 2-minute read

Infrastructure

How Imgix processes 8 billion images daily with G4 VMs powered by NVIDIA Blackwell

By Abhijeet Rajwade • 6-minute read

Security & Identity

Beyond source code: The files AI coding agents trust — and attackers exploit

By Bernardo Quintero • 9-minute read

Databases

Meet the latest Database Center, now with Gemini-powered fleet intelligence

By Kiran Shenoy • 5-minute read

Public Sector

Architecting a resilient, scalable and secure foundation for the agentic era

By Leigh Palmer • 4-minute read

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