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Gemini Apps Get Interactive UIs Inside Chat
Google has introduced MCP Apps for Gemini Enterprise, an open protocol letting developers build interactive UIs that run directly inside the chat. This moves assistants beyond slow, text-only interactions for complex, multi-step tasks.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
Infra
Query Your AWS Data Directly From Google Cloud
Google BigQuery can now analyze data stored on other clouds like AWS and Azure without moving it. This uses the open Apache Iceberg standard to reduce costs and complexity for companies with multi-cloud data strategies.
Ashish Kale ·
Data
Google Upgrades BigQuery With Smarter Business Forecasting
Google's BigQuery now lets you predict future trends using multiple related data points, not just one. This powerful forecasting is available through a simple SQL function, making complex analysis accessible without needing a data science team.
Taranpreet Singh ·
Infra
Google Cloud Aims for Wall Street's Fastest Trades
Google Cloud has launched its U4 compute family, specialized servers designed for ultra-low latency workloads. This move aims to bring high-frequency trading, an industry that relies on speed, from private data centers into the public cloud.
Ashish Kale ·
Data
Google Makes Advanced AI Search Radically Simple
Google updated its AlloyDB database to combine two types of search—vector and full-text—into a single command. This drastically simplifies building high-quality search for modern AI applications, reducing complexity and improving performance for developers.
Taranpreet Singh ·
AI
Google DeepMind Finds a Way to Watermark Biology
Google DeepMind can now embed a hidden signature in AI-generated biological data, like DNA. This could help track AI-created organisms, while new 'swarm scaling' methods are making AI systems more powerful by combining smaller models.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
Infra
Istio Is Leaving Google Cloud Repositories
Istio is moving its release artifacts off Google Cloud. All users must update their configurations to new repositories before an October 13 deadline to avoid service disruptions and ensure supply chain security.
Ashish Kale ·
Infra
Google Cloud Fixes Slow Kubernetes App Starts
Google Cloud has launched "CPU startup boost" for its Kubernetes Engine (GKE). The feature temporarily provides extra CPU power to applications as they start, speeding up launch times without forcing you to pay for underutilized resources long-term.
Ashish Kale ·
Infra
Google Cloud Just Made AI Data Storage Cheaper
Google Cloud has launched a new, lower-cost storage tier for its Managed Lustre service. This makes high-performance file systems more affordable for AI and HPC workloads by reducing the need to manually manage different storage types.
Ashish Kale ·
Infra
Google AI Now Helps You Code Earth Data
Google has added an AI assistant called 'Ask' to its Earth Engine platform. Powered by Gemini, it helps developers write complex geospatial code using simple text prompts, accelerating projects in climate science, agriculture, and urban planning.
Ashish Kale ·
Infra
Google Cloud Targets Your Slowest Data Apps
Google Cloud has launched its new Z4D machine series, designed to speed up applications that handle large amounts of data. These new virtual machines and bare-metal servers target databases, analytics, and other I/O-intensive business-critical workloads.
Ashish Kale ·
Infra
How Google Cloud Helps You Dodge AI Chip Shortages
Google Cloud's 'fluid compute' strategy helps teams avoid AI hardware shortages. It lets developers design workloads that can flexibly run on different available accelerators, like GPUs or TPUs, preventing costly project delays.
Ashish Kale ·
Data
Google Builds Advanced Text Search Into Its Databases
Google added advanced text search (BM25) directly into Cloud SQL and AlloyDB. Developers can now build smarter AI search applications without managing a separate system, which simplifies architecture and reduces operational complexity.
Taranpreet Singh ·
Infra
Google Reveals Its Cloud Incident Response Plan
Google Cloud has published its internal five-step workflow for handling service outages. The framework guides teams from initial verification to post-incident review, aiming to minimize downtime and improve resilience for any company running on the cloud.
Ashish Kale ·
Infra
Google Cloud Built a File System for AI Agents
Google Cloud released Filestore agent volumes, a new managed storage service built for AI agents. It provides a shared, persistent file system to simplify how agents access and process data, eliminating the need for complex custom solutions.
Ashish Kale ·
Infra
Google's New AI Can Run an Entire Telecom Network
Google Cloud is using Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to automate telecommunications networks. This new approach helps manage the growing complexity that traditional methods and human operators can no longer handle effectively.
Ashish Kale ·
Data
Google BigQuery Now Automates Your Data Analysis
Google BigQuery now has built-in AI functions that automatically find trends and explain why your metrics change. This lets data teams get complex answers directly within SQL, without needing separate machine learning tools.
Taranpreet Singh ·
Infra
How Google Moved Its Finance Data Without Downtime
Google's engineers built a new command-line tool, Antigravity, to automate the complex process of migrating databases to Spanner. The tool manages dual-writing to old and new systems, ensuring zero downtime for critical financial applications.
Ashish Kale ·
Infra
Google Cloud Simplifies Its Toughest Security Control
Google Cloud has updated its VPC Service Controls with new policy intelligence tools. This helps security and IT teams more easily understand, troubleshoot, and enforce the digital perimeters that protect their sensitive data from exfiltration.
Ashish Kale ·
AI
Google Just Made Building Fast AI Apps Cheaper
Google has launched Gemini 1.5 Flash, a new AI model optimized for speed and efficiency. It offers lower costs and faster response times, making it ideal for developers building high-volume applications that need quick, reliable performance.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
Data
Google's New AI Agents Automate Database Chores
Google Cloud has launched new AI agents to automate complex database tasks like setup, troubleshooting, and performance tuning. This helps IT teams save time and reduce errors when managing critical data infrastructure on services like AlloyDB and Spanner.
Taranpreet Singh ·
Infra
Google AI Now Plans Your Cloud Migration in Minutes
Google Cloud's Migration Center now uses AI to create rapid cost assessments for moving to the cloud. This new feature automates a complex process that previously took weeks of manual analysis, helping teams modernize infrastructure faster.
Ashish Kale ·
Tech
Google Adds a New Watchdog App to Android
Google is quietly installing a new system app, Android Pulse, on phones. It runs in the background to continuously monitor other apps for misbehavior, adding a new layer of real-time security to the platform.
Taranpreet Singh ·
AI
Google's Plan to Buy Employee Data for AI Stalls
Google's $10 million deal to buy Spirit Airlines' internal data—including emails and code—to train AI has been stalled. A flight attendants' union argues the deal's privacy terms fail to protect employee data, only customer information.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
AI
You Can Now Tell Google's AI What to Show You
Google is adding a new AI feature to its Discover feed that lets you describe the content you want to see. This signals a shift from passive personalization to active, conversational content curation for users.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
Tech
Google Gives Publishers a New Follow Feature
Google is rolling out a 'Follow' button for publishers. This lets readers mark a source as preferred, boosting its visibility in Search, Discover, and News to help counter falling traffic from AI-driven search answers.
Navdeep Kaur Mahal ·
Infra
Google Cloud Now Protects Keys From Quantum Attacks
Google Cloud's Key Management Service now lets you import your own encryption keys using a quantum-safe method. This protects sensitive data from the future threat of quantum computers powerful enough to break today's standard encryption.
Ashish Kale ·
Data
Google's Postgres Database Now Searches 10 Billion Vectors
Google's AlloyDB now supports searching up to 10 billion vectors, a massive jump in scale. This allows developers to build enterprise-grade AI applications on a fully managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database without hitting previous performance limits.
Taranpreet Singh ·
Infra
Google Cloud Now Uses AI to Fix Data Pipelines
Google Cloud's serverless Apache Spark service now uses AI to automatically diagnose and suggest fixes for failed data jobs. This helps teams spend less time debugging infrastructure and more time building data pipelines.
Ashish Kale ·
AI
Google's New AI Model Isn't a Black Box
Researchers found Google's new DiffusionGemma AI is not a complete black box. Its step-by-step reasoning process can be interpreted, a positive sign for the safety, monitoring, and future enterprise adoption of diffusion-based text models.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
Infra
How Google BigQuery Makes AI Agents More Trustworthy
Google Cloud has updated BigQuery with graph data capabilities. This helps AI agents understand the complex relationships within business data, leading to more accurate and trustworthy insights than what's possible with simple tables.
Ashish Kale ·
Infra
Google Now Uses AI Agents to Test Your Apps
Google Cloud launched a new platform that uses AI agents to automate mobile app testing on real devices. This aims to simplify the complex process of ensuring apps work across thousands of different phone models, evolving from Firebase Test Lab.
Ashish Kale ·
Tech
Gmail is Dropping its Unified Inbox Feature
Google is removing the "Gmailify" feature, which lets you connect other email accounts to your Gmail inbox. This change will force many users to find new ways to manage multiple email addresses from a single application.
Taranpreet Singh ·
AI
Mirendil Bets $100M on Google for Self-Improving AI
AI startup Mirendil is spending over $100 million on Google Cloud to build self-improving AI systems. The deal highlights the massive computing power now required for next-generation AI research aimed at accelerating scientific discovery.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
Tech
SkiaSharp Now Aligns Directly with Google's Skia
The popular .NET graphics library SkiaSharp has launched version 4.0. Its new release schedule now directly matches Google's underlying Skia project, giving developers faster access to the latest features and bug fixes for cross-platform apps.
Navdeep Kaur Mahal ·
AI
Google AI Teaches Robots to See and Collaborate
Google DeepMind has released Gemini Robotics ER 2, a new AI model that allows robots to understand video, reason about tasks, and collaborate with each other. This could significantly accelerate automation in complex, real-world environments.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
Infra
Microsoft and Google Clash Over AI's Control Point
Microsoft's and Google's CEOs have published competing visions for AI's future. Microsoft bets on controlling the cloud infrastructure, while Google believes the most powerful AI model itself will be the ultimate control point.
Ashish Kale ·
Infra
Old Pixel Phones Power a New Private Cloud
Google and UC San Diego are building a private cloud using 2,000 retired Pixel phones. This project explores a sustainable, low-cost way to create computing infrastructure and reduce electronic waste from discarded smartphones.
Ashish Kale ·
Infra
Run Your AI Models 8x Faster on Google Cloud
Google has improved Ray Serve on Google Kubernetes Engine, boosting throughput by up to 5x and cutting latency by 8x. This makes it much more efficient to scale and serve large language models for production applications.
Ashish Kale ·
AI
DeepMind Borrows Cybersecurity Playbook for AI Control
Google DeepMind released a new AI control roadmap that treats AI risks like cybersecurity threats. The framework uses familiar concepts like threat modeling to help developers build guardrails for increasingly powerful AI agents.
Neeraj Dhiman ·