Google Cloud Platform (GCP) stories
Enterprise Oracle users could cut licensing and infrastructure costs as Google Cloud adds high-memory M4N instances tuned for heavy I/O workloads.
The service aims to cut storage overheads for firms running thousands of AI agents, while keeping workspaces isolated and quick to spin up.
Customers can use the six-step workflow to tell whether an outage stems from Google, their own systems or a third-party service.
Administrators can now target shorter reauthentication windows to privileged users and specific apps as Google Cloud rolls out its new 16-hour default.
Teams running AI agents at scale could save idle compute and tighten isolation as Google opens Agent Substrate on Kubernetes Engine.
Enterprises seeking AI-ready infrastructure may see Google Cloud's higher score as validation of its database, analytics and Kubernetes services.
Interrupted batch workloads can now resume where they stopped, potentially cutting wasted compute and delays for Google Cloud customers.
The expanded deal should help more than 1,300 banks and credit unions move AI from pilot projects into day-to-day banking systems.
A 1,000-person engineering push aims to help firms shift Gemini Enterprise from small pilots to company-wide AI deployment.
The new bundle lets AI coding assistants handle Google Cloud setup and commands with fewer custom integrations, while adding guardrails.
Developers can now keep multi-step updates together as Spanner drops the cumulative DML cap, though the 80,000 limit still applies per statement.
The preview kit could cut the time data developers spend switching between warehouses, databases and storage while still needing approval for each action.
The deal could reshape AI infrastructure by tying the leading open-model hub more closely to Nvidia's GPU dominance.
Under heavy generation load, the smaller model kept scaling on TPU v6e while the 27B version hit a throughput plateau above 64 users.
Live analytics get a boost as BigQuery now handles stateful streaming queries, while Dataflow and Kafka gain easier pipeline and testing controls.
Google Cloud's fallback machine selection has helped Yahoo keep analytics jobs running, cutting Spark cluster provisioning failures by 85%.
Existing customers get six years of support as Cloudera shifts new AI and analytics workloads to a Hadoop-free platform due in November.
Kotlin developers can now tap Gemini models in Android and server-side apps through a single package that supports streaming, images and live sessions.
Enterprises could cut the manual work of linking AI and cloud systems as Equinix readies a managed service built on an open standard.
Security teams can now trace blocked cloud requests faster, as Google Cloud rolls out policy intelligence for VPC Service Controls to cut investigation time.
