Google — Volume 342, Issue 4

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Volume 342, Issue 4 · 15 articles

In This Issue

How Google Cloud Networking Supports Your Fluid Compute Choices for AI Workloads (Google, Thursday, September 24th, 2026)

Google Cloud explains how its networking stack accommodates flexible accelerator choices, such as GPUs vs TPUs, for AI workload deployment. Read more

Storage Intelligence Advisor: Know What Changed in Your Storage Estate and Act on It (Google, Friday, September 25th, 2026)

Google Cloud made Storage Intelligence advisor generally available with expanded batch operations to flag storage changes and act on them. Read more

Unlock 3x QPS and Microsecond Latency with Memorystore for Valkey 9.1 (Google, Friday, September 25th, 2026)

Google Cloud released Memorystore for Valkey 9.1, delivering up to 3x QPS at microsecond latency versus Memorystore for Redis Cluster. Read more

Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar (Google, Thursday, September 24th, 2026)

Google launched Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar, adding real-time visual, lip-synced avatars to its live conversational AI. Read more

Power Your Agents: Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar Is Now Generally Available (Google, Thursday, September 24th, 2026)

Google made Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar generally available in Gemini Enterprise, adding lip-synced video avatars to voice AI agents. Read more

Scale Your Own Way, Using HPA with Built-In Support for PromQL Metrics Queries in GKE (Google, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026)

GKE's Horizontal Pod Autoscaler now natively supports PromQL queries against Cloud Monitoring/Prometheus, no third-party adapters needed. Read more

GKE Becomes More Elastic: Scale to Zero, Save Costs, and Keep Workloads Responsive (Google, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026)

GKE 1.37 adds native scale-to-zero, letting idle batch jobs and dev environments stop consuming resources without tools like KEDA. Read more

Gemini 3.8 Text-to-Speech Says Hello (Google, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026)

Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash and Flash-Lite TTS models for custom character voices and directed, scene-level audio generation. Read more

Scribd, Inc. Classifies More Than 400 Million Documents with Gemini Batch Inference on Gemini Enterprise (Google, Thursday, September 24th, 2026)

Scribd used Gemini's PDF understanding and Gemini Enterprise batch inference to classify over 400 million user-uploaded documents. Read more

Agent Factory Recap: Agent Harnesses, Shifting Left, and Autonomous Coding (Google, Friday, September 25th, 2026)

Google's Agent Factory podcast recap explains what an 'agent harness' is and how grounding models in context enables greater agent autonomy. Read more

Anyone Can Make Stunning HD Videos with Gemini Omni in Google Vids (Google, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026)

Google added its Gemini Omni model to Google Vids, letting anyone generate free 1080p HD videos with creative scene controls. Read more

What's New with Google Cloud (Google, Friday, September 25th, 2026)

Google Cloud's weekly roundup features an Apigee webinar on MCP governance plus new tutorials for Apigee trace debugging and local testing. Read more

Proactive Defense: Hardening Code Pipelines and CI/CD Infrastructure (Google, Thursday, September 24th, 2026)

Google's threat intel team warns attackers increasingly compromise trusted CI/CD tools, IDEs, and pipeline credentials to attack builds. Read more

Introducing GKE Agentic Migration for AI-Assisted EKS-to-GKE Migrations with Built-In Governance (Google, Thursday, September 24th, 2026)

Google open-sourced GKE agentic migration, an AI agent plugin that automates AWS EKS-to-GKE migrations with guardrails against hallucinated changes. Read more

AlloyDB Delivers PostgreSQL for Agents: Real-Time Data at Agent Scale, with Full Workload Isolation (Google, Thursday, September 24th, 2026)

AlloyDB's new agentic database architecture (preview) gives AI agents real-time, read-only access to production data via isolated instances. Read more