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Volume 343, Issue 1 · 14 articles

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Google Cloud Unveils Persistent Gemini Agents for Long-Running Tasks, and They Get Their Own Gmail, Calendar, and Drive Storage (VentureBeat, Thursday, October 8th, 2026)

Google unveils a persistent Gemini agent that handles multi-day work tasks with its own memory, identity and Workspace accounts. Read more

Google Overhauls Cloud Modernization Portfolio With New AI Agents (Network World, Tuesday, October 6th, 2026)

Google consolidates its migration tools under Google Cloud Modernize, adding an EKS-to-GKE migration agent and a new Modernization Hub. Read more

We're Making It Easier to Identify AI-Generated Content Globally (Google, Wednesday, October 7th, 2026)

Google DeepMind is opening its SynthID Detector to everyone globally in English to check whether media was made with AI. Read more

Sign In Quickly and Securely With Passkeys (Google, Thursday, October 8th, 2026)

For Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Google encourages users to replace passwords with phishing-resistant passkeys on their Google Account. Read more

Networking for AI Inference Model Serving - GKE Only and for All Other Backends (Google, Tuesday, October 6th, 2026)

Google Cloud presents two reference networking architectures for serving AI inference models, one for GKE and one for other backends. Read more

Modernizing Unstructured Data Workflows: Alteryx Live Query Meets Google Cloud BigQuery (Google, Friday, October 9th, 2026)

Alteryx One Live Query with BigQuery pushes no-code pipeline logic into the warehouse and uses Gemini to extract data from PDFs and images. Read more

Welcome to Gemini at Work 2026: Introducing the Gemini Agent (Google, Thursday, October 8th, 2026)

Thomas Kurian introduced the Gemini agent, a universal work agent built into Workspace with new data skills, governance and cost controls. Read more

What's New With Google Data Cloud (Google, Friday, October 9th, 2026)

Google's data cloud roundup covers GA of Data Agent Kit and Spanner Omni plus AlloyDB PostgreSQL for agents and BM25 hybrid search. Read more

Introducing Google Cloud Modernize, Transforming for (and With) AI (Google, Monday, October 5th, 2026)

Google Cloud Modernize bundles migration tools, a new Modernization Hub and agentic assessment into one AI-driven transformation portfolio. Read more

Announcing MCP Toolbox Java SDK v1.0: Agentic Data Access for the Enterprise (Google, Tuesday, October 6th, 2026)

Google's MCP Toolbox Java SDK hit v1.0, bringing type-safe agent access to enterprise databases via the Model Context Protocol. Read more

Introducing Google Cloud's U4 Compute: Enabling Ultra-Low Latency Trading (Google, Wednesday, October 7th, 2026)

Google Cloud made its Ultra Low Latency Solution and new U4 machine family generally available for high-frequency trading. Read more

EmbeddingGemma 2: An Open, Lightweight Multimodal Embedding Model (Google, Tuesday, October 6th, 2026)

Google released EmbeddingGemma 2, a 740M-parameter open model that embeds text, code, images, audio and video on-device. Read more

AlloyDB: A Unified Database Engine for Hybrid Search (Google, Tuesday, October 6th, 2026)

AlloyDB AI adds a single SQL function for hybrid vector and full-text search using Reciprocal Rank Fusion, plus BM25 and RUM indexes. Read more

Managed Apache Iceberg at Scale: How Spanner Powers Lakehouse Runtime Catalog (Google, Tuesday, October 6th, 2026)

Google explains how its serverless Lakehouse runtime catalog uses Spanner to provide a scalable managed Apache Iceberg REST catalog. Read more

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