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Building next-gen visuals with Gemini 2.5 Flash Image on Vertex AI

Gemini 2.5 Flash Image is State of the Art (SOTA) for both generation and image editing. Developers and enterprises can access Gemini 2.5 Flash Image in preview today on Vertex AI.

By Jamie de Guerre • 4-minute read

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Containers & Kubernetes

Happy birthday, GKE! Let's celebrate with new features and better pricing

By Drew Bradstock • 4-minute read

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Infrastructure

How much energy does Google’s AI use? We did the math

By Amin Vahdat • 7-minute read

Data Cloud

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Databases

Announcing general availability of Firestore with MongoDB compatibility

By Minh Nguyen • 4-minute read

Data Analytics

Chat with your data from anywhere: Announcing Google’s Conversational Analytics API

By Richard Kuzma • 7-minute read

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Data Analytics

Enhancing BigQuery geospatial with Earth Engine raster analytics and map visualization

By Sheba Rasson • 7-minute read

AI & ML

AI & Machine Learning

Here’s which Google AI developer tool to use for each situation

By Richard Seroter • 6-minute read

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AI & Machine Learning

101+ gen AI use cases with technical blueprints

By Richard Seroter • 76-minute read

AI & Machine Learning

Google is a Leader and positioned furthest in vision in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Conversational AI Platforms

By Lisa O’Malley • 6-minute read

Security

Security & Identity

Google named a Leader in IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Incident Response 2025 Vendor Assessment

By Jurgen Kutscher • 4-minute read

Threat Intelligence

Widespread Data Theft Targets Salesforce Instances via Salesloft Drift

By Google Threat Intelligence Group • 10-minute read

Security & Identity

Announcing new capabilities for enabling defenders and securing AI innovation

By Jon Ramsey • 8-minute read

Infrastructure

Containers & Kubernetes

IP address management made easy: Announcing auto IPAM for GKE clusters

By Whitney Jenkins • 3-minute read

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Infrastructure Modernization

An efficient path to production AI: Kakao’s journey with JAX and Cloud TPUs

By Minho Ryu, Nayeon Kim • 7-minute read

Compute

Google is a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services

By Brad Calder • 6-minute read

Developers & Operators

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Developers & Practitioners

vLLM Performance Tuning: The Ultimate Guide to xPU Inference Configuration

By Eric Hanley • 19-minute read

Management Tools

Don’t just speculate, investigate! Gemini Cloud Assist now offers root-cause analysis

By Deepak Kallakuri • 5-minute read

AI & Machine Learning

How to build a real-time voice agent with Gemini and Google ADK

By Ashwini Kumar • 2-minute read

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AI & Machine Learning

What Google Cloud announced in AI this month

By Andrea Sanin • 30-minute read

Data Analytics

What’s new with Google Data Cloud

By The Google Cloud Data Analytics, BI, and Database teams • 16-minute read

Security & Identity

Cloud CISO Perspectives: How CISOs and boards can help fight cyber-enabled fraud

By David Stone • 6-minute read

Containers & Kubernetes

GKE under the hood: Container-optimized compute delivers fast autoscaling for Autopilot

By Abdel Sghiouar • 4-minute read

Public Sector

Defense Logistics Agency selects Google Public Sector to modernize global supply chain operations – the agency’s first AI-ready commercial cloud partnership

By Jim Kelly • 3-minute read

Google Cloud

Gemeinsam gegen Geldwäsche: Wie EuroDaT den sicheren Austausch sensibler Finanzdaten ermöglicht

By Google Cloud Marketing • 4-minute read

Hybrid & Multicloud

Run Gemini anywhere, including on-premises, with Google Distributed Cloud

By Vithal Shirodkar • 5-minute read

Storage & Data Transfer

Storage Insights datasets: How to optimize storage spend with deep visibility

By Misha Sheth • 9-minute read

Startups

Google for Startups Accelerator: AI First – Meet the 2025 Brazilian cohort

By Henry Couto • 3-minute read

Developers & Practitioners

Five ways Skopeo can simplify your Google Cloud container workflow

By Karl Weinmeister • 9-minute read