Google Cloud Next '26 recap covering 260 announcements made at the Las Vegas conference. Key highlights include the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (evolution of Vertex AI) with 15+ new agent capabilities including ADK, Agent Studio, Agent Runtime, Agent Memory Bank, and Agent Identity. New 8th-gen TPUs (8t for training, 8i for inference) deliver up to 3x and 80% better performance-per-dollar respectively. The Agentic Data Cloud introduces Knowledge Catalog, cross-cloud lakehouse improvements, and extensive BigQuery AI enhancements. GKE gains agent sandbox, hypercluster, and inference optimizations. Firebase, Cloud Run, and networking also received major updates. Over 300 new customer AI use cases were added, with deployments from Citi, Deutsche Telekom, Home Depot, Mars, Merck, and others going into production.
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