What Google Cloud announced in AI this month – and how it helps you

Google Cloud's monthly AI roundup covers major announcements from Google Cloud Next, including the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform with four core pillars (build, scale, govern, optimize), new Gemini Enterprise app features like Agent Designer, long-running agents, Projects, and Agent Gallery. Hardware updates include 8th-generation TPUs (TPU 8t for training and TPU 8i for inference). Other highlights include the Agentic Data Cloud architecture, Wiz acquisition completion, new security capabilities for agentic workloads, Gemini Embedding 2 (first natively multimodal embedding model), Veo 3.1 Lite video generation, Claude 4.6 on Vertex AI, Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) for agentic commerce, and BigQuery's natural language Comments-to-SQL feature.