Cloud Computing

New in Looker: self-service Explores, tabbed dashboards, and custom themes

Data teams seem to be constantly balancing the need for governed, trusted metrics with business needs for agility and ad-hoc analysis. To help bridge the gap between managed reporting and rapid data exploration, we are introducing several new features in Looker, to expand users’ self-service capabilities. These updates allow individuals to analyze local data alongside

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Cloud CISO Perspectives: 2025 in review: Cloud security basics and evolving AI

Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for December 2025. Today, Google Cloud’s Nick Godfrey, senior director, and Anton Chuvakin, security advisor, look back at the year that was. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog. If you’re reading this on the website and

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Agent Factory Recap: Supercharging Agents on GKE with Agent Sandbox and Pod Snapshots

In the latest episode of the Agent Factory, Mofi Rahman and I had the pleasure of hosting, Brandon Royal, the PM working on agentic workloads on GKE. We dove deep into the critical questions around the nuances of choosing the right agent runtime, the power of GKE for agents, and the essential security measures needed

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Why Stochastic Rounding is Essential for Modern Generative AI

In computing’s early days of the 1940s, mathematicians discovered a flawed assumption about the behavior of round-off errors. Instead of canceling out, fixed-point arithmetic accumulated errors, compromising the accuracy of calculations. A few years later, “random round-off” was proposed, which would round up or down based on a random probability proportional to the remainder. In

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