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Building a conversational agent in BigQuery using the Conversational Analytics API

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Bringing data into BigQuery centralizes your information, but the real challenge is making that data accessible. Often, technical barriers separate the people with questions — from execs to analysts — from the answers they need. With the Conversational Analytics API, powered by Gemini, you no longer need intricate systems to get insights. The API is […]

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Simplify your AI workflow with autonomous embedding generation in BigQuery

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In the world of generative AI and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), embeddings are the “secret sauce” that allow machines and AI agents to understand the semantic meaning of data. As BigQuery extends its autonomous data-to-AI platform, embeddings unblock valuable multimodal use cases. However, for many data engineers, managing embeddings is a headache. Traditionally, users have to

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Using Google Cloud AI to measure the physics of U.S. freestyle snowboarding and skiing

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Nearly every snowboard trick carries a number. A 1080 means three full rotations. A 1440 means four. The convention is simple: add up every rotation around every axis and count in 180° increments. For decades it’s served as the sport’s universal shorthand for difficulty. Judges, coaches, and athletes all speak this language fluently. It’s also,

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Sovereignty and European competitiveness: A partnership-led approach to AI growth

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In our conversations with business and policy leaders across Europe, we have listened closely to their concerns about sovereignty and European competitiveness. It is clear that they often find themselves caught in a paradox that Europe must choose between autonomy and growth. At Google Cloud, we believe that this is a false choice, and a

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Decommission your legacy Apache Cassandra stack and build for the future with Spanner

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An increasing number of customers are migrating to Spanner from legacy NoSQL environments like Apache Cassandra. The strategic drivers are evident: a markedly lower total cost of ownership (TCO), elastic scalability, and near-zero maintenance overhead.  With the general availability of the native endpoint enabling Cassandra Query Language (CQL) APIs on Spanner, your existing Cassandra applications

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Powering the next generation of agents with Google Cloud databases

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For developers building AI applications, including custom agents and chatbots, the open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) standard enables your innovations to access data and tools consistently and securely. At the end of 2025, we introduced managed and remote MCP support for services like Google Maps and BigQuery, establishing a standard method for AI to connect

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Google (Spanner) Ranks #1 for Lightweight Transactions Use Case in Gartner® Critical Capabilities Report

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For the second consecutive year Google (Spanner) has been recognized by Gartner in the Critical Capabilities for Cloud Database Management Systems for Operational Use Cases report, where it ranked #1 in the Lightweight Transactions Use Case. In our opinion, this is a testament to its efficiency, low latency, and high-performance consistency. It was also ranked

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Cloud CISO Perspectives: New AI threats report: Distillation, experimentation, and integration

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Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for February 2026. Today, John Hultquist, chief analyst, Google Threat Intelligence Group, explains the research detailed in our newest AI Threat Tracker report. 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

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