Cloud Computing

Claude Opus 4.7 on Vertex AI

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Claude Opus 4.7 on Vertex AI.  What’s new: Anthropic’s newest Opus model delivers advanced performance across coding, long-running agents, and professional tasks. As an upgrade from Claude Opus 4.6, Opus 4.7 works better through ambiguity, is more thorough in its problem solving, and follows instructions more precisely. Opus […]

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Multi-region endpoints are available for Claude on Vertex AI

Today, we’re announcing U.S. and EU multi-region endpoints for Claude on Vertex AI are available in public preview. By pooling capacity across multiple regions, these endpoints dynamically route requests to help improve reliability, while ensuring your data processing remains within your preferred geography to meet your compliance needs. Available in the U.S. and EU, this

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Cloud CISO Perspectives: How CISOs can pursue technical and cultural resilience (Q&A)

Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for April 2026. Today, Thiébaut Meyer and Lia Wertheimer from Google Cloud’s Office of the CISO share Thiébaut’s conversation with Matt Rowe, chief security officer, Lloyds Banking Group, on how security leaders can simultaneously pursue technical and cultural resilience. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of

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Guide to prompting Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS (text-to-speech)

Today, Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS, our latest text-to-speech model, is available on Google AI Studio and Vertex AI. It delivers precise controllability and expressivity, empowering developers and enterprises to build advanced AI-speech applications. The new TTS model introduces a high level of controllability by allowing you to steer the delivery using 200+ audio tags. We’ll

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The German Cyber Criminal Überfall: Shifts in Europe’s Data Leak Landscape

Written by: Jamie Collier, Robin Grunewald Germany has reclaimed its position as a primary focus for cyber extortion in Europe. While data leak site (DLS) posts rose almost 50% globally in 2025, Google Threat Intelligence (GTI) data shows that the surge is hitting German infrastructure harder and faster than its regional neighbors, marking a significant

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Introducing BigQuery Graph: Unlock hidden relationships in your data

Today, we’re thrilled to announce that BigQuery Graph is now available in preview. With BigQuery Graph, we’ve built an easy-to-use, highly scalable graph analytics solution for data engineers, data analysts, data scientists, and AI developers, empowering them to model, analyze and visualize massive-scale relationships in an entirely new way.  As data changes and grows, it’s

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From operational to analytical: The unified Spanner Graph and BigQuery Graph solution

Understanding the relationships within your data is crucial for uncovering hidden insights and building intelligent applications. However, managing operational (OLTP) and analytical (OLAP) graph workloads usually means wrestling with disconnected databases, building brittle data pipelines, and managing complex integrations. This fragmentation creates data silos, increases operational overhead, and limits scalability. Today, we’re thrilled to introduce

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