Cloud Computing

The Gemini Live Agent Challenge is officially in the books! We challenged developers worldwide to break out of the traditional ‘text box’ paradigm by building next-generation AI agents. From our initial announcement to amassing 11,878 participants and 1,536 submitted projects from 151 countries, the results were nothing short of spectacular. The mission was to seamlessly

Written by: Austin Larsen, Tyler McLellan, Genevieve Stark, Dan Ebreo Introduction  Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has continued to track an expansive extortion campaign by UNC6671, a threat actor operating under the “BlackFile” brand, that targets organizations via sophisticated voice phishing (vishing) and single sign-on (SSO) compromise. By leveraging adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) techniques to bypass traditional

Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for May 2026. Today, Vinod D’Souza, director, Office of the CISO, shares highlights from his RSA Conference fireside chat with Anthony Belfiore, chief strategy officer, Wiz. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog. If you’re reading this

Every day, thousands of hours of new video content sits waiting to be discovered. Most of it lives in long-form, horizontal formats, while audiences are scrolling through vertical feeds on their phones. Glance, a mobile-first content platform, knows this challenge well. The company processes 1-2 hour videos from sources like podcasts, news reports, movies, and

What does transportation mean to you? For some, it’s making sure the train is on schedule so they can get to work on time. Maybe it’s making sure you have time connecting between flights. Maybe it’s about a stress-free commute. For others it’s the pleasure of walking around our cities or biking on trails. We

Databases have introduced new AI-powered SQL functions which take natural language instructions as input and are evaluated using LLMs. They leverage the power of LLMs to answer new kinds of queries: Which product reviews are negative about durability? Which customer support tickets have been resolved by providing a workaround?  These new AI functions push the

Organizations are increasingly drawn to open-source observability frameworks like OpenTelemetry. They seek to reduce costs associated with third-party licensing and avoid vendor lock-in. Combining OpenTelemetry collectors with Amazon CloudWatch Metric Streams helps enterprises pursue their observability goals while eliminating third-party licensing fees and achieving sub-minute latency for real-time alerting. CloudWatch Metric Streams offer built-in support