Cloud Computing

AI infrastructure efficiency: Ironwood TPUs deliver 3.7x carbon efficiency gains

At Google, we are committed to being transparent about the environmental impact of our AI infrastructure, publishing metrics on the lifetime emissions of our chips — from manufacturing to powering these chips in the data center. Today, we are updating these metrics for our seventh-generation TPU, Ironwood, which demonstrates an approximately 3.7x improvement in Compute […]

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Introducing Looker self-service Explores for faster ad-hoc analysis

By design, Looker is the enterprise semantic platform which ensures that every data set meets a high standard of accuracy by acting as a single source of truth and providing long-term consistency of your metrics. Today, we are introducing a complement to this governed framework: self-service Explores, to accelerate high-velocity, ad-hoc analysis. Self-service Explores allows

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How a leading consumer insight brand uses Dataproc to hyper-personalise faster

At RVU, we have a clear and vital mission: empower people, transform industries.  For our market-leading home management and switching brands — Confused.com, Uswitch, Tempcover, Money.co.uk, and Mojo Mortgages — transparency and accurate information are everything. Today’s consumer expects more than a simple comparison table; they want personalized recommendations tailored to their unique circumstances.  Delivering

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Conversational Analytics now available for Looker Embedded environments

Looker Embedded analytics are at the heart of many next-generation data products, enabling monetization with live metrics and customizable user experiences. In the AI era, users expect apps to be highly interactive and conversational, and for data to be contextual, accessible and intuitive. Today, we are delivering conversational analytics in Looker Embedded environments with the

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Envoy: A future-ready foundation for agentic AI networking

In today’s agentic AI environments, the network has a new set of responsibilities. In a traditional application stack, the network mainly moves requests between services. But as discussed in a recent white paper, Cloud Infrastructure in the Agent-Native Era, in an agentic system the network sits in the middle of model calls, tool invocations, agent-to-agent

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Introducing Veo 3.1 Lite and a new Veo upscaling capability on Vertex AI

We are introducing Veo 3.1 Lite, Google’s most cost-effective video model on Vertex AI.  Alongside this new model, we are also launching a new, standalone Veo upscaling capability on Vertex AI to help you enhance your existing video assets. Choosing the right Veo model for your workload When integrating video generation into your applications, matching

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How Honeylove boosts product quality and service efficiency with BigQuery

Building the perfect bra takes thousands of data points. That’s why Honeylove isn’t just another intimates brand. We’re a technology company that happens to make exceptional bras, tops, shapewear, and bodysuits. Technology shapes everything we do, from how we iterate garments based on customer feedback to how we optimize sizing across those thousands of data

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Smithy Kotlin client code generation now generally available

Smithy Kotlin client code generation is now generally available. With Smithy Kotlin, you can keep client libraries in sync with evolving service APIs. By using client code generation, you can reduce repetitive work and instead, automatically create type-safe Kotlin clients from your service models. In this post, you will learn what Smithy Kotlin client generation is,

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