Cloud Computing

Executive Summary  Since the release of our May 2026 report detailing adversarial misuse of artificial intelligence (AI), Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has observed forward leaning adversaries transition from basic prompting to agentic AI workflows and AI-enabled automation. In these operations, human-in-the-loop latency is dramatically reduced, compressing the traditional window for defenders to respond. In […]

When Google’s Finance Engineering team needed to modernize their legacy data layer, they chose Spanner, a globally distributed, strongly consistent, multi-model database with high availability capabilities. But migrating to Spanner without taking production services offline was a daunting engineering challenge: As the internal team responsible for the application, we needed to manually rewrite dual-write logic

Moving Large Language Models (LLMs) from experimental prototypes into enterprise production exposes a critical truth: your infrastructure dictates both your performance ceilings and your unit economics. Standard hardware benchmarks often ignore a fundamental reality—not all LLM requests stress the silicon in the same way. In this post, we dive into a comprehensive benchmarking exercise comparing

For the ninth consecutive year, Gartner® has named Google a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Strategic Cloud Platform Services, positioned furthest for Completeness of Vision. We believe this recognition reflects our longstanding dedication to helping customers build and scale their most demanding workloads reliably and securely on Google Cloud. As we enter the

Integrating modern generative AI capabilities into Kotlin applications shouldn’t require juggling raw HTTP clients or bridging disparate Java libraries. Today, we’re excited to announce the 1.0 release of the Google Gen AI SDK for Kotlin (google-genai-kotlin). You can dive right into the code, explore runnable samples, and star the project today on GitHub at googleapis/kotlin-genai.