GCP – Top 25 blogs of 2025… so far
Six months into 2025, we’ve already published hundreds of posts here on the Google Cloud blog. We asked ourselves, why wait until the busy end of the year to review your favorites? With everything from new AI models, product launches, emerging cyber threats, company news, certifications and customer stories, here is a mid-year recap that will get you up to speed on the latest from Google Cloud and the rapidly emerging cloud and AI landscape.
25. How Google Does It: Making threat detection high-quality, scalable, and modern
Published January 7, 2025
Google and Alphabet run the largest Linux fleet in the world, with nearly every flavor of operating system available, and see a steady stream of malicious system and network activity. Learn how our threat detection and response team detects, analyzes, and responds to threats on a vast scale.
24. Cloud Run GPUs are now generally available
Published June 2, 2025
More and more organizations are turning to Cloud Run, Google Cloud’s serverless runtime, for its simplicity, flexibility, and scalability. And now, with the general availability of NVIDIA GPUs on the platform, developers can choose Cloud Run for applications that require powerful graphics processing, like machine learning models.
23. BigQuery emerges as autonomous data-to-AI platform
Published April 10, 2025
This is not your grandfather’s data warehouse. BigQuery is now an AI-native, multimodal, and agentic data-to-AI platform. The blog post provides an overview of the many new features and capabilities that went into this new designation, including new data preparation, data analysis, code generation and management and troubleshooting capabilities.
22. Announcing Gen AI Toolbox for Databases. Get started today
Published February 6, 2025
Tired of building custom plumbing to connect your AI apps to your databases? This article announces the public beta of the Gen AI Toolbox for Databases, an open-source server built with LangChain that provides a secure, scalable, and manageable way to connect your generative AI applications to your data.
21. Ghost in the router: China-nexus espionage actor UNC3886 targets Juniper Networks
Published March 11, 2025
After discovering in 2024 that threat actors deployed custom backdoors to Juniper Networks’ Junos OS routers, Mandiant worked with Juniper to investigate this activity and observed that the affected routers were running end-of-life hardware and software. Learn more about the threat and how to remediate it in your environment.
20. What’s new with AI Hypercomputer?
Published April 9, 2025
It’s a platform, it’s a system, it’s AI Hypercomputer, Google Cloud’s fully managed supercomputing system for running AI and HPC workloads. As discussed at Google Cloud Next 2025, AI Hypercomputer supports all the latest and greatest compute, networking and storage infrastructure, and its software layer helps AI practitioners and engineers move faster with open and popular ML frameworks. Finally, there’s a full suite of workload management and observability tools to help you manage the thing.
19. Ipsos research shows why cloud certification matters — get certified with Google Cloud
Published February 25, 2025
Google Cloud partnered with Ipsos, the global research firm, to study the impact of cloud certifications on career advancement and achievement. For example, 8 out of 10 survey respondents said earning a recognized certificate helped them land a job faster and 75% believe they secured a higher salary through their certification.
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18. Connect globally with Cloud WAN for the AI Era
Published April 9, 2025
With 202 points of presence (PoPs), powered by over 2 million miles of fiber, 33 subsea cables, and backed by a 99.99% reliability SLA, Google’s backbone network is, how do we put it? Vast. And with Cloud WAN, enterprises can now use it for their own wide area network (WAN) architectures.
17. Expanding generative media for enterprise on Vertex AI
Published April 9, 2025
At Google Cloud Next 25, we announced powerful new creative controls for our generative media models on Vertex AI. Now you can edit video with in-painting and out-painting, use camera controls for dynamic shots, and even create custom voices for AI-powered narration with as little as 10 seconds of audio.
16. Suspected China-nexus threat actor actively exploiting critical Ivanti Connect Secure vulnerability
Published April 3, 2025
Threat actors continue to target edge devices globally, leveraging deep device knowledge and using both zero-day and now n-day flaws. This activity aligns with the broader strategy that the Google Threat Intelligence Group has observed among suspected China-nexus espionage groups, who invest significantly in exploits and custom malware for critical edge infrastructure.
15. Defending against UNC3944: Cybercrime hardening guidance from the frontlines
Published May 6, 2025
Who is UNC3944? A financially-motivated threat actor characterized by its persistent use of social engineering and brazen communications with victims. Mandiant provides guidance and strategies for hardening systems and defenses against the cybercrime group, offering practical steps to protect against their specific attack methods.
14. MCP Toolbox for Databases (formerly Gen AI Toolbox for Databases)
Published April 22, 2025
Ready to build AI agents that can actually use your data? This article announces that our MCP Toolbox for Databases now supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP), making it easier than ever to connect your generative AI agents to enterprise data. With new support for the Agent Development Kit (ADK) and LangGraph, you can build powerful, stateful agents with intuitive code and connect them to your databases securely.
13. Formula E’s AI equation: A new Driver Agent for the next era of racing
Published March 25, 2025
As motorsport has grown in popularity, the ability of fans from diverse backgrounds to enter the cockpit has not always kept up. Formula E sought to level the course for aspiring drivers by creating an AI-powered Driver Agent; connected to a Formula E simulator, the agent provides drivers and coaches with real-time feedback on technique and tactics, help them improve faster than a flying lap.
12. Google Agentspace enables the agent-driven enterprise
Published April 9, 2025
Do you want to search all your company’s information in a few clicks, or generate ideas with built-in agents that already know your company’s style? Google Agentspace now includes a no-code agent designer, a gallery for discovering agents, and two new expert agents for deep research and idea generation, all integrated directly into Chrome.
11. Announcing Veo 3, Imagen 4, and Lyria 2 on Vertex AI
Published May 20, 2025
The next generation of creating for enterprise is here. We expanded Vertex AI to include our most powerful generative AI media models: Imagen 4 for stunningly realistic images with crisp text, Veo 3 for breathtaking video with synchronized audio, and Lyria 2 for composing high-fidelity, original music.
10. Adversarial misuse of generative AI
Published January 19, 2025
In the security realm, large language models (LLMs) open a world of new possibilities, from sifting through complex telemetry to secure coding, vulnerability discovery, and streamlining operations. However, some of these same AI capabilities are also available to attackers, leading to understandable anxieties about the potential for AI to be misused for malicious purposes.
9. Ivanti Connect Secure VPN targeted in new zero-day exploitation
Published January 8, 2025
Ivanti kicked off the year by disclosing two new vulnerabilities impacting its Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) VPN appliances. Mandiant identified UNC5221, a suspected China-nexus espionage actor that previously exploited two other Ivanti vulnerabilities as early as December 2023, as the threat actor targeting the new zero-days. Successfully exploiting one of the vulnerabilities could result in downstream compromise of a victim network.
8. Google announces agreement to acquire Wiz
Published March 18, 2025
Google Cloud shares a vision with Wiz to improve security by making it easier and faster for organizations of all types and sizes to protect themselves, end-to-end, across all major clouds, and this post announces Google’s agreement to acquire the cloud security startup.
7. Veo 3 available for everyone in preview on Vertex AI
Published June 26, 2025
You dream it, Veo creates it. This post announces Veo 3, our most powerful text-to-video model yet, is now open for everyone to try in public preview on Vertex AI. Create stunning, near-cinematic videos with synchronized sound, and join the next wave of creative storytelling, now available to Google Cloud customers and partners.
6. Vertex AI offers new ways to build and manage multi-agent systems
Published April 9, 2025
This article announces ways to build multi-agentic systems, an evolution of traditional AI agents. To get there, we launched a new suite of tools in Vertex AI to help developers build and deploy them, including an open-source Agent Development Kit (ADK) and a managed Agent Engine. We also introduce the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol, a new open standard to allow agents built by different companies to communicate and collaborate.
5. Techniques for improving text-to-SQL
Published May 16, 2025
Even though it’s been around for a long time, not all developers speak fluent SQL. English, on the other hand, is pretty well-known. In this technical deep dive for developers working with natural language processing and databases, get the insights and techniques you need to enhance the accuracy and performance of your text-to-SQL conversions.
4. Firebase Studio lets you build full-stack AI apps with Gemini
Published April 9, 2025
For over a decade, developers the world over have relied on Firebase’s backend cloud computing services and application development platforms to power their web applications. And with the new Firebase Studio, they can now use it to develop full-stack AI applications, integrating with the Gemini AI model.
3. Multiple Russia-aligned threat actors targeting Signal Messenger
Published February 19, 2025
As part of the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Signal Messenger accounts are of great interest to Russia’s intelligence services for their potential to deliver sensitive government and military communications. Google Threat Intelligence Group has observed increasing efforts from several Russia state-aligned threat actors to compromise Signal Messenger accounts used by individuals of interest to Russia’s intelligence services.
2. New Google Cloud certification in generative AI
One of the top questions we hear is “how do I get ahead”? This isn’t just another certification in a sea of technical qualifications. The Generative AI Leader certification is specifically focused on generative AI, and designed for visionary professionals like you — the managers, administrators, strategic leaders and more who understand that AI’s impact stretches far beyond code.
1. 601 real-world gen AI use cases from the world’s leading organizations
Published April 9, 2025
Since Next 2024, we’ve been gathering examples of how our customers are putting generative AI to use everyday across their operations and offerings. We nearly doubled the number of entries for Next 2025, and clearly they’re still resonating, as this has been our most popular story of the year. What use cases are most exciting you? Pop over to our LinkedIn page and let us know.
Thank you for being a part of the Google Cloud blog community! We look forward to bringing you lots more blogs for you to devour in the second half of the year.
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