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GCP – A deep dive into AlloyDB’s vector search enhancements
If you’re building a generative AI application or an AI agent, there’s a high likelihood you’ll need to perform simultaneous searches on structured and unstructured data. For example, the prompt “Show me all pictures of sunsets I took in the past month” includes a structured part (the date is within the past month) and an […]

GCP – Introducing AI.GENERATE_TABLE: creating structured data from gen AI models in BigQuery
The explosion of digital content from social media, smartphones, and other sources has created a massive amount of unstructured data like images, videos, and documents. To help you analyze this data, BigQuery is connected with Vertex AI, Google Cloud’s powerful AI platform, so you can use advanced AI models, like Gemini 2.5 Pro/Flash, to understand […]

GCP – The AI-driven telecom: A new era of network transformation
The telecommunications industry is undergoing a profound transformation, with AI and generative AI emerging as key catalysts. Communication service providers (CSPs) are increasingly recognizing that these technologies are not merely incremental improvements but fundamental drivers for achieving strategic business and operational objectives. This includes enabling digital transformation, fostering service innovation, optimizing monetization strategies, and enhancing […]

GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: How Google Cloud’s security team helps build securely
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for May 2025. Today, Iain Mulholland, senior director, Security Engineering, pulls back the curtain on how Google Cloud approaches security engineering and how we take secure by design from mindset to production. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google […]

GCP – Advancing sovereignty, choice, and security in the cloud for our customers
Like most organizations, Google Cloud is continually engaging with customers, partners, and policymakers to deliver technology capabilities that reflect their needs. When it comes to digital sovereignty solutions, Google Cloud has worked with customers for nearly a decade. Today, we’re pleased to announce significant technical and commercial updates on our sovereign cloud solutions for customers, […]

AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports credential management with AWS Secrets Manager for databases using Oracle multitenant architecture
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports credential management with AWS Secrets Manager for databases that adopt Oracle multitenant architecture. Oracle multitenant architecture enables customers to consolidate data and code from multiple databases into one database by setting up a multitenant container database (CDB) that can include multiple pluggable databases (PDBs). With this launch, customers can […]

GCP – Gemini 2.5 Flash and Pro expand on Vertex AI to drive more sophisticated and secure AI innovation
Today at Google I/O, we’re expanding Gemini 2.5 Flash and Pro model capabilities that help enterprises build more sophisticated and secure AI-driven applications and agents: Thought summaries: For enterprise-grade AI, we’re bringing clarity and auditability with thought summaries. This feature organizes a model’s raw thoughts — including key details and tool usage — into a […]

GCP – Expanding Vertex AI with the next wave of generative AI media models
Today, we are introducing the next wave of generative AI media models on Vertex AI: Imagen 4, Veo 3, and Lyria 2. We’ve already seen customers generate stunning, photorealistic images with Imagen 3, Google’s image generation model. Customers have taken these images and transformed them into high quality videos and assets with Veo 2. We’ve […]

GCP – AI deployment made easy: Deploy your app to Cloud Run from AI Studio or MCP-compatible AI agents
Cloud Run has become a go-to app hosting solution for its remarkable simplicity, flexibility, and scalability. But the age of AI-assisted development is here, and going from idea to application is faster and more streamlined than ever. Today, we’re excited to make AI deployments easier and more accessible by introducing new ways to deploy your […]
GCP – Google AI Edge Portal: On-device machine learning testing at scale
Today, we’re excited to announce Google AI Edge Portal in private preview, Google Cloud’s new solution for testing and benchmarking on-device machine learning (ML) at scale. Machine learning on mobile devices enables amazing app experiences. But how will your model truly perform across the vast, diverse, and ever-changing landscape of mobile devices? Manually testing at […]