TechniqueRLHF / Alignment8 recent entries24 Sept 2026How Google Cloud Networking Supports Your Fluid Compute Choices for AI WorkloadsThe availability of resources for AI workloads can be challenging across the industry, especially accelerators. This can slow your AI workload deployment if it’s built around a specific type of accele→25 Sept 2026Unlock 3x QPS and microsecond latency with Memorystore for Valkey 9.1At Google Cloud, we are committed to delivering the best managed experience backed by open source software. Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Memorystore for Valkey 9.1, which achiev
TechniqueRAG8 recent entries8 Sept 2026How KDDI built Buffmee, a faster, reliable consumer RAG appWhen building consumer-facing generative AI applications, balancing high generation quality with fast response times across diverse media types, can be challenging. KDDI, a major telecommunications ca→8 Sept 2026GTIG AI Threat Tracker: From Prompting to Autonomy – The Evolution of Adversarial AIExecutive 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 adversarie→16 Sept 2026M4N VM family, now GA: Highest per-core IOPS and throughput for I/O and memory-bound workloadsAs enterprise organizations scale mission-critical applications, storage I/O and memory access can become severe operational bottlenecks. Whether its Oracle databases, in-memory databases like SAP HAN→18 Sept 2026The DevFest Community Workshop Experience: Building Real Agents TogetherThis week we kicked off the DevFest season in North America at Google Hudson Square in New York City with 80 engineers packed into the room. Typical technical workshops hand you a finished repo, tell →18 Sept 2026Announcing Native BM25 Ranking in AlloyDB and Cloud SQLVector search is a critical component of generative AI, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and data agent architectures, but sometimes vector search alone isn't enough. While vector embeddings are →29 Sept 2026Google Cloud partners deliver new security agents and AI defenses with Gemini EnterpriseAs threat actors increasingly use AI to accelerate and develop cyberattacks, enterprise defenders need to rely on both AI and a critical defender’s advantage: Business context that only you possess. E→6 Oct 2026Announcing MCP Toolbox Java SDK v1.0: Agentic data access for the enterpriseCo-authors:Stenal Jolly, Strategic Cloud Engineer, GoogleAnubhav Dhawan, Software Engineer, Google Following the landmark announcement of MCP Toolbox v1.0, we're thrilled to announce that the MCP Tool→6 Oct 2026AlloyDB: A unified database engine for hybrid searchFor modern AI and RAG applications, achieving high search relevance requires that you combine at least two techniques: vector search for semantic context, and full-text search (FTS) for keyword precis
TechniqueAgents8 recent entries8 Oct 2026Welcome to Gemini at Work 2026: Introducing the Gemini agentEditor’s note: This article is adapted from Thomas Kurian’s keynote address at Gemini at Work 2026. It includes a number of announcements: Gemini, a single, universal agent for work that answers your →8 Oct 2026Innovation in Ireland: How Irish brands scale with Gemini EnterpriseIn recent decades, Ireland has grown into a vibrant hub for global technology. As modernization accelerates, Irish organizations — spanning government agencies, established enterprise brands, and grow→8 Oct 2026Google Public Sector and SUNY launch AI-enabled platform to accelerate university researchPublic research universities solve some of society’s most urgent challenges, but turning ideas into breakthroughs requires fast, secure access to cutting edge technology. In the agentic AI era institu→8 Oct 2026Empowering SMBs to do more with GeminiToday, we announced the new Gemini agent, your single, universal agent for work. For small and midsize businesses, with lean teams and margins, Gemini will be a critical tool for you to operate effici→9 Oct 2026Modernizing Unstructured Data Workflows: Alteryx Live Query meets Google Cloud BigQueryAlteryx One Live Query and Google Cloud BigQuery redefine how enterprises handle complex, unstructured data at scale by reducing reliance on disconnected tools, minimizing data movement, and enabling →12 Oct 2026Trusted Data Apps for the Agentic Data Cloud, powered by LookerAs a business intelligence user, this probably sounds familiar: Most dashboards only provide you with a standardized canvas and a fixed library of charts, and the “analysis” consists of a CSV export t→12 Oct 2026Agentic data science with the Data Agent KitImagine your compliance team notices that payments are taking longer than expected to clear. They suspect fraud, and you’re the data scientist helping figure out which transactions to investigate firs→12 Oct 202610 Years of the SRE book: Announcing the second edition of 'Site Reliability Engineering”A decade ago, Google released Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems with O'Reilly Media. What began as a collection of our practices for managing large-scale infrastructure
TechniqueFine-tuning8 recent entries16 Sept 2026Cloud CISO Perspectives: How Google monitors AI threats and advances AI defensesWelcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for September 2026. Today, Sandra Joyce shares the latest details on Google’s visibility into how attackers are using AI, and how we’re using AI to stop th→17 Sept 2026Google named a Leader in the External Threat Intelligence Service Forrester Wave™At Google, we see firsthand how the speed, scale, and sophistication of cyber threats continue to challenge traditional enterprise defenses. Today’s defenders can’t rely on reactive triage or fragment→21 Sept 2026Scale your AI workloads faster and more efficiently with GKE Pod snapshotsWhen running modern AI workloads, there’s often a conflict between performance and cost. Workloads like large language models (LLMs) load massive files, and may serve thousands of AI agents that need →24 Sept 2026Google is a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Container ManagementWe’re excited and proud to share that Gartner has recognized Google as a Leader for the fourth year in a row in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management, based on its Completeness of→25 Sept 2026Best practices guide for customizing Gemini models via Reinforcement Learning (RL)Reinforcement learning (RL) has been a keystone of modern LLM post-training, but it demands large training clusters and access to model internals that external customers can't have with proprietary mo→28 Sept 2026Why your startup needs open models alongside frontier APIsEvery week, I talk with founders who are building at an unbelievable pace. Teams are moving from inception to product-market fit faster than ever, with foundation models wired deeply into their core p→30 Sept 2026Cloud CISO Perspectives: How cybersecurity startups can win CISOsWelcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for September 2026. Today, Alicja Cade and Nick Godfrey, senior directors, Office of the CISO, share their guidance for cybersecurity startups on how to w→12 Oct 202610 Years of the SRE book: Announcing the second edition of 'Site Reliability Engineering”A decade ago, Google released Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems with O'Reilly Media. What began as a collection of our practices for managing large-scale infrastructure
TechniqueMultimodal8 recent entries24 Sept 2026Scribd, Inc. classifies more than 400 million documents with Gemini batch inference on Gemini EnterpriseScribd, Inc. is home to one of the world's largest collections of human-created content. Scribd’s products leverage one of the world's largest collections of human-created content and intelligent tool→24 Sept 2026Power your agents: Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar is now generally availableFollowing our announcement of Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking last week, we are thrilled to share that Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar is now generally available in Gemini Enter→24 Sept 2026How growing Latin American midsize businesses are building in the AI eraLatin America’s small and medium-sized businesses are the heartbeat of the region's economy — accounting for more than 60% of total employment in the region, according to United Nations estimates. And→28 Sept 2026Why your startup needs open models alongside frontier APIsEvery week, I talk with founders who are building at an unbelievable pace. Teams are moving from inception to product-market fit faster than ever, with foundation models wired deeply into their core p→1 Oct 2026Introducing the Server Side Cloud Swift SDKFor years, Swift was perceived mainly as a UI language tied to Apple client devices. With the release of Swift 6 and strict concurrency checking, Swift has matured into a premier systems with cloud en→6 Oct 2026Where mission meets moonshot: Join us at the Google Public Sector Summit 2026Across the public sector, the question has shifted from “what’s possible?” to “how can we drive mission impact?” We’ll be answering this question at the Google Public Sector Summit on October 20th at →6 Oct 2026Managed Apache Iceberg at scale: How Spanner powers Lakehouse runtime catalogAs customers modernize to lakehouse architectures, they are standardizing on open formats such as Apache Iceberg to create a shared data estate across compatible engines. This enables you to build AI-→8 Oct 2026Welcome to Gemini at Work 2026: Introducing the Gemini agentEditor’s note: This article is adapted from Thomas Kurian’s keynote address at Gemini at Work 2026. It includes a number of announcements: Gemini, a single, universal agent for work that answers your
TechniqueSafety8 recent entries29 Sept 2026Google Cloud partners deliver new security agents and AI defenses with Gemini EnterpriseAs threat actors increasingly use AI to accelerate and develop cyberattacks, enterprise defenders need to rely on both AI and a critical defender’s advantage: Business context that only you possess. E→30 Sept 2026Vulnerability Discovery and Exploitation Trends in the AI EraWritten by: Robin Grunewald, Supriya Mazumdar, Kelli Vanderlee Introduction Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) examines vulnerability disclosure and exploitation statistics to evaluate the impact→1 Oct 2026Introducing the Server Side Cloud Swift SDKFor years, Swift was perceived mainly as a UI language tied to Apple client devices. With the release of Swift 6 and strict concurrency checking, Swift has matured into a premier systems with cloud en→2 Oct 2026How to implement long-term AI agent memory in AlloyDB and Memorystore for ValkeyEnterprise AI agents need persistent memory to execute complex, multi-day workflows and long-horizon tasks. In this blog, we examine how a 2-tier memory architecture using Memorystore for Valkey for s→2 Oct 2026AI21 achieves an 83% reduction in time-to-start for AI workloads with AI HypercomputerEditor’s note: AI21 Labs is a leading global AI lab with a long track record of building foundation models, most notably the Jamba family, and today focuses on specialized LLMs and agent optimization →6 Oct 2026Networking for AI inference model serving - GKE only and for all other backendsEnterprises and individual developers frequently run multiple AI inference models. The right architecture can simplify how the models are called while also providing centralized governance. In this po→6 Oct 2026Announcing MCP Toolbox Java SDK v1.0: Agentic data access for the enterpriseCo-authors:Stenal Jolly, Strategic Cloud Engineer, GoogleAnubhav Dhawan, Software Engineer, Google Following the landmark announcement of MCP Toolbox v1.0, we're thrilled to announce that the MCP Tool→8 Oct 2026Welcome to Gemini at Work 2026: Introducing the Gemini agentEditor’s note: This article is adapted from Thomas Kurian’s keynote address at Gemini at Work 2026. It includes a number of announcements: Gemini, a single, universal agent for work that answers your