Everyone heading into Google Cloud Next this week is bracing for another wave of artificial intelligence announcements. More Gemini. More agents. More benchmarks. More onstage demos that look great in a keynote and disappear into a slide deck by Friday.

Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian opened the conference with a unified vision for agentic artificial intelligence.

Google Cloud Next 2026 unveiled a new $750 million partner fund, Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, next-gen Tensor Processing Units and Workspace Intelligence.

At Cloud Next this week in Las Vegas, Google made its case this week that it has all the pieces — literally the entire “stack” of technologies from chips to models to data management platforms — needed to provide essentially the operating system for AI agents,

Google launches AI agent suite at Cloud Next 2026 with Workspace Studio, A2A protocol at 150 orgs, and Project Mariner. The pitch: only Google owns the full stack.

Google Cloud Next 2026 opened with major AI-focused announcements, including the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and eighth-generation Tensor Processing Units (TPUs). CEO Thomas Kurian emphasized Google’s ‘full-stack’ integration of hardware, AI ...

At Google Cloud Next in Las Vegas, the audience was backing AI all the way to the bank. But as AI turns up in everything, everywhere, all at once, we’re going to need to get a lot stricter about what we use it for.

Google's once-forgotten Cloud division is making a run on the strength of Gemini.