Google Cloud announced IAM group authentication for AlloyDB, now in preview, to simplify identity-driven access control at enterprise scale and support AI agent workloads. The feature allows security …
Google Cloud announced the general availability of BigQuery Conversational Analytics and the Conversational Analytics API, adding to the existing GA of Conversational Analytics in Looker, with Convers…
Google Cloud's AlloyDB, a PostgreSQL-compatible database, now delivers up to 4x faster HNSW vector search via its columnar engine, as demonstrated by benchmarks on the GloVe 100 Angular dataset with o…
AlloyDB AI now integrates Gemini models natively to solve PostgreSQL's full-text search limitations for logographical languages like Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where traditional whitespace-based t…
Google announced the general availability of AlloyDB AI functions, which allow developers to call large language models directly within SQL queries, along with two acceleration techniques: smart batch…
SOCRadar, a cybersecurity company providing threat intelligence, migrated from PostgreSQL to Google Cloud's AlloyDB and achieved a 20x performance boost. The move enabled sub-second query latency for …
Google Cloud announced performance boosts and cost savings for AlloyDB AI functions, including the general availability of core functions like ai.generate, ai.rank, ai.if, and ai.forecast, and the int…
Google announced new data agents and tools for its Agentic Data Cloud, including Conversational Analytics across BigQuery, Lakehouse, AlloyDB, Spanner, and Cloud SQL, as well as Data Engineering, Data…
Google Cloud announced the general availability of the Remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server for AlloyDB, a fully-managed service that connects AI agents to enterprise data in real time via HTTP …
At Google I/O ‘26, Google announced new cost-effective frontier models for startups, including Gemini 3.5 Flash for agentic tasks and Gemini Omni for dynamic video content creation. The company also i…
Launch of Data Agent Kit, an open-source collection of tools and plugins designed to unify the fragmented landscape of data engineering and agentic development. It integrates directly into existing de…
Google announced managed and remote MCP support for its Cloud databases (AlloyDB, Spanner, Cloud SQL, Bigtable, and Firestore) to enable AI agents to interact with customer databases. The company also…
Google Cloud has developed a method to significantly accelerate and reduce the cost of LLM-powered SQL functions in databases by using lightweight "proxy models." These proxy models, which are trained…
Updates to Google Cloud's Database Center, a unified management tool for its database fleet, now enhanced with Gemini-powered AI for observability and optimization. Key features include AI-driven reco…