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Agent Plugins is a new open, vendor-neutral standard for packaging Agent Skills and their MCP dependencies into one portable folder, with Google joining as a core maintainer. The article details how the standard simplifies distribution, its manifest requirements, and its compatibility across clients.
Google Cloud's Agent Plugin lets developers package skills, MCP servers, and tools into a single portable folder, enabling build-once-use-everywhere workflows for AI agents.
Google Cloud AI Research's ScientistOne paper addresses trust issues in AI-generated research by introducing Chain-of-Evidence, which verifies citations, numerical claims, and method descriptions against source artifacts before finalizing manuscripts.
Google reshuffles its AI leadership as Demis Hassabis steps back and Jeff Dean departs to launch a new lab, with analysis suggesting the company is prioritizing its cloud business over frontier AI ambitions, akin to Westinghouse winning the electricity diffusion race against Edison.
AI lab Mirendil has signed a $100M+ multi-year partnership with Google Cloud to secure compute capacity for its self-improving AI research, tapping TPUs and Nvidia GPUs to scale recursive self-improvement efforts.
Google Cloud API Gateway now offers model routing in Public Preview, providing a serverless ingress layer that accepts OpenAI-compatible requests and dynamically routes them to Gemini, Claude, or OpenAI models.
Google Cloud API Gateway announces public preview of model routing, letting developers access Gemini, Claude, and OSS models via a single endpoint using OpenAPI specs.
Google open-sources its Agent Skills repository for building, testing, and scaling agent skills on Google Cloud, covering GKE, BigQuery, and Gemini APIs.
Google released a free 2h17m course covering the progression from agents to tools, loops, graphs, and autonomous systems, taught by a Developer Relations Engineer at Google Cloud.
Google announces GA of Agent and Model Evaluations in Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, enabling consistent measurement and monitoring of AI agents in dev and production with pre-built metrics, adaptive rubrics, simulators, and online monitors.
Google Cloud and RadixArk are partnering to bring the SGLang open-source inference framework to Google Cloud TPUs, initially via SGL-JAX and later with SGL-torchtpu for PyTorch-native support, enabling developers to run production workloads seamlessly across GPUs and TPUs.
Google Cloud provides a codelab for using the remote MCP server with AlloyDB to quickly build an AI agent that can query your database.
Google Cloud announces the Agentic Cinema hackathon, inviting developers to build agentic AI filmmaking experiences using Gemini. Submissions open July 27 - September 7, 2026.
Google Cloud Tech demonstrates Model Armor, a centralized safety layer that protects multi-agent AI systems from indirect prompt injections, malicious URLs, and sensitive data leaks, with a hands-on lab.
This book provides a practical guide to using BigQuery for data exploration and preparation, covering cleaning, transforming, and analyzing data for business insights.
Google Cloud Tech is hosting a livestream on scaling and governing AI agents using the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, addressing deployment, governance, and security challenges.
The distillation service of Gemini allows training a smaller, more efficient student model using the outputs and thinking patterns of a larger teacher model, while reducing cost and latency.
Google Startups released a new technical guide for building generative media applications using Google DeepMind's models, covering models, tools, architectures, quality assurance, and economic considerations.
Google Cloud named primary HPC provider for NOAA's Weather and Climate Operational Supercomputing System, enabling operational numerical weather prediction in the public cloud for faster simulations and life-saving warnings.
Michaels launched Ask Mike, an AI-powered shopping assistant built with Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise, to provide personalized product discovery and creative guidance on Michaels.com.