Stay updated with the latest in cloud innovation! This week on the Google Cloud Update, we’re breaking down the massive 200x performance boost for Spanner, a critical security bulletin for GKE users, and the rollout of .NET 10 support across serverless platforms.

From new FIPS compliance in networking to a deep dive into Looker 26.0 and the latest AI advancements in Document AI, we’ve got everything you need to keep your infrastructure fast, secure, and cutting-edge.

Inside this episode:

• Global Reach: Every service launching in the new Asia-Southeast3 region.

• AI Innovations: Hands-on with the new Gemini CLI in Vertex AI Workbench.

• Action Required: How to update your Dataform permissions to avoid workflow failures.

• Infrastructure Fixes: A known issue with GKE and Cloud Storage FUSE (and how to fix it).

• Security & Networking: New fingerprinting in Artifact Registry and regional load balancing updates.

Whether you're a developer, data engineer, or cloud architect, we’ve got the technical deep dives you need to keep your stack running smoothly.

Firestore Pipelines, Python for Cloud Run, and 4K AI Video This week, we dive into the new Native Mode pipeline interface for Firestore Enterprise and pyproject.toml support for Cloud Run. We also cover high-res upsampling for Vertex AI video models and essential updates for Kubernetes 1.35.

Kick off 2026 with critical security updates: We break down the new CVEs affecting GKE clusters and why you need to upgrade your node pools immediately. Plus, we explore Vertex AI's new experimental GLM 4.7 model, the deprecation timeline for Claude 3.5 Haiku, and the long-awaited arrival of direct VPC egress for Cloud Functions.

Unwrap a massive week of Google Cloud updates just before the holidays! We’re breaking down the public preview of Gemini 3 Flash and the major General Availability release of the Vertex AI Agent Engine. Plus, we dive into new BigQuery connectors for Iceberg tables, Cloud SQL enhanced backups, and the general availability of single-tenant Cloud HSMs. Don't miss this feature-packed episode.

It’s a massive week for Artificial Intelligence on Google Cloud! We dive into the arrival of DeepSeek V3.2 and Mistral models in Vertex AI, along with new video extension capabilities for creators. We also break down major networking news, including the new Partner Cross-Cloud Interconnect for AWS, and explore how BigQuery now enables LLM agents to get hands-on with your data. Plus, stay tuned for essential updates across Kubernetes Engine, AlloyDB, and cloud security.

Are you ready for Spark 4.0? We break down the latest Dataproc updates and explore BigQuery’s new ability to automatically generate embeddings and perform semantic searches. Plus, we cover the general availability of GKE Inference Gateway, AlloyDB query plan management, and essential security patches for your container-optimized OS nodes.

Need to speed up your pipelines? This episode covers the new BigQuery Data Transfer Service for Salesforce and GKE Autopilot's fast-starting nodes. We also dive into the new TPU 7x hardware for training large-scale models, Claude Opus 4.5 integration, and the new Vertex AI Search query filters. Stay tuned for a crucial heads-up on Cloud Composer environment creation and Ubuntu ARM node page sizes.