Google Cloud Platform (GCP) stories
Oracle customers will gain more AI model choice in everyday workflows as Google's Gemini is added to Fusion Applications and NetSuite.
Businesses can now run and monitor AI agents for up to seven days as Google Cloud adds tighter identity and governance controls.
Businesses can now query data in place across rival clouds and software platforms, cutting duplication and transfer costs for analytics and AI.
It aims to help businesses build AI agents that use live data, keep to strict permissions and avoid hallucinating over filings and news.
Looker users can now turn chat prompts into recurring monitors that flag threshold breaches and run automated root-cause analysis.
Developers at Best Buy can now log into Google Cloud with Microsoft Entra ID, cutting key rotation and sharpening audit trails.
Businesses using Google Cloud AI tools can now spot unusual charges sooner and halt billable usage once spending hits a set cap.
Enterprises can now deploy quantum-safe signing in production as Cloud KMS adds post-quantum algorithms for sensitive records and transactions.
Businesses can now query governed data across cloud systems in plain language, as Google Cloud opens its conversational analytics tools more widely.
Governance controls aim to curb AI misfires as Dynatrace moves from observability to automated incident triage and remediation.
Security teams could cut manual policy work as the update adds automation, compliance reporting and wider support across hybrid cloud tools.
Most enterprises will need costly infrastructure changes before agentic AI can move from pilots to production, Google Cloud research says.
Large language model post-training could get cheaper as idle accelerator time is cut from about 60% to 30% in early tests.
The switch has cut Voicify's model costs by up to 30% while helping the platform keep restaurant and healthcare calls flowing at peak times.
Partners will be able to sell higher-margin advisory and managed services as organisations brace for AI-driven identity sprawl and PQC risk.
By shifting orchestration to Google Cloud's managed service, the payments firm cut monthly data platform costs by about 30% and improved reliability.
Cloud operators can now use IAM conditions to curb privilege escalation and narrow access to MCP tools, BigQuery and logs.
The move could speed forecasting and model updates as the US agency shifts a mission-critical system from on-site supercomputers to the public cloud.
Pidilite now runs its non-ERP applications on Google Cloud, after a migration that cut service response times and freed it from its data centre.
Fraud teams could cut investigation time by 90% as the new stack combines real-time scoring, case assembly and human review in milliseconds.