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Day-0 support with 5x perf for Reflection Beam on Google Cloud | Google Cloud Blog
Today, Reflection released Beam, its first open-weight model built to give developers, researchers, and enterprises open control and customization for frontier software engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks. Released under a permissive Apache 2.0 license with BF16, FP8, and NVFP4 checkpoints available at launch, Beam sets a new standard for inference efficiency in the 500B-parameter class by solving complex reasoning and coding problems with 3x to 4x higher reasoning compute efficiency than comparable open models.
Four eval engineering lessons | Google Cloud Blog
The real challenge of building an agentic system isn't the construction, it's the measurement. Evaluation engineering is a critical foundation for building reliable AI systems. Setting up systematic, repeatable tests to measure your agent’s true behavior can be the difference between shipping a tool you can trust and one that silently breaks, fails to call APIs, or makes mistakes.
Wiz Sensor for GKE: Turnkey threat detection for Kubernetes | Google Cloud Blog
Everything is moving faster in the age of AI, and that includes security threats. What used to take attackers weeks to exploit can now happen in just a few minutes.
Fundamentals to engineer trustworthy gen media | Google Cloud Blog
Google Cloud Consulting works with organizations every day to build generative media that’s trustworthy, brand-aligned, and stands out. Instead of relying on clever or complicated prompting, we’ve identified four recurring basics to generate consistent results, what we call the “SAVE” method.
Architecting scalable, agentic biotech workloads | Google Cloud Blog
In production systems today, most AI agents operate as lightweight dispatchers. They parse a prompt, make an API call, retrieve a record, and hand back control. Their execution is fast, stateless and cheap. Biotechnology does not work this way.
How Visko streams real-time world models on Google Cloud TPUs
Editor's note: Generative AI startups are moving rapidly beyond static clip generation to build interactive, real-time worlds. In this technical deep dive, we explore how AI startup Visko collaborated with Google Cloud TPU engineers to deploy Orbis — its continuously streaming Live World Model—on Cloud TPUs, going from initial kickoff to production handover in just 30 days.
Temporal Serverless Workers on Cloud Run: Scale workers ahead of demand
The open-source Temporal execution platform is rapidly becoming a foundational layer of modern software infrastructure — especially for orchestration in distributed systems and AI agent workloads. However, deploying and scaling workers in Temporal comes with unique challenges. Workers poll for tasks instead of serving requests, so request-driven serverless platforms can be an awkward fit. This often results in running worker fleets on Kubernetes or VMs, which you have to manage and pay for continuously.
Borderless lakehouse integrates with Gemini | Google Cloud Blog
As enterprises shift their AI usage from experimental chatbots to autonomous agents, teams are hitting a critical bottleneck: accessing and reasoning over data scattered across multiple clouds, SaaS platforms, and on-premises systems. To turn AI agents into true systems of action, organizations need a foundation that can handle petabyte-scale reasoning without the security risks of data movement. Last week at our Gemini at Work event, we announced how Gemini can help you transform business workflows.
What the Gemini agent means for startups
Small teams, short runway, and constant pressure to ship faster — it’s the reality we see every day among the founders we work with at Google for Startups. When you are building a company from the ground up, every hour spent on operational overhead or infrastructure plumbing is an hour taken away from your core product.
Modernizing perimeter security: Scalable perimeters with VPC Service Controls
Agents represent a fundamental shift in cloud operations. They can act on behalf of users or autonomously, make non-deterministic decisions, and request data across projects at unprecedented speed and scale. Because agents are a distinct category of non-human identity (NHI), they require unique secure-by-default guardrails.
ARMORY CASTLE Exploits BeyondTrust
ARMORY CASTLE exploited zero day vulnerabilities in BeyondTrust Remote Support appliances to establish persistent, stealthy access to compromised devices
Investigating Ephemeral Supply Chain Tampering
Written by: Tyler McLellan Introduction Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) and Mandiant investigated a software supply chain compromise campaign targeting the update infrastructure belonging to AOMEI Technology between April 2026 and July 2026. The threat actor conducted repeated, short-burst configuration tampering against AOMEI origin servers. Each tampering window remained active for only five to ten minutes before reverting to authentic versions.
Using BigQuery’s generative AI cost management features | Google Cloud Blog
The generative AI functions in BigQuery (AI.GENERATE, AI.IF, AI.CLASSIFY, AI.SCORE, and more) bring large language models (LLMs) directly into your SQL, so a single query can classify millions of support tickets or score each product review for sentiment. However, because these functions are billed by the token, scaling them across massive datasets highlights the importance of managing your budget proactively.
Cloud CISO Perspectives: New Gemini Notebook can help CISOs and policymakers prepare for PQC
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for October 2026. Today, Stephanie Kiel explains the latest on our approach to post-quantum cryptography, and shares a new tool to help CISOs and executives prepare their organizations for PQC.
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