Google Cloud Next 2026 keynote recap and announcements

1Thomas Kurian outlined a unified stack of chips, models, agents and security for enterprise AI
2The Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform launched GA with Agent Studio, Runtime and Memory Bank
3New TPU 8t and TPU 8i chips shipped, with TPU 8t offering 3x the power of Ironwood
4NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 platforms were confirmed coming to Google Cloud
5Agentic Data Cloud launched with a Knowledge Catalog and cross-cloud lakehouse support
6Google completed its acquisition of security company Wiz
7New Threat Hunting and Detection Engineering security agents entered preview
8Google Cloud Next '26 drew more than 32,000 attendees to Las Vegas

Gemini Enterprise Agent PlatformAgent Studio, ADK, Agent Runtime, Memory Bank, Identity, Registry, GatewayGA
Gemini Enterprise AppWorker interface with Gemini Projects, Deep Think, Microsoft 365 interopGA
TPU 8tTraining-optimized; 3x Ironwood power, 2x performance per wattGA
TPU 8iInference-optimized; 80% better performance per dollarGA
Google Cloud Axion N4AArm-based processorGA
NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72Google Cloud among first platforms to offer itComing
Agentic Data CloudKnowledge Catalog, Data Agent Kit, Lightning Engine for SparkGA
Threat Hunting AgentNew Security Operations agentPreview

Cloud Next 2026Keynote recap and announcements