Cloud Next: Develop and Defend AI Agents with Google Cloud
At Cloud Next 2026, Google Cloud unveiled eighth gen TPUs, a suite of tools to support the end-to-end development of AI agents and agent powered security
TL;DR
- Google Cloud unveiled tools for AI agent development and agent-powered security at Cloud Next 2026.
- Eighth-generation Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) were launched for accelerated AI training and inference.
- The Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform aims to provide a secure, full-stack system for building, scaling, governing, and optimizing AI agents.
- New agentic cybersecurity solutions include a Threat Hunting agent and a Detection Engineering agent to proactively identify and defend against novel threats.
- Google is integrating Wiz's Cloud and AI Security Platform with its Threat Intelligence for agentic defense, including Wiz's AI Application Protection Platform.
- Internally, AI is transforming Google's workflows, with 75% of new code now AI-generated and approved by engineers.