Daily Reading List – April 9, 2025 (#529)

Today is the start of Google Cloud Next ’25. Most of today’s reading list relates to it, as that’s most of what I read today! Even if you’re not (yet) a customer, it’s worth a spin through the content.

[blog] Welcome to Next ‘25. Our CEO does a roundup of the major headlines and themes for our event this week. The customer stories of who is successful with AI *right now* are awesome.

[blog] Delivering an application-centric, AI-powered cloud for developers and operators. Some game-changing stuff here for AI-driven software development, platform engineering, and modern ops.

[blog] Vertex AI offers new ways to build and manage multi-agent systems. We launched a new agent development kit (SDK) and unveiled a new protocol for agent-to-agent communication.

[blog] Announcing Firestore with MongoDB compatibility, an enterprise-ready document database. Built from the ground up, this capability gives you the best of our serverless database, with the MongoDB interface that developers love. More on database updates.

[blog] Introducing Ironwood TPUs and new innovations in AI Hypercomputer. Impressive updates here, including the most computing power available anywhere in the world.

[blog] New AI capabilities in Workspace to help every business drive results. If you’re not already one of the billions using Workspace, it’s time to switch over!

[blog] Introducing Firebase Studio and agentic developer tools to build with Gemini. Here’s a great end-to-end story for those building web and mobile apps for Firebase. It’s the evolution of Product IDX, which folks loved using as an online dev environment.

[blog] Vertex AI is now the only platform with generative media models across video, image, speech, and music. New models, including one for text-to-music. Plus excellent improvements to other media models.

[blog] Cloud WAN: Connect your global enterprise with a network built for the AI era. Want to use Google’s massive network backbone for your WAN? Now you can.

[blog] Bringing Gemini and Google Agentspace to you on-premises. Wow. Our flagship Gemini models in your on-premises and air-gapped environments? Yup.

[blog] Driving secure innovation with AI and Google Unified Security. Even pre-Wiz, we have an excellent security stack. Here’s a look at what’s new.

[blog] The AI magic behind Sphere’s upcoming ‘The Wizard of Oz’ experience. I got to experience this yesterday. This might be the hardest challenge ever asked of AI, and there was one company that could even try it.

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