Daily Reading List – April 22, 2026 (#769)

Amazing first day of Google Cloud Next. Keynotes were fun and had a ton of productive customer chats.

[blog] Welcome to Google Cloud Next ‘26. Great roundup of what we’re announcing today, and why it matters.

[blog] The new Gemini Enterprise: one platform for agent development, orchestration, and governance. You deserve nice things! We’ve juiced-up our platform for building agents and doing work.

[blog] Gemini Enterprise for the agentic task force: introducing long-running agents, agentic collaboration spaces, advanced governance, and more. This post goes deeper into the Gemini Enterprise app and how we all can do more productive and interesting work.

[blog] Announcing Spanner Omni: Your infrastructure, Google’s innovation. The best data service in the cloud available … anywhere? Yup, you can now bring Spanner with you to run on any infrastructure.

[blog] What’s new with Databases: Powering the agentic future. Plenty of new and exciting things from our Data team.

[blog] What’s new in Cloud Run at Next ‘26. We haven’t let up on our serverless investment, and it’s a one-horse race right now. Cloud Run continues to introduce valuable and innovative capabilities.

[blog] What’s new in GKE at Next ‘26. Kubernetes is already a fundamental component for many companies, and with this AI surge, it’s finding new ways to be useful.

[blog] What’s next in Google AI infrastructure: Scaling for the agentic era. Compute, networking, and storage are still the bread-and-butter of a hyperscaler, and ours should be second-to-none.

[blog] Inside the eighth-generation TPU: An architecture deep dive. Big improvements, and two distinct systems.

[blog] Level Up Your Agents: Announcing Google’s Official Skills Repository. Fantastic work from my team here. We built a foundational set of agent skills you can use with your favorite agentic harness.

[article] 15 principles for managing up. Really good. “Managing up” has a bad rap, but it’s important to effectively and clearly communicate with the boss.

[article] Eclipse Foundation offers enterprise-grade open source alternative to Microsoft’s VS Code Marketplace. Already popular, this registry has over 10k extensions. I’m glad Google is a supporter.

[blog] Introducing the Builders Hub from the Google Developer Program. Tremendous work from my team to build this new experience. It pulls together more of Google’s dev products into a single place.

[article] SpaceX is working with Cursor and has an option to buy the startup for $60B. Wouldn’t have predicted that, but it also makes sense given the ambitions of those involved.

[blog] A Guide to 5 Agent Payment Protocols. It’s wild there are five of these already. But they don’t completely overlap. This post tries to separate the use cases for each.

[article] Employers say they struggle to find workers with the right AI skillset. This is specific to graduate hires. Universities need to quickly reset to ensure their churning out people who have the skills the market is willing to pay for.

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