GCP News - 2026-08-25
2026-08-25
最終更新: 2026-08-27 21:31:34 JST
Google Cloud Release Notes
August 25, 2026
- Link: https://docs.cloud.google.com/release-notes#August_25_2026
- Published: 2026-08-25 16:00:00
- Fetched: 2026-08-27 21:31:25
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BigQuery
Feature
BigQuery data governance tags are supported in Terraform. This feature is in Preview.
Cloud Run
Feature
Cloud Run instances are available in Preview. Instances are specifically designed for running long-lived and individually addressable workloads.
Cloud SDK
Breaking
582.0.0 (2026-08-25)
Breaking Changes
- (Google Cloud CLI) Removed the legacy Cloud SQL Proxy V1 component ('cloud_sql_proxy') from the Google Cloud CLI. All connect commands now rely exclusively on Cloud SQL Auth Proxy V2 ('cloud-sql-proxy').
- (API Registry) Removed
gcloud api-registry mcp servers listandgcloud api-registry mcp tools list. For similar functionality, see Agent Registry at<https://docs.cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/alpha/agent-registry/mcp-servers>. - (Cloud Services) Removed
gcloud beta services mcp policies get,gcloud beta services mcp policies get-effective, andgcloud beta services mcp policies test-enabledas MCP policies are not required and they have been functioning as no-ops.
Anthos
- Updated anthos-cli with newer go version and library dependencies.
App Engine
- Updated the Java SDK to version 5.1.0 build from the open source project https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/appengine-java-standard/releases/tag/v5.1.0.
- Upgraded Jetty 12.0 to 12.0.38 and Jetty 12.1 to 12.1.12.
- Added gRPC support to the App Engine Images service for image transformations and composition.
App Lifecycle Manager
- Added
--flagsflag togcloud beta app-lifecycle-manager flags releases createto allow creating flag releases from a list of flag IDs.
Cloud Composer
- Enabled Airflow CLI commands for Composer environments running new Airflow 3.3.x versions.
Cloud Firestore
- Added support for search shorthands to
gcloud beta firestore indexes composite create.
Cloud Key Management Service
- Added
--protection-leveland--crypto-key-backendflags togcloud kms keys versions updatecommand.
Cloud Managed Kafka
- Released 'broker-disk' flags to GA.
Cloud Run
- Promote
gcloud run instancescommands to the beta track. - Added
--delay-executionflag togcloud beta run jobscommand groups to allow run job execution within a delay window. - Added
--run-uploadflag togcloud beta run deployto specify that the source should be uploaded via the Cloud Run UploadSource API.
Cloud SQL
- Updated 'cloud-sql-proxy' packaged component to use 2.25.2 of the Cloud SQL Proxy.
Cloud Spanner Emulator
- Added
--remote_functions_host_portflag to Spanner emulator start command. This flag allows Spanner emulator to connect to a Functions Framework instance that hosts implementation of Remote User Defined Functions.
Cloud Workstations
- Changed the default value of
--pool-sizeflag forgcloud workstations configs createandgcloud beta workstations configs createto 1. To explicitly create a configuration without a fast start pool, run with--pool-size=0.
Compute Engine
- Added
gcloud compute composite-health-checks test-iam-permissionscommand to test IAM permissions on a Compute Engine composite health check inalpha,beta, andGA. - Added
--security-settings-client-tls-policy,--security-settings-subject-alt-names, and--security-settings-aws-v4-*flags togcloud compute backend-services createandupdatecommands. - Added allowed value
asnto flags--enforce-on-keyand--enforce-on-key-configstogcloud compute security-policies rules createandupdatecommands in alpha, beta, and GA. - Added
gcloud beta compute service-attachments test-iam-permissionscommand to test IAM permissions on a service attachment. - Added
--consistent-hash-http-header-nameflag togcloud compute backend-services createandupdatecommands. - Added
BMSAIsupport to--confidential-compute-typeoption ingcloud compute instances createandbulk createcommands. - Promoted identity support for Backend Services to GA.
Design Center
- Added
gcloud design-center spaces application-templates exportcommand to export IaC for an application template. - Added
gcloud design-center spaces application-templates revisions exportcommand to export IaC for an application template revision.
Developer Connect
- Promoted
gcloud developer-connect account-connectorscommands to GA.
Orchestration Pipelines
- Added
gcloud beta orchestration-pipelinescommand group to manage Orchestration Pipelines.
Vmware Engine
- Added
gcloud vmware private-clouds migrate-management-vmswhich migrates the management VMs of a private cloud from the current management cluster to a workload cluster.
Subscribe to these release notes at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/google-cloud-sdk-announce.
Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL
Feature
Use assessments (Preview) in Database Center to assess and test the performance impact of database recommendations before you apply them to your production database fleet.
The assessments workflow performs these operations:
- Clones your database instance.
- Runs benchmarking simulation tests on the clone.
- Compares the baseline performance of the clone against the performance after you apply the recommended configuration changes.
For more information, see Assessments in Database Center.
Database Center
Feature
Use assessments (Preview) in Database Center to assess and test the performance impact of database recommendations before you apply them to your production database fleet.
The assessments workflow performs these operations:
- Clones your database instance.
- Runs benchmarking simulation tests on the clone.
- Compares the baseline performance of the clone against the performance after you apply the recommended configuration changes.
Database Center assessments are available only for Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL instances.
For more information, see Create an assessment of a recommendation.
Google Cloud Contact Center as a Service
Announcement
Google Cloud CCaaS prerelease notes 6.7
Here are the pre-release notes for what we expect to be the next version of Google Cloud CCaaS. When we release this version, we expect the new capabilities to be as shown here.
Feature
Agent desktop supports email
The agent desktop now supports email. Agents can handle email interactions using the email adapter in a desktop layout.
Administrators: In the Desktop Layout Builder view, there's a new Email Adapter widget that you can drag and drop into a desktop layout.
Feature
Bulk email status updates
You can use the new apps/api/v1/email/update_status endpoint to change the
status of multiple email sessions to the status that you specify.
The new endpoint includes the following capabilities:
You can optionally specify the status that you expect email sessions to be in. Email sessions that aren't in that status aren't updated.
For each session, the response reports whether it was updated, required no change, or couldn't be updated (and why). This means that integrations can handle partial success and identify which sessions still need attention.
Fixed
This release addresses the following issues:
Fixed an issue where blended SMS transcripts were incorrectly identified as call audio recordings when uploaded to Customer Experience Insights, causing them to appear as missing or unanalyzable data.
Fixed an issue where the chat text-input field was unresponsive after an agent accepted a new chat.
Fixed an issue where call-cascade agent availability safeguards weren't enforced for terminal queue paths, which resulted in agents being assigned calls from secondary queues even when their primary queue fell below the minimum availability threshold.
Fixed an issue where chats that were connected to an agent continued to appear on the Queued Chats dashboard with a status of Ongoing.
Fixed an issue where direct inbound and dial-by-extension calls didn't reach an agent when multiple calls were waiting in the agent's queue.
Fixed an issue where chat messages from supervisors were incorrectly attributed to the end-user in Customer Experience Insights transcripts.
Fixed an issue where changes to hours of operation didn't appear in the Audit Dashboard.
Fixed an issue with Salesforce integrations where outbound calls were incorrectly labeled as Inbound and didn't pass the CCAI Platform call ID into Salesforce case activity comments.
Fixed an issue where requests for agent activity logs resulted in high database latency and gateway timeouts.
Fixed an agent desktop issue where an agent sent a chat form to an end-user but the end-user didn't receive it.
Fixed an issue where a chat that was escalated from a virtual agent to a human agent was stuck in the queue and couldn't be successfully offered to available agents.
Fixed an issue where the Queue dashboard displayed
{{Count}}and{{Level}}variables instead of numerals.Fixed an issue where the wait times API incorrectly reported zero available agents for chat queues that had agent availability.
Fixed an issue where the Queues > Calls dashboard didn't load and timed out for instances with a large number of queues.
Fixed an agent desktop issue where the sentiment score didn't appear in the call adapter in the agent desktop or in Salesforce for calls that were escalated from a virtual agent to a human agent.
Fixed an issue where newly created voice queues didn't correctly inherit the global whisper and countdown settings.
Fixed an issue where queue duration metrics incorrectly included IVR timeout time for calls that were cold transferred into a closed queue.
Fixed an issue where an agent who reopened a previously read voicemail was stuck in In-call status, preventing them from accepting new contacts or changing their status.
Fixed an issue where an agent's assigned call ID was cleared during wrap-up, which prevented them from submitting their wrap-up disposition after refreshing the page.
Google Distributed Cloud (software only) for VMware
Announcement
Google Distributed Cloud (software only) for VMware 1.36.0-gke.532 is now available for download. To upgrade, see Upgrade a cluster. Google Distributed Cloud 1.36.0-gke.532 runs on Kubernetes v1.36.0-gke.2800.
If you use a third-party storage vendor, check the listing of our previously-qualified storage partners.
After a release, it takes approximately 7 to 14 days for the version to become available for use with GKE On-Prem API clients: the Google Cloud console, the gcloud CLI, and Terraform.
Feature
Google Distributed Cloud (software only) for VMware includes the following feature enhancements:
- Updated the Kubernetes version to 1.36.
- Upgraded containerd from 2.1 to 2.2
- Updates vSphere support to vSphere version 9.0 and 9.1 and removes support for vSphere version 7.0.
- Updated
gkectlto perform an empty reconciliation health check prior to running thegkectl updateorgkectl upgradecommands. The health check prevents starting cluster lifecycle updates when a cluster is in an unhealthy state. - Improved the
statusandconditionsfields inOnPremcustom resources to provide clearer visibility into cluster reconciliation phases and state transitions during cluster management operations. - Updated
gkectlto provide more specific error messages and actionable troubleshooting recommendations when operations encounter failures. - Expanded pre-upgrade validation checks to proactively identify potential configuration or cluster health blockers prior to upgrade initiation.
- This release supports resilient, idempotent migrations to advanced clusters, enabling interrupted upgrades to safely resume without risking cluster degradation or state loss. This update also introduces preflight health checks, improves gkectl error diagnostics, and resolves key behavioral discrepancies in workload scheduling, proxy parsing, and logging.
Fixed
The following issues were fixed in 1.36.0-gke.532:
- Fixed vulnerabilities listed in Vulnerability fixes.
- Fixed an issue where user clusters remained stuck in a
Reconcilingstate after an admin cluster upgrade. The admin cluster controller skipped reconciling legacy cluster lifecycle components during upgrades unless an initial migration annotation was set. If legacy user clusters still existed on the admin cluster, missing legacy API discovery (cluster.k8s.io/v1alpha1) caused controller reconciliation to stall. With this fix, the controller preserves legacy components as long as any legacy user clusters exist, and prunes them only after all user clusters have migrated to advanced clusters. - Fixed an issue where
gkectl preparefailed with a permission denied error when attempting to read a private registry CA certificate. The certificate file permissions are now set to644so non-root processes can read it. - Fixed an issue where retrying a failed upgrade to an Advanced Cluster (such as re-running with an existing bootstrap cluster) could wipe or strip the encryption keys in the generated-key-kms-plugin-config secret, preventing the control plane from decrypting existing Kubernetes secrets in etcd.
- Fixed an issue where upgrading a user cluster with Anthos Network Gateway
(ANG) enabled to an Advanced Cluster would stall or fail. Previously, the
upgrade process attempted to modify immutable
spec.selectorfields on existing ANG resources. The upgrade operator now preserves existing label selectors during reconciliation so that V1 to V2 cluster migrations complete successfully. - Updated
cluster-proportional-autoscalerto address security vulnerabilities. - Fixed an issue where recreating a user cluster using a previously used name
caused cluster provisioning to stall indefinitely in the
PROVISIONINGstate because of a missingk8s-health-checkservice account. - Fixed an issue where
gkectl diagnosefailed to run on non-advanced user clusters managed by an advanced admin cluster. - Fixed an issue where creating a cluster on the root of a vSAN datastore failed during data disk creation because the installer used an unsupported API for top-level vSAN directory creation.
- Fixed an issue where control plane quorum restore stalled or failed due to IP
address collisions. After the fix,
gkectl restore quorumrecreates missingIPAddressobjects forVSphereMachineresources before waiting for cluster readiness. - Fixed an issue where enabling generated key secrets encryption (KMSv1) during Day 2 cluster updates failed or got stuck in an infinite reconciliation loop.
- Fixed an issue where setting
stackdriver.disableVsphereResourceMetricstotruecaused cluster installations or upgrades to stall because thevsphere-ca-certificateConfigMap was deleted, but still needed.
Google Distributed Cloud (software only) for bare metal
Announcement
Google Distributed Cloud (software only) for bare metal 1.36.0-gke.532 is now available for download. To upgrade, see Upgrade clusters. Google Distributed Cloud for bare metal 1.36.0-gke.532 runs on Kubernetes v1.36.0-gke.2800.
After a release, it takes approximately 7 to 14 days for the version to become available for installations or upgrades with the GKE On-Prem API clients: the Google Cloud console, the gcloud CLI, and Terraform.
If you use a third-party storage vendor, check the listing of our previously-qualified storage partners.
Feature
Google Distributed Cloud (software only) for bare metal includes the following feature enhancements:
- Upgraded the Ansible version to 2.18. This version requires Python 3.8+ on target nodes. Because RHEL 8 defaults to Python 3.6, you must have Python 3.9 installed on nodes using RHEL 8.10. RHEL 8.8 is no longer supported.
- Updated the Kubernetes version to 1.36.
- Upgraded containerd from 2.1 to 2.2
- Containerd is required for new cluster installations and cluster migrations to Node Agent mode.
- Added support for the layer 4 gateway controller.
bmctl backup clusterin Node Agent mode requires at least 12 GB of free space in/tmpon the admin workstation and all target nodes to buffer backup archives. You can configure a custom temporary directory by settingTMPDIR.- If you use Node Agent and receive an error that creating the backup fails to
create an archive file, you might need 12 GBs of free space in the
/tmpdirectory on the admin node and all target nodes. For more information, see Can't create a backup for a Node Agent node . - Removed the deprecated
anthos-metadata-agentcomponent thatkubestore-collectorreplaced. - Removed the deprecated
csi-snapshot-validation-webhookcomponent. Upstream Kubernetes validation is now handled natively via Common Expression Language (CEL) rules within the deployed Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs). For more information, see Volume snapshots. - Vertical pod autoscaling is generally available. For more information, see Configure vertical Pod autoscaling
- Unified registry mirror and private registry update behavior across all cluster types while preserving configurations.
Fixed
The following issues were fixed in 1.36.0-gke.532:
- Fixed vulnerabilities listed in Vulnerability fixes.
- Fixed an issue where CA certificate secrets with identical names across different namespaces stalled cluster upgrades. In this release, the system automatically prepends the target namespace prefix to all the CA certificate secret names when forwarding them to the destination namespace. The prefix makes sure each CA certificate secret name is unique so the upgrade doesn't stall.
- Fixed an issue where Certificate Authority (CA) rotation failed for self-managing clusters (admin, hybrid, and standalone). The failure occurs during the final phase of the rotation when attempting to move management resources back from the temporary bootstrap cluster to the self-managing cluster, which can leave the cluster in an unmanageable state. You must upgrade your clusters to version 1.33.1000-gke.59 before you rotate your CAs.
- Fixed an issue where the status for
Ingressresources didn't update when using bundled ingress. - Fixed an issue where rolling back a node pool failed because stale Cluster API
(CAPI) bootstrap secrets retained deprecated
kubeletflags. - Updated
cluster-proportional-autoscalerto address security vulnerabilities. - Fixed an issue where
etcd-eventsinstallation entered an infinite retry loop during machine initialization due to incomplete cleanup of the data directory after a learner promotion failure. - Fixed an issue where the
NodePoolcontroller prematurely updatedStatus.ManagedFieldson partial reconciliation failures, causing removed taints and labels to remain stranded on affected nodes. - Fixed an issue where recreating a user cluster using a previously used name
caused cluster provisioning to stall indefinitely in the
PROVISIONINGstate because of a missingk8s-health-checkService account. - Fixed an issue where restarting
kube-apiserverduring etcd encryption updates abruptly terminates the container, causing stale service endpoints and transient connection failures for in-cluster workloads. - Fixed an issue where the installer stalled for three minutes per control
plane node during certificate rotation or etcd encryption updates because of
an incorrect
kube-apiservercontainer termination check.
Google Kubernetes Engine
Fixed
Fixed the issue in which GPUDirect-TCPX for a3-highgpu-8g machine types was
incompatible with the Linux kernel version that was used by Container-Optimized
OS in GKE version 1.34 and later. To prevent errors, GKE blocked creating or
upgrading node pools that used the a3-highgpu-8g machine type to version 1.34
or later. For more information about this issue, see GKE known
issues.
You can now create or upgrade node pools that use the a3-highgpu-8g machine
type to any of the following GKE versions. Automatic upgrades of these node
pools from version 1.33 to version 1.34 or later are no longer blocked.
- For minor version 1.34, use patch version 1.34.5-gke.1153000 or later.
- For minor version 1.35, use patch version 1.35.2-gke.1485000 or later.
- For minor version 1.36 and later, use any available patch version.
In GKE version 1.34 and later, you must use version 3.1.9 or later of the
GPUDirect-TCPX installer and version 2.0.12 or later of the GPUDirect-TCPX
sidecar. If you previously installed these components, verify that the container
images use these versions or later. To avoid degraded performance or workload
failures, update your installer and sidecar image versions before the
a3-highgpu-8g node pools are manually or automatically upgraded to version
1.34 or later. These container image versions correspond to the upstream
definitions maintained in the gpudirect-tcpx GitHub
repository.
Managed Service for Apache Airflow
Feature
Managed Airflow Agent is now available in Google Cloud Console. The agent can help you understand, diagnose, and resolve issues with failed Airflow tasks and DAG runs, optimize your environment's performance, identify existing or potential issues, bottlenecks, and areas for optimization.
reCAPTCHA
Change
Fraud Defense Mobile SDK v18.10.0-beta01 is available for iOS. This version includes the following:
- Adds support for macOS desktop and tvOS.
- Improvements to networking consumption.
- Improvements to latency and reliability.
Google Cloud Blog
Empowering autonomous agents with advanced security governance
- Link: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/ai-infrastructure/state-of-ai-infrastructure-report-agent-governance-and-security/
- Published: 2026-08-25 01:00:00
- Fetched: 2026-08-27 21:31:27
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AI agents are the ultimate insiders. We grant them permission to read emails, query databases, and trigger API calls. They don’t just retrieve information, they take action.
Agents offer incredible potential for increased productivity and better customer experiences, but they also come with new security concerns. In our new State of AI infrastructure report, 79% of tech leaders cite security, governance, or operations as their most significant challenge to scaling inference.
While there’s still a crucial role for traditional security tools, the threat model has fundamentally changed. Autonomous workflows have redefined enterprise risk, so it's crucial that we give agents the access they need without compromising security.
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<h3><b>The agentic paradox</b></h3><p>The path to success starts with viewing governance as a driver for innovation. To be useful and secure, an agent needs access — and also guardrails. Yet 35% of senior IT decision makers cite insufficient security for multi-system access as a primary issue preventing agentic deployment.</p><p>Agents expand the surface area that defenders need to protect, and can introduce new threats, including tool poisoning and indirect prompt injection, where an attacker can hijack an agent’s logic through the data it processes. Managing the dynamic permissions that agents need to succeed at their tasks can also be a significant challenge, particularly as legacy security wasn’t designed for today’s automated threats.</p>
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<h3><b>Securing the chain of thought</b></h3><p>Along with securing more identity and access issues, it’s important for defenders to secure both the network layer and the model.</p><p>Security leaders are increasingly shifting their focus from preventing breaches to verifying provenance to guard against misuse, including indirect <a href="https://cloud.google.com/transform/5-gen-ai-security-terms-busy-business-leaders-should-know">prompt injection</a>.</p><p><b>From an infrastructure perspective, what are your top security concerns related to AI?</b></p>
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From blocking to managing
We’ve looked at the new security challenges posed by agentic AI. You can’t solve them by simply locking down the system, as that defeats the purpose of autonomous agents.
Many organizations are turning to integrated, full-stack cloud platforms to give them greater oversight. 69% of surveyed executives now rate a full-stack platform as a critical requirement, and 80% say data compliance is the primary factor dictating that choice.
By adopting frameworks like the Secure AI Framework (SAIF) and moving to a central control plane, purpose-built platforms such as Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, organizations can manage risk in three main areas:
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Secure-by-default design: Embedding security directly into the AI development process to proactively guard against threats including prompt injection.
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Agent governance and oversight: Adopting purpose-built permission and identity management for agents — giving greater control over agent interactions, exposing blind spots and limiting risks tools.
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Human-in-the-loop control: Enforcing clear rules that automatically flag when an agent requires human approval before moving forward with a critical action.
Governance will guide you to success
The true value of a modern security foundation is its ability to encourage innovation. By embedding robust governance directly into a unified foundation, organizations can deploy agents with confidence across their most sensitive, business-critical workloads.
The leaders of the agentic era are re-architecting their stack to use security as a launchpad — empowering them to innovate securely and scale faster than their competition.
Find out more about how enterprise leaders are rethinking security for the agentic era in the State of AI infrastructure report.
New AI-powered quick assessments in Migration Center turbocharge modernization
- Link: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure-modernization/ai-powered-quick-assessments-in-migration-center/
- Published: 2026-08-25 01:00:00
- Fetched: 2026-08-27 21:31:27
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Technology leaders are under mounting pressure to modernize infrastructure, control multi-cloud operational spend, and build data foundations for generative AI. However, the discovery required for that level of transformation can entail weeks of manual spreadsheet analysis, mapping in-house infrastructure, and reconciling siloed, piecemeal cost estimates across disparate teams and sources. To help, we’re announcing AI-powered Quick Assessments in Migration Center, which delivers near-instant total cost of ownership (TCO) modeling and automated service mapping.
Compare this to legacy assessment processes, which can stall digital transformation initiatives before they even launch. Manual discovery can delay migration timelines by months, increase engineering overhead, and often miscalculates complex financial models. By replacing manual discovery with AI-assisted automation, IT gains instant, actionable visibility into the TCO and return on investment (ROI) for a given migration initiative.
Now, organizations can generate comprehensive migration financial models in minutes rather than months. Teams ingest raw infrastructure data or cloud billing reports and quickly receive an optimized target bill of materials (BOM), service mapping coverage, and projected savings. Decision makers interact with an agentic assistant that explains underlying financial assumptions, recommends technical cost optimizations, and exports ready-to-share executive reports.
Inside the AI-powered Migration Center
This is made possible with AI-assisted Quick Assessments alongside enhanced Cloud Billing assessment capabilities, both integrated into the new AI-powered Migration Center.
AI-assisted Quick Assessment for on-premises workloads
Designed for enterprise customers and partners, AI-assisted Quick Assessment automates on-premises infrastructure evaluation to provide rapid financial modeling. Let’s walk through these new capabilities:
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Instant Compute Engine TCO estimates convert VMware inventory exports (such as RVTools) or aggregated infrastructure inputs into precise Compute Engine cost targets:
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- Advanced architecture modeling supports latest-generation Gen4 compute instances and high-performance Hyperdisk storage pools:
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- Customizable financial controls allow teams to adjust on-premises baseline cost assumptions to match internal accounting standards:
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- Context-aware agentic chat recommends tailored technical cost optimizations aligned with your specific business constraints (such as regional location or compliance needs), clearly explaining the underlying logic and financial assumptions.
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- Automated Business Case and Google Sheets export generates ready-to-use reports capturing the complete recommended BOM, TCO comparison, and ROI analysis:
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Now introducing Gemini Enterprise for Legal
- Link: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/introducing-gemini-enterprise-for-legal/
- Published: 2026-08-25 21:00:00
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Few professions are as exacting as the practice of law. A team reviewing a contract or building a case works inside strictly privileged information, firm-specific playbooks, and a body of law that changes constantly. The work thrives on nuanced, professional judgment — and the systems supporting it inherit real obligations: ethical walls that cannot be crossed, matter permissions that cannot be flattened, and a duty of confidentiality that does not bend for convenience.
General-purpose AI, however capable, does not meet that standard on its own. Foundational model intelligence is necessary. For legal work, it is nowhere near sufficient.
What makes the difference is the system built around the model: skills that enhance a firm's own expertise, connections into the systems where matters actually live, agents that complete work rather than return suggestions, and an open ecosystem to extend all of it — with governance running underneath all four. Each is valuable alone. Only in combination do they produce something a firm or a legal department can put into production and actually rely on.
Today we're bringing that to legal practice with Gemini Enterprise for Legal, part of our new suite of purpose-built industry solutions.
Bringing Gemini Enterprise to your legal practice
Four components of Gemini Enterprise for Legal
Developed alongside industry leaders, Gemini Enterprise for Legal provides an integrated, fully governed environment configured for rapid deployment across firms and corporate legal departments:
1. Purpose-built skills for legal work. Skills are reusable packages of instructions and context, designed by domain experts, that teach an agent to run a specialized task while enforcing your firm's playbooks, citation rules, and house style. They cover contract review and redlining, playbook creation, regulatory horizon scanning, legal research, DSAR fulfillment, and more — and they are where a firm's institutional knowledge becomes something the platform can execute rather than something a partner has to re-explain.
2. Connections to trusted systems and data. Secure MCP connectors link agents to the document management systems, case repositories, research services, and industry applications legal teams already rely on — inheriting each platform's existing user permissions and access controls rather than working around them.
3. Agents that act within the data. Skills and connections come together in agents that carry work through: pre-built agents from Google and leading legal software providers deploy out of the box. Specialized agents handle legal and policy research, regulatory screening, and contract drafting — bringing deep legal expertise onto a platform with centralized governance.
4. An open partner ecosystem. Every firm and legal department practices differently. Partnerships with global systems integrators and legal-tech specialists — Accenture, Deloitte, Devoteam, Factor Law, KPMG, Tribe.ai, Valtech, Zazmic, Zencore, and 66degrees — let organizations customize, integrate, and scale across complex enterprise architectures without vendor lock-in.
Running underneath: a governed control plane. A single dashboard for legal IT and risk teams that natively enforces security policies (VPC, CMEK), maintains private data isolation, and holds every output to verifiable grounding with traceable citations.
Unlocking high-value workflows with domain-specific skills
Gemini Enterprise for Legal shifts AI from passive querying to agentic execution, automating high-volume, precision-critical workflows such as:
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Proactive regulatory horizon scanning: Keeps legal and compliance teams ahead of global mandates by autonomously tracking legislative updates, court dockets, and supervisory bodies. It cross-references emerging changes against enterprise policies to flag exposure gaps and generate updated policy drafts for immediate practitioner review.
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Automating data discovery and DSAR response: Modernizes privacy workflows by compiling personal data across fragmented enterprise systems in seconds. It eliminates the manual toil of Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs), and allows for adherence to regulatory timelines while minimizing operational risk.
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Accelerating contract review and negotiation: Compresses turnaround times for inbound vendor agreements, NDAs, and complex M&A documentation by benchmarking terms against enterprise playbooks. It surfaces high-risk clauses and potential exposure, enabling attorneys to focus on strategic negotiation and high-value judgment.
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Building and updating contracting playbooks: Transforms legacy agreement archives into dynamic, actionable playbooks instantly. It automatically extracts key terms, fallback positions, and institutional knowledge to maintain portfolio-wide term consistency and lower negotiation variance across the enterprise.
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Redacting documents for motions to seal: Eliminates the manual burden of preparing court filings and redacting legal documents. It intelligently identifies sensitive terms and PII for rapid practitioner confirmation, dramatically accelerating filing timelines while safeguarding confidentiality.
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Drafting NDA documents: Elevates contract creation through structural fidelity validation that enforces firm standards and logical document hierarchies. It allows legal teams to rapidly generate and evolve non-disclosure agreements with complete formatting confidence and minimal review overhead.
Open ecosystem of connectors across the legal technology stack
Legal work is only as good as its sources, and legal data carries permissions that have to travel with it. Gemini Enterprise for Legal connects directly to core legal systems via secure MCP connectors. Crucially, access is bound by existing role-based access controls, document-level permissions, and trusted data controls inherited from document management and ediscovery systems.
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Google Workspace: Connects seamlessly with Google Docs, Gmail, Drive, and Sheets to analyze matter communications, correspondence, and surface internal files while enforcing enterprise access controls.
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Microsoft 365: Integrates directly with Word, Outlook, and SharePoint to triage inquiries, redlines, and securely ground work product across emails and matter folders without breaking workflow context.
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iManage: Gives Gemini Enterprise for Legal permission-bound, auditable access to governed iManage content, including matter history, documents, and institutional knowledge, eliminating the need for bulk exports or custom integrations.
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NetDocuments: Enables Gemini Enterprise to search and analyze an organization's knowledge and expertise while preserving each user's existing permissions and ethical walls. Source documents never leave the governed NetDocuments environment.
Contract lifecycle and execution:
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Docusign: Integrates agreement metadata, active approval workflows, and contract repositories to surface obligations, track renewal dates, and streamline drafting-to-execution lifecycles.
E-discovery and litigation intelligence:
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Everlaw: Connects Gemini Enterprise to litigation and investigations evidence in Everlaw, allowing legal teams to search and analyze their data, uncover case insights, and build timelines directly in Gemini Enterprise, with responses grounded in the underlying documents and access governed by each user’s existing Everlaw permissions.
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RelativityOne: Allows legal teams to stand up workspaces, organize case data, and manage operations within a secure perimeter.
Primary law, research, and public dockets:
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Thomson Reuters HighQ: Connects Gemini Enterprise for Legal with HighQ, helping legal teams securely access and reference relevant HighQ content within their workflows.
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Free Law Project’s CourtListener.com: Provides access to millions of federal and state court opinions, PACER dockets, judicial profiles, and oral arguments.
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Courtroom5: Delivers jurisdiction-aware civil litigation datasets, procedural rules, and deadline calculation logic.
Specialized legal AI and intellectual property:
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Harvey: Bridges Harvey’s legal reasoning intelligence into Gemini Enterprise, supporting complex legal reasoning and research across Vault projects.
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Solve Intelligence: Links Gemini Enterprise to worldwide patent and non-patent literature, SEP technical standards, and prior art databases for patent drafting and claim charting.
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Legora: Agentic operating system for legal work, supporting lawyers in research, review, and drafting across complex matters
Third-party agents and implementation partners
Every firm and legal department practices differently. Through our open platform, organizations can deploy pre-built partner agents or collaborate with systems integrators to scale custom capabilities:
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Deloitte: Contract Summarize Pro Agent that synthesizes complex contracts into clear summaries for rapid insight and informed decision-making. Clause Guard contract redlining agent to accelerate turnaround times, and minimize risk in contract management.
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Eudia Knowledge agent: Accelerates high-stakes legal and contracting work by combining institutional intelligence with a suite of agents that execute deep legal research, high-volume document analysis, and regulatory compliance screening.
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Global systems integrators & tech partners: Strategic partnerships with Accenture, Deloitte, Devoteam, Factor Law, KPMG, Tribe.ai, Valtech, Zazmic, Zencore, and 66degrees ensure legal teams can customize, integrate, and scale these capabilities across complex enterprise architectures without vendor lock-in.
Gemini Enterprise for Legal offers leading firms a way to manage modern legal work with a secure agentic platform
Developed alongside leading global law firms
We are working closely with leading law firms, including Cleary Gottlieb, Freshfields, Weil, and Williams & Connolly, to ensure these capabilities address the realities of sophisticated legal practice.
“Cleary is committed to embedding AI into our workflows in strategic and competitive ways. Using Google’s Gemini Enterprise, which can slot in seamlessly with other daily work tools, we can unlock greater efficiencies for our teams and help them deliver even higher quality work for our clients.” — Jeff Karpf, Managing Partner, Cleary Gottlieb.
“The legal sector is entering a period of accelerated change and transformation. For Freshfields the opportunity lies in how effectively we combine frontier technology like Gemini Enterprise for Legal with our expertise, robust governance and institutional knowledge to create value for our clients. Our strategic, multi-year partnership with Google Cloud is helping us accelerate that work and enhance how we deliver legal services.” — Alan Mason, Global Managing Partner, Freshfields.
“We’re thrilled to partner with Google Cloud in the early adoption of Gemini Enterprise for Legal. We look forward to integrating Google’s technology to streamline workflow and further support our litigators in shaping outcomes critical to our clients’ futures.” — Joe Petrosinelli, Chairman, Williams & Connolly.
"Our collaboration with Google gives us early access to emerging capabilities while allowing us to help shape the platform based on the realities of sophisticated legal practice. The result is technology that helps us continue to deliver the innovative, high-quality service our clients expect from Weil. We are looking forward to working with Google Cloud engineers and the Gemini Enterprise product team as we further innovate and evolve our AI capabilities." — Ramona Nee, Incoming Executive Partner, Weil.
Weil scales judicial insights with Benchmark, built on Gemini Enterprise
Built on an enterprise-grade foundation
Confidentiality is not a feature of legal technology; it is the precondition for using any at all. Because Gemini Enterprise for Legal runs on Google Cloud infrastructure and the Gemini Enterprise platform, the permissions and access controls your firm already maintains are the boundaries the platform operates within — not settings it asks you to reconstruct.
Client data, firm-specific playbooks, intellectual property, custom agents, and model outputs stay private to your organization, and are never used to train or fine-tune Google's foundation models. Because we operate the full stack, from infrastructure and models through the application layer, we can tune performance and cost together — so expanding what your teams can take on does not mean expanding spend at the same rate.
This is just the beginning
The launch of Gemini Enterprise for Legal represents another defining step in delivering on the promise of Gemini Enterprise: bringing the best of Google AI to every professional, for every workflow, natively tailored to the way they work.
Gemini Enterprise for Legal is available in preview today, launching alongside our new purpose-built solution for Financial Services. We invite law firms and legal teams to explore how Gemini Enterprise can transform their most critical workflows, with solutions for Healthcare, Life Sciences, and other Professional Services on the horizon.
Now introducing Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services
- Link: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/introducing-gemini-enterprise-for-financial-services/
- Published: 2026-08-25 21:00:00
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Protecting capital in today's markets requires immense speed and precision. A financial analyst preparing a deal memo works across licensed market data, internal models, and confidential client files. General-purpose AI lacks the real-time accuracy, verifiable data lineage, and strict security that financial institutions demand. While model intelligence is necessary, without deep integration into trusted financial systems, it is not sufficient.
Making AI genuinely useful inside an industry requires four things, together: domain expertise encoded into reusable skills, secure connections to the systems and data the work depends on, agents that can act inside real workflows, and an open ecosystem that extends and scales all of it — with governance running underneath all four. Each is valuable alone. Only together do they produce something an institution can actually put into production and see true return on investment.
Today, we are delivering on this vision with Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services, bringing Google’s agentic AI directly into the workflows of capital markets and corporate banking.
Bringing Gemini Enterprise into the workflows of capital markets and corporate banking
Four components, built for financial work
Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services delivers an integrated, secure environment configured for rapid deployment with four core components:
1. Purpose-built financial skills. Skills are reusable packages of instructions and context that teach an agent to run a specialized task the way your institution runs it — applying custom formatting to a report, pulling a specific data cut, following a defined research methodology. They are available inside the Financial Research agent and to any agent your teams build.
2. Secure Model Context Protocol (MCP) connectors. Direct integrations, using MCP, into essential financial platforms and licensed data sources, configured inside your own environment. Access stays bound by the entitlements you already maintain — licensed data stays licensed, and permissioned data stays permissioned.
3. Agents that act. At its core is the Financial Research agent which is a Google-built, Google-managed agent that runs end-to-end research with full explainability. It ships with more than 50 foundational skills and exposes its reasoning through confidence scores, explicit methodologies, data snapshots for auditing, and precise source citations. Analysts can use it directly in the Gemini Enterprise app or wire it into existing agent workflows through Agent-to-Agent (A2A) APIs, and it connects to enterprise data sources over MCP to produce reports and documents in the formats your teams already use. Alongside it, out-of-the-box partner agents cover other workflows and extend the capabilities further.
4. An open partner ecosystem. Scale with global systems integrators and specialized fintech providers including 66degrees, Accenture, Artefact, Capgemini, Cognizant, Deloitte, Genpact, GFT Technologies, Infosys, KPMG, PwC, Quantiphi, Slalom, Tribe AI, and Zencore to customize and integrate the platform into your own architecture, without vendor lock-in.
Running underneath: a governed control plane. A single dashboard for IT and risk teams that natively enforces security policies (VPC, CMEK), maintains private data isolation, and holds every output to verifiable grounding with traceable citations.
Unlocking high-value workflows with domain-specific skills
Whether used by private equity specialists, wealth managers, or compliance teams, the solution adapts to diverse workflows like credit risk assessment, portfolio monitoring, market news synthesis, and investigative financial research:
- Elevate advisor insights: Equips relationship managers and advisors with AI-generated insights, personalized recommendations, and tailored artifacts, enabling higher-quality conversations and fostering loyalty.
- Deepen Know Your Customer (KYC) research and analysis: Modernizes onboarding and Know Your Customer (KYC) workflows across private banking and prime brokerage by using multi-format ingestion (PDFs, Excel, SEC filings) to map complex corporate hierarchies, evaluate risk personas, and resolve ultimate beneficial owners (UBOs).
- Enhance portfolio resilience: Helps trading desks deal with sudden macroeconomic shocks. It reduces complex bond portfolio risk exposure analysis to a sub-5-minute execution, complete with automated duration-hedging strategy suggestions.
- Uncover credit market opportunities: Transforms credit data into actionable trade ideas by identifying and isolating potential mispricings. This enables teams to expand trading volumes while lowering back-office risk and underwriting latency.
- Accelerate bond issuance: Compresses client pitch presentation timelines from days to minutes so that fixed-income and underwriting teams can proactively target prospects, increase deal capacity, and secure a crucial first-mover advantage to help win more business.
Open ecosystem of connectors across the financial technology stack
Gemini Enterprise connects directly to core financial systems via secure MCP connectors. Access is bound by existing role-based controls, ensuring verifiable grounding and precise source citations:
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Google Workspace: Enables seamless analysis and live artifact generation across Docs, Sheets, and Slides while adhering to enterprise DLP policies.
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Microsoft 365: Integrates directly with Excel, Word, and PowerPoint to populate financial models, research memos, and client pitch decks.
Market data and financial fundamentals:
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Daloopa: Provides the structured, source-linked financial data layer that enables finance professionals and AI tools to produce accurate and auditable results.
- FactSet: Enables secure, authorized access to FactSet's multi-asset class financial and non-financial datasets, powering reliable AI-driven workflows with fully auditable, compliant insights.
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Finnhub: Provides real-time financial APIs, global fundamentals, and earnings call transcripts for in-depth financial research.
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Fiscal.ai: Delivers institutional-grade financial data within minutes of earnings, covering financials, news, ownership, segments & KPIs, filings, and earnings call transcripts.
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Guidepoint: Connects to primary research insights and expert network transcripts to inform and validate investment theses.
- S&P Global: Integrates cited, verifiable S&P Global data for a range of workflows, from financial analysis, to peer benchmarking, industry research, and more.
Risk, ratings, and private markets:
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Moody’s: Brings ratings, default risk models, and real time news fused into one lens for counterparty risk assessment.
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MSCI: Connects to proprietary indexes, data and models spanning public and private assets and also provides risk analytics and factor exposures.
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PitchBook: Provides comprehensive data and research on private equity, venture capital, credit, M&A, and public markets, including, company financials, deal terms, valuations, and fund performance.
Regulatory and corporate records:
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SEC Edgar: Delivers instant, verifiable retrieval of statutory filings, 10-Ks, 10-Qs, and 8-Ks with precise citation mapping.
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Dun & Bradstreet: Accelerates commercial onboarding and KYB verification through direct access to global corporate hierarchy records.
Digital assets and indices:
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CoinDesk Data and Indices: Supplies institutional-grade digital asset pricing, benchmark indices, and crypto market intelligence for multi-asset strategies.
Introducing Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services
Third-party agents and implementation partners
Organizations can deploy out-of-the-box partner agents or collaborate with global systems integrators to scale custom capabilities without vendor lock-in:
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D&B Business Verification agent: Accelerates commercial onboarding and strengthens KYC compliance.
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FlowX agents: Automate loan pack completeness check, document reconciliation and many other mission critical processes for financial institutions.
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Obin Financial agent: Helps asset management, commercial lending, and insurance teams accelerate complex financial analyses.
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S&P Global agents: Data Retrieval Agent for multi-step analysis, report generation, research workflows, and the Horizons Agents that help turn complex energy and sustainability data into fast insights for finance workflows.
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Global systems integrators and tech partners: Strategic partnerships connect firms with specialist FinTech and leading global systems integrators, including 66degrees, Accenture, Artefact, Capgemini, Cognizant, Deloitte, Genpact, GFT Technologies, Infosys, KPMG, PwC, Quantiphi, Slalom, Tribe AI, and Zencore to manage custom configurations and deploy specialized capabilities at a global scale.
Developed alongside leading global financial institutions
We are developing these capabilities in close collaboration with financial institutions, including Deutsche Bank and CME Group, to ensure they reflect the operational realities of the industry.
“As a design partner for the Financial Research agent, Deutsche Bank has helped shape this capability in view of the realities of a highly regulated industry – from data protection and governance to the workflows our teams use every day,” said Marie-Jeanne Deverdun, Chief Technology, Data and Innovation Officer, and Member of the Deutsche Bank Management Board. “Starting in the Corporate Bank, we see significant potential to reduce manual research effort, improve the consistency and auditability of outputs, and give our teams more time for client conversations. This is an important step in applying AI where it can make a practical difference: safely, responsibly and at scale.”
This launch builds on the rapidly growing momentum of Gemini Enterprise, with many leading financial institutions like BNY, Citi Wealth, Lloyds Banking Group, Macquarie Bank, and Signal Iduna using it to equip their workforce with advanced, agentic workflow tools to drive growth and efficiency.
Built on an enterprise-grade foundation
Because Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services runs on Google Cloud infrastructure and the Gemini Enterprise platform, organizations get the security, governance, compliance, and cost-management capabilities they expect from an enterprise platform.
Customer data, business rules, intellectual property, custom agents, and model outputs remain private to their organization. Your data is never used to train or fine-tune Google’s foundation models. Furthermore, our full-stack approach - from infrastructure and models to the application layer - allows us to optimize performance and cost, helping organizations maximize the value of their AI investments.
This is just the beginning
Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services is available in preview today, launching alongside our new purpose-built solution for Legal. We invite enterprise leaders in financial institutions to explore how Gemini Enterprise can transform their most critical workflows, with solutions for Healthcare, Life Sciences, and other Professional Services on the horizon.
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【Google Cloud Next Tokyo 26】 DAY 1 基調講演まとめ:日本企業の現場で動き始めた AI エージェント
- Link: https://cloud.google.com/blog/ja/topics/next-tokyo/google-cloud-next-tokyo-26-day-1-keynote-summary/
- Published: 2026-08-25 10:00:00
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Google Cloud Next Tokyo 26 の Day 1 基調講演では、自ら考えて業務を進める AI エージェントが、日本企業の現場を動かし始めた姿がくっきりと見えてきました。変革の全体像から、Gemini Enterprise の進化、NTTデータや SOMPOホールディングス、Sky、スクウェア・エニックスの実践、そして Google Workspace とセキュリティまで。最前線で今何が起きているのか、注目のトピックを分かりやすくお届けします!
見逃した方はぜひこちらからご覧ください。
「電気で 30 年」を、AI なら何年で?
最初に立った Google Cloud の三上は、今の AI による変化を工場の電化になぞらえました。工場に電気が通っても、生産性が上がるまでには約 30 年。中央の蒸気機関を大きなモーターに替えただけでは変わらず、機械の一台ごとに小さなモーターを載せ、作業の流れごと作り直したときに一気に伸びました。AI エージェントも、業務の一つひとつに組み込んでこそ力を発揮します。しかも今回は、3 年、3 か月で景色が変わります。
世界では Google Cloud のお客様の約 75% が AI を活用し、多くが本番運用へ進んでいます。一方、日本市場の独自調査では、対象の 70% が AI エージェントをまだ使えておらず、利用者の約半数は会社非公認の「シャドー AI」に頼っています。ここに、日本企業の伸びしろがあります。
Google 自身は、検索や YouTube など月間のべ 150 億人以上のサービスに AI を組み込んでいます。その規模を支える力をお客様に届けるのが Google Cloud で、AI ハイパーコンピュータ からモデル、データ基盤、Agent Platform まで、変革に必要なフルスタックを自社で持ちます。AI 専用チップの TPU は第 8 世代となり、学習用と推論用に最適化した 2 種類をそろえました。このフルスタックの上で、働く人が実際に触れるのが Gemini Enterprise です。日立製作所やファナックでもすでに導入が進んでいるといいます。
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NTTデータ:自らが Client Zero となって
NTTデータの西村氏は、機微データを守りガバナンスを効かせつつ AI を速く届ける難しさを挙げ、その答えが、自社を実践の場にする Client Zero だと説明しました。同社は 2026 年 6 月に Google Cloud と包括契約を結び、Google Workspace と Gemini Enterprise を大規模に活用する基盤を整備。業務にAIエージェントを組み込んで働き方を見直し、得た知見をお客様への提案につなげるといいます。
NTTデータの西村氏は、機密データを守りガバナンスを効かせつつ AI を速く届ける難しさを挙げ、その答えが、自社を実践の場にする Client Zero だと説明しました。同社は 2026 年 6 月に Google Cloud と包括契約を結び、Google Workspace と Gemini Enterprise を大規模に導入。業務にエージェントを組み込んで働き方を見直し、得た知見をお客様への提案につなげるといいます。
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Gemini Enterprise の進化と、小売の現場デモ
Google Cloud の Lilly McNealus は、Gemini Enterprise を、企業で働く人が AI を利用する入口だと位置づけました。複雑なツールやトークン課金の悩みに対し、シンプルさ、安全性、コスト効率の 3 つの価値を届けると話します。コードなしで使える 24 時間 365 日のスーパー エージェント、一つの管理画面でのガバナンス、目的に合わせてモデルを選べるコスト最適化がそろい、単一のアーキテクチャで統合されています。
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続いて、Google Cloud の岡本によるデモです。店舗を担当する社員が店舗巡回アシスタント エージェントに相談すると、ミネラルウォーターの陳列スペースが足りない点や、古い POP を指摘します。音声メモと写真を渡せば、報告書 PDF が作られ Teams や Outlook へ連携されます。本部の担当者が Gemini Enterprise の Spark に POS や気象データを渡すと、翌朝には熱中症対策商品を目立つ位置に置く棚割り案が届きました。デモのあと Lilly は、目的を伝えれば動く Gemini Spark や、ノーコードで作れる Agent Designer など、Gemini Enterprise の新機能も紹介しました。
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開発者に向けたアップデート
さらに Lilly からは、Gemini Enterprise から直接アクセスできる Antigravity、日本リージョン対応の Gemini Enterprise app、国内で処理を完結できる Gemini 3.5 Flash の一般提供、Anthropic や Mistral なども選べる Model Garden、コード最適化の AlphaEvolve などが紹介されました。
SOMPOホールディングス:グループ 3 万 4,000 人が使う「SOMPO AI エージェント」
SOMPOホールディングスの中島氏は、SOMPOグループの AI 戦略を紹介しました。同グループは今年 1 月、全社員が使う汎用型 AI を従来のチャット型 AI から Gemini Enterprise へ切り替え、3 万 4,000 人へ「SOMPO AI エージェント」として提供しています。決め手は、約款やマニュアルなどの社内ナレッジと相性の良い Gemini Notebook。
ユースケースを拡大するために、会議の録音を自動共有する「SOMPO 音声メモアプリ」を個別開発したほか、レッカー費用を一次チェックする「レカみる」など市民開発では、数か月で 1 万件超のエージェントが生まれ、週 1 回以上使う社員は 80% 超、部長以上では 98% に達しました。
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Sky:5 か月で 2 万個のエージェントを自作
Sky株式会社の太田氏は、処理精度と検索、ガバナンスの強さから Gemini Enterprise を全社導入しました。社員が業務に合う独自エージェントを自作し、単一の用途に分類するのが難しい、複合的なプロンプトが約 48% を占めます。AI への総リクエストは 1 日 1 万 5,000 回から 3 万回へ倍増し、エージェント数は 5 か月で 20,000 個に。作る過程で個人の暗黙知が集まり、可視化されるのも効果的です。
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スクウェア・エニックス:見て、考えて、動く AI
スクウェア・エニックスの荒牧氏は、音や画面を理解するマルチモーダル AI の活用を目指し、Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform を採用しました。今年 8 月に 14 周年を迎えた『ドラゴンクエストX オンライン』において、期間限定のクローズド ベータテストとして開発・提供していた対話型AIバディ「おしゃべりスラミィ」の取り組みが紹介されました。「おしゃべりスラミィ」は、プレイヤーと音声で会話し、プレイ状況に応じて自ら話しかける機能を備えています。
さらに会場では、ゲーム QA 作業の自動化デモ動画として、「船を見たい」という指示に応じて Gemini が地図を開き、コントローラーを操作して QA を進める様子も紹介されました。
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Google Workspace で変わる、ある一日
Google Workspace の Yulie Kwon Kim は、相手の必要を先に汲む「おもてなし」を AI に込めたいと話しました。朝は Google Chat の「デイリーブリーフ」が要点を届け、Sheets Canvas がデータからダッシュボードを作り、Google Meet の Gemini 3.5 Live Translate が 70 以上の言語をつなぎます。さらに、Microsoft 365 からの移行も、従来と比べて最大 5 倍速くなったと紹介されました。
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Google Cloud の服部によるデモでは、Google Workspace に標準搭載される Google Pics で写真のスパークリング ワインをビール ジョッキに差し替え、必要な情報をサイドパネルから呼び込み、AI でスライドの体裁を整えるなど、顧客への案内スライドを数分で仕上げました。
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AI の脅威に AI で備える、そして次の一歩
三上が最後に強調したのは、エージェント時代に欠かせないサイバーセキュリティでした。攻撃者も AI を使う今、脆弱性の悪用までの時間は、この数年で 1.3 年から 1.6 日へと縮まりました。こうした脅威には AI で自律的に立ち向かう必要があります。
Google 自身も月に数万件の脅威レポートを処理し、エージェントで対応時間を 90% 以上短くしました。5 月発表の Google AI Threat Defense を、準備・スキャン・修復・監視の 4 ステップで、NTTデータや NEC、日立製作所、富士通などと日本でも展開します。
電気で 30 年かかった変化を、AI ではどこまで短くできるか。この問いかけとともに、DAY 1 基調講演は幕を閉じました。
Google Cloud Next Tokyo 公式サイトにて基調講演を含むセッションをアーカイブ公開中です。現地 / ライブ配信での視聴が出来なかったという方も、ぜひアーカイブ配信にてセッションの復習や新たな学びのきっかけに、ぜひご活用ください。
エージェント型モバイルアプリ開発のためのデベロッパー デバイス プラットフォームのご紹介
- Link: https://cloud.google.com/blog/ja/topics/developers-practitioners/announcing-developer-device-platform-on-google-cloud/
- Published: 2026-08-25 10:30:00
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※この投稿は米国時間 2026 年 8 月 11 日に、Google Cloud blog に投稿されたものの抄訳です。
ほとんどの企業は、デバイスを通じて顧客と接点を持っています。モバイルアプリを使用した商品の注文、カスタマー サービスへの問い合わせ、コンテンツの閲覧、アカウント管理など、どのような操作においても、カスタマー エクスペリエンスはアプリが顧客のデバイス上でいかにスムーズに動作するかに左右されます。
このため、ローカルで動作するコンポーネントを含むあらゆるエンタープライズ リリースにおいて、多種多様なデバイスでアプリケーションを構築・テストすることは極めて重要です。しかし、デバイスを大規模に調達してホストするには費用がかかり、複雑な作業が必要になります。また、テストは不安定で、判定不能だったり、デバッグが難しかったりすることがよくあります。そのため、多くのデベロッパーは、手元の実機でリリース前のテストを行い、その結果が他のほとんどのデバイスでも通用することを願うしかありません。
この課題を解決するため、このたび Google Cloud において Developer Device Platform(DDP)の公開プレビュー版の提供開始を発表いたしました。DDP は、実機と高並行仮想エミュレータにわたる複数のハードウェア プロファイルに、オンデマンドで即座にアクセスできるフルマネージド クラウド プラットフォームです。DDP は、クラウド デベロッパー向けの Firebase Test Lab の進化版であり、エージェント型開発向けに構築された初のデバイス プラットフォームでもあります。DDP を使用すると、デベロッパーは好みのエージェントを利用して、さまざまなデバイスにわたってアプリのバイブ コーディング、テストの実行、デバッグ、パフォーマンスの最適化を効率的かつ迅速に行うことができます。
アプリを構築してテストし、パフォーマンスを保証する
標準的なモバイル開発ライフサイクルでは、デベロッパーは新しい機能を反復的に開発し、さまざまな対象デバイスでパフォーマンスを保証するために QA テストを実行し、最適化およびデバッグ済みの機能をユーザー向けに本番環境へリリースします。デベロッパー デバイス プラットフォームには、このサイクルを加速させる 2 つの主な機能があります。
デバイス ストリーミングによるインタラクティブなデバッグ: Device Streaming API を使用すると、デベロッパーは選択したエミュレータや実機に直接アクセスし、バイブ コーディング、反復テスト、デバッグ、アプリとのインタラクションをリモートで行うことができます。デバイス ストリーミングを使用すれば、実機のハードウェアでパフォーマンスをモニタリングしながら、カスタマー エクスペリエンスを直接体験し、リアルタイムでスクロールやクリックといった操作を簡単に行うことができます。
デバイスランによる並列テスト: Google の Device Run API を使用すると、デベロッパーは CI / CD パイプラインの一部としてテストを作成し、一度に数百もの異なるデバイスで並列実行できます。得られた結果をもとに、デベロッパーは特定のデバイスに固有の問題をピンポイントで特定してデバッグでき、あらゆる層のデバイスで動作するという確信を持ってコードを本番環境にリリースできます。
DDP エージェント スキルと効率的なテストでモバイルアプリ開発を加速させる
モバイル開発におけるコーディング エージェントの台頭は、特に実機と組み合わせることで新たな可能性を切り開きます。コーディング エージェントは、実機のハードウェアを操作してテストできるため、独自のスマートフォン画面サイズ(折りたたみ式スマートフォンの UI など)や特殊なハードウェア(CPU や GPU など)を活用できます。
Developer Device Platform はまもなく Android Studio と Android CLI に統合され、Device Streaming API を介して実機に直接アクセスできるようになります。DDP エージェント スキルを使用すると、選択した AI コーディング エージェントと連携して開発を加速することもできます。DDP エージェント スキルを使用すると、コーディング エージェントは次のことができます。
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複数のステップから成るユーザー ジャーニーを単独で実行する
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これらのエージェント機能に加えて、DDP ではアプリのパッケージ化や、スマート シャーディングによる並列テストの実行も可能です。これにより、数百台のデバイスにわたるテスト結果をわずか数分で確認できるようになります。スマート自動再試行により、DDP はシャード内で失敗した特定のテストを再試行するため、テストスイート全体を再実行することなく、エラーをより迅速に解決できます。
デベロッパー デバイス プラットフォームで今すぐ開発を始めましょう
8 月 12 日より、Developer Device Platform がすべての Google Cloud ユーザー向けに公開プレビュー版として提供されます。公開プレビュー期間中は、1 分単位の従量課金制モデルに基づいて料金が請求されるため、実際にテストに使用した時間(分)に対してのみ料金が発生します。なお、料金はエミュレータと実機でそれぞれ異なります。
Google Cloud を利用するモバイル デベロッパーが、Developer Device Platform を活用して開発を加速し、増え続ける独自のデバイス機能やオンデバイス AI の可能性を最大限に引き出すことを楽しみにしています。
- Google プロダクト マネージャー、Derek Bekebrede
- プロダクト戦略およびオペレーション担当、Jason Nager
【Google Cloud Next Tokyo 26】DAY 2 基調講演まとめ:インフラからセキュリティまで、フルスタックで支える AI エージェント
- Link: https://cloud.google.com/blog/ja/topics/next-tokyo/google-cloud-next-tokyo-26-day-2-keynote-summary/
- Published: 2026-08-25 11:00:00
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Google Cloud Next Tokyo 26 の Day 2 基調講演では、AI エージェントの実用化をフルスタックで支える最新テクノロジーが勢ぞろいしました。インフラの進化から、エージェント開発、データ基盤、そしてセキュリティまで。GovTech東京 や NTTドコモなど先進企業の実践も交えて、最前線で今何が起きているのか、注目のトピックを分かりやすくお届けします!
見逃した方はぜひこちらからご覧ください。
AI を支えるインフラ
幕開けは Google Cloud の渕野の挨拶から。AI コンピューティングへの需要が急速に高まるなか、ハードウェアからモデル、プラットフォームまで全レイヤーを自ら手がけてきたことが強みだと語りました。その象徴が、クリーン エネルギーや専用インフラを 1 つのエンジンにまとめた AI Hypercomputer です。学習と推論それぞれの要求に合わせた第 8 世代 TPU を用意し、新しいネットワーク Virgo Network は 134,000 個のチップを束ねて 170 万エクサ FLOPS を生み出します。運用の面では、Google Kubernetes Engine(GKE)が 256,000 ノードを 1 つのクラスタにまとめ、大規模な学習も支えます。すでに Woven by Toyota が時空間理解の視覚言語モデルの学習を高速化するなど、多くの企業がこの基盤で成果を上げています。
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エージェントを本番で動かすプラットフォーム
続いて登壇したのは Google Cloud の Brad Calder。エージェントを本番で動かすための Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform を紹介しました。作る出発点はオープンソースの Agent Development Kit (ADK) で、Google Cloud の全サービスが標準で MCP に対応し、エージェント同士は Agent2Agent プロトコル (A2A) で協調します。動かす Agent Runtime、守る Agent Identity や Agent Gateway、Model Armor まで、本番運用に必要な部品が一式そろいました。
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デモでは、Google Cloud の塚越が、Antigravity CLI で作った購買エージェントを動かして見せました。「ノート PC が 3 台ほしい」と頼むと、A2UI が申請ボタンやフォームをその場で組み立て、在庫を確かめて発注を 2 台へ調整します。不正な指示や未登録の MCP への通信は、ポリシーがブロック。開発者が向き合うのは業務ロジックだけです。
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データにコンテキストを与える Agentic Data Cloud
続いて、データの活かし方を語ったのは Google Cloud の Sirish Chandrasekaran です。これまでのデータ基盤は、人が問いかけて初めて答える受け身のものでした。Sirish はこうした仕組みを System of Intelligence と呼びます。これからは、AI が自分で判断して動く System of Action が要ります。そのためには、文書や画像のまま眠っている 9 割の非構造化データにも意味を持たせ、いつでも引き出せるようにしておかなければなりません。これを実現するのが Agentic Data Cloud です。データを動かさずに扱う Borderless Lakehouse、AIエージェントや分析基盤に信頼できるコンテキスト(文脈)を提供する「Knowledge Catalog」、自然言語で分析・実行できる Intent-Driven Outcomes という 3 つの柱で支えます。国内でも、メルカリが「Socrates」を BigQuery や Looker の Semantic Layerを使って、NTT データが決済サービス「ADAPTIS」を AlloyDB 上で動かしています。
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デモでは、Google Cloud の山田が、架空の食品会社のマーケターとして腕を振るいます。話題の「お濃茶ジェラート」を海外に広げるべきか。その判断までふだんは 5 週間かかるところを、5 分に縮めました。PDF に埋もれた原材料の情報を Gemini が読み解き、AWS にある購買データを動かさず BigQuery につなぎ、組み上げたデータエージェントが売上や ROI を予測して、報告スライドまで用意しました。
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1,000万人の都民が使う共通の入り口を目指して
ここで紹介されたのが、GovTech東京 の井原氏です。きっかけは 2024 年 1 月 1 日、能登半島での地震でした。災害のさなかに行政サービスにアクセスできない不安を自ら経験し、行政のデジタル化に飛び込んだといいます。GovTech東京 は東京都と 62 の市区町村と連携し、デジタルサービスを内製する組織です。現在、600 万ダウンロードを超えた東京都公式アプリを、1,000 万人の都民が使う共通の入り口とすることを目指しています。災害時等の集中アクセスでも安定して動き、情報が矛盾なく整合すること。この要件を満たす基盤に Google Cloud を選び、大規模な書き込みと強い整合性を両立できる Spanner を採用しました。
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NTTドコモが目指すフル AI マーケティング
NTTドコモの鈴木氏が語ったのは、フル AI マーケティングの構想です。1 億を超える dポイントのユーザーと 2,000 種類以上の顧客データを前に、一人ひとりに最適な体験を届けるには膨大な検討が欠かせません。着目したのは、社内の資産。5,000 人以上の社員が使うデータ活用アプリのソースコードや利用ログに眠る現場の知識を、AI が読み取れるナレッジに変えました。基盤の Google Cloud なら、月 160 億通の顧客アプローチも、お客様の声や営業社員の日報も、BigQuery でまとめて扱えます。施策設計エージェントは、100 パターンを超えるセグメントへ自動で分け、立案から生成、審査までを自律的に進めます。目指すのは、2027 年のマーケティング フル AI 化です。
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AI の脅威に AI で立ち向かうセキュリティ
渕野が最後に取り上げたのは、エージェント時代に欠かせないセキュリティでした。攻撃側も AI を使いこなす今、Google は共同プロジェクト Big Sleep で未知のゼロデイ脆弱性を AI 単独で見つけ、脆弱性を自動で直す CodeMender も投入しました。CodeMender では、Gemini 3.5 Flash をセキュリティ用途に特化させたカスタムモデル Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber も選べます。渕野が掲げたのは、可視化から優先順位付け、修復、監視までを AI で連携させる AI Threat Defense です。
デモでは、Wiz Cloud Japan の大井が、公開状態の Python 製チャットボットに潜む認証回避の脆弱性をレッド エージェントで突き止め、グリーン エージェントが対策を提案するところを見せました。
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修復役の CodeMender は、Google Cloud の高橋が cm find・cm verify・cm fix で、脆弱性の発見からパッチ作成までを実演しました。防御を人間のスピードからマシンのスピードへ。渕野はそう締めくくりました。
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まとめ
2 日間の基調講演で見えてきたのは、AI エージェントを業務に取り入れる技術が、事例とともに整いつつある姿です。ハードウェアからアプリケーションまで、Google Cloud が一貫してそろえます。最後に、渕野が紹介したのは、手を動かして試せるハンズオンイベント「Build with Gemini Tokyo」や、「第 6 回 AI エージェント事例アワード」。次にこの基盤を活かすのは、みなさんです。来年の Next Tokyo は 8 月 5 日と 6 日。また会場でお会いしましょう。
Google Cloud Next Tokyo 公式サイトにて基調講演を含むセッションをアーカイブ公開中です。現地 / ライブ配信での視聴が出来なかったという方も、ぜひアーカイブ配信にてセッションの復習や新たな学びのきっかけに、ぜひご活用ください。
メジャーがサポートされるようになった BigQuery Graph を使用して、信頼できるエージェント ワークロードを実現
- Link: https://cloud.google.com/blog/ja/products/data-analytics/bigquery-graphs-with-measures-for-trusted-agentic-workloads/
- Published: 2026-08-25 11:00:00
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※この投稿は米国時間 2026 年 8 月 14 日に、Google Cloud blog に投稿されたものの抄訳です。
企業が単純なチャット アシスタントの使用から自律型のエージェント ワークロードに移行すると、すぐに厳しい現実に直面します。それは、エージェントが元テーブルを直接使用する際に、不正確な分析情報を生成する傾向があるということです。
BigQuery Graph は、組織がフラットで静的なテーブルから脱却し、現実世界に存在する企業を正確に表現できるように、つまり、現実世界の依存関係を持つ、相互に接続された事業体として表現できるようにします。BigQuery Graph(プレビュー版)でメジャーがサポートされるようになったことで、管理された指標と関係マッピングが統合されます。これにより、エージェントはグラフで収集された複雑な依存関係全体について、メジャーの精度に基づいて推論できます。
関係が重要な理由
従来のデータ構造では、マルチホップのビジネス コンテキストが考慮されないため、次のように、AI エージェントが運用上誤った意思決定を行うことがあります。
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具体的な問題: 小売業者のエージェントが、シアトルでの冬用ジャケットの売り上げが 12% 減少した理由を尋ねられた場合、フラット テーブルをクエリして、「事実」(12% の減少)を報告することはできますが、「シアトルの注文 ➔ 配送センター ➔ 地域の嵐によるサプライヤーの遅延」という関係パスを追跡できないため、「理由」を特定することはできません。
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分断されたシステムのリスク: 関係のコンテキストがないため、エージェントが関連性のない 15% オフのキャンペーンを提案し、不必要に利益率を低下させます。さらに、あるチームがサプライヤーの関係を別のグラフ データベースにマッピングし、別のチームが SQL 指標を維持するというように、別々のシステムを維持すると、エージェントは実行時にこれらのスタックを結合せざるを得なくなります。このプロセスは時間がかかり、費用もかさみ、KPI の計算に一貫性がなくなります。
BigQuery Graph のメジャーは、既存のテーブルをプロパティ グラフにインプレースでマッピングし、ETL を不要にすることで、この問題を解決します。この統合された設定により、次のような問い合わせの論理的な進化が可能になります。
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メタデータのグラウンディングは、存在するデータを確立します。
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ビジネス指標(メジャー)は、ビジネスのパフォーマンスを計算します。
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関係マッピング(グラフ)は、それが起こった理由を明らかにします。
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従来、グラフ走査中の標準 SQL の結合では行が重複し、集計計算が不正確になっていました。BigQuery Graph は、これをネイティブに解決します。
データモデラーは、プロパティ グラフ DDL 内で直接 MEASURE(SUM や AVG など)を定義します。エンジンは GRAPH_EXPAND 関数と AGG アグリゲータを介して標準 SQL を使用して、指標を評価する前に構造グラフのパスを解決します。これにより、エージェントは計算機(SQL)が必要なときと地図(グラフ)が必要なときを認識できるほどスマートになります。
bigquery-public-data のような一般公開プロジェクトは厳密に読み取り専用であるため、読み取り専用の一般公開テーブルをノードおよびエッジとして直接参照しながら、プレースホルダ変数(YOUR_PROJECT_ID)を使用して独自のプロジェクト内で論理プロパティ グラフをマッピングする必要があります。
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BigQuery Studio でグラフ インテリジェンスを民主化
デベロッパーとビジネス ユーザーの双方が、これらの関係ネットワークをスムーズに管理、デプロイできるように、直感的なネイティブ運用ツールを BigQuery Studio に直接組み込みました。
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- 会話型分析(CA)のインテグレーション: ユーザーはグラフと自然にやり取りできます。会話型分析エージェントは、テーブル結合を推測するのではなく、グラフの決定論的な関係認識マップをナビゲートし、自然言語の質問を、境界が制約された正確な GoogleSQL クエリまたは ISO GQL クエリに変換します。これにより、モデルのハルシネーションを防ぎ、セマンティックな一貫性を確保します。
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統合されたセマンティクス: Looker とのネイティブなインテグレーション
断片化されたロジック スタックの維持を避けるために、ビジネス指標はデータレイヤに存在する必要があります。Looker(LookML)を、データベース内分析モデルとしての BigQuery Graphs とネイティブに統合することで、コアでロジックを一度定義するだけで済みます。
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エンタープライズ DevOps ワークフロー: Looker IDE、Git ベースのバージョン管理、継続的インテグレーション(CI)を使用して、グラフのライフサイクル全体を管理します。主要な KPI(離脱率など)は、検証済みで、信頼できる、まったく同じものが維持されます。
- Google Cloud、グループ プロダクト マネージャー、Deepak Dayama
- ソフトウェア開発マネージャー、Yun Zhang
TelevisaUnivision が Google Cloud を利用して FIFA ワールドカップを数百万人にストリーミング配信
- Link: https://cloud.google.com/blog/ja/products/networking/streaming-the-fifa-world-cup-with-televisaunivision/
- Published: 2026-08-25 11:00:00
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※この投稿は米国時間 2026 年 8 月 8 日に、Google Cloud blog に投稿されたものの抄訳です。
スポーツのライブ配信は、デジタル メディア インフラストラクチャにとって究極のストレステストとなります。運営面の成否はミリ秒単位で評価され、何百万人もの視聴者が生で同時に目にします。2026 FIFA ワールドカップ開催期間中、スペイン語メディアの大手コングロマリットである TelevisaUnivision は、大きな課題に直面しました。メキシコは主要な開催国であると同時に、代表チームが有力な優勝候補であったため、ファンの関心は高く、ラテンアメリカ全域と TelevisaUnivision の ViX ストリーミング プラットフォームで前例のない需要が発生しました。
TelevisaUnivision のような大手放送局にとって、重要なイベントはブランドと評判に直接的かつ長期的な影響を及ぼします。視聴者は、試合の重要な瞬間を、途切れることなく、鮮明に視聴することを求めています。決定的なゴールシーンでの映像の中断、キックオフ時のログイン遅延、ストリーミング解像度の低下は、顧客満足度に直接影響し、サブスクライバーの離脱やブランドの希薄化を招くリスクがあります。トップレベルの世界的スポーツ イベントをストリーミング配信する場合、技術面の運用が消費者の信頼に直接影響するため、プロバイダはダウンタイムなしの可用性と完璧なパフォーマンスを絶対に確保する必要があります。
TelevisaUnivision が Google Cloud を選んだ理由
ISP の細分化が激しく、国境を越えた中継のボトルネックが目立つラテンアメリカの複雑なネットワーキング エコシステムに対応するには、標準的なベンダー関係以上のものが必要でした。TelevisaUnivision は、ネットワーク容量、インフラストラクチャの復元力、カスタム機能の開発に共同で取り組んでくれる戦略的パートナーを必要としていました。TelevisaUnivision が Google Cloud の Media CDN を選んだ理由は、Google Cloud のアーキテクチャと顧客重視の姿勢という 2 つの基本的な差別化要因でした。
プラットフォーム アーキテクチャ
Media CDN は、送信元インフラストラクチャを保護しながら、ライブ配信のトラフィックの急増を吸収するために特別に構築された、グローバルに分散された復元力のあるインフラストラクチャを提供しました。このアーキテクチャがもたらした主なメリットは次のとおりです。
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ISP 内のディープ エッジ キャッシング: メキシコ、中南米のローカル ISP ネットワーク内に深く埋め込まれた Media CDN のキャッシュ ノードにより、視聴者から 1 ネットワーク ホップ以内の場所に動画セグメントが配置されました。
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ISP とのダイレクト ピアリング: América Móvil や Telefônica などの主要な地域通信事業者とのダイレクト ピアリング接続を確立することで、混雑した多国間の中継ルートを完全に回避するアーキテクチャが実現しました。
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専用容量の予約: TelevisaUnivision は、リージョン内で専用のヘッドルームを割り当ててライブイベントの容量を予約しました。この方法により、ライブ配信のトラフィックが「ノイジー ネイバー」のリスクから隔離され、ピーク時のトラフィック急増を無理なく吸収できました。
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Valkey 9.0 によるミリ秒未満のセッション: ワールドカップ期間中の大規模なトラフィック急増に対処するため、TelevisaUnivision はセッション ストアを Memorystore for Valkey 9.0 に移行し、エッジ コンピューティング上のサーバーレス マイクロサービスとして稼働させました。このアーキテクチャにより、重要な認証と権限チェックの応答時間が 1 ミリ秒未満になり、手動で容量を予約しなくても、ピーク時の API トラフィックを自動スケーリングで処理できるようになりました。
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カスタマー サクセスへのこだわり
TelevisaUnivision が Google Cloud を選んだのには、技術的な能力だけでなく、共同エンジニアリング モデルや運用面での緊密な連携といった理由もありました。
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24 時間 365 日の共同ウォールーム: 104 試合すべてで、TelevisaUnivision のエンジニアと Google Cloud のスペシャリストが統合コマンド センターで並んで作業しました。
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サービスとしてのプロアクティブなモニタリング: Google Cloud の顧客信頼性エンジニアリング チームが、24 時間体制でプロアクティブなモニタリングと自動アラートを提供しました。
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運用面の共同権限: 大会前に、両チームが合同で、広範なストレステストとフェイルオーバーのシミュレーションを実施しました。試合のライブ配信中は、統合されたテレメトリーにより、共同リーダーがトラフィックを動的にルーティングし、地域の ISP で輻輳が発生したときに CDN 構成を即座に調整することができました。
まとめ
2026 FIFA ワールドカップにおける TelevisaUnivision と Google Cloud の戦略的パートナーシップは、世界のスポーツ放送の新たな基準を確立しました。TelevisaUnivision は、39 日間にわたるトーナメントの実施期間中、共同インフラストラクチャが以下の成果を上げたと報告しています。
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104 試合をライブ配信 |
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プラットフォームの可用性 100%(ダウンタイム 0) |
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累積視聴回数 |
TelevisaUnivision と ViX で 6 億 7,500 万回視聴 |
TelevisaUnivision と Google Cloud は、ローカライズされたエッジ配信、ミリ秒未満のサーバーレス コンピューティング、運用における専任の共同エンジニアリングを統合することで、過去最高の世界的規模でライブ ストリーミング イベントを実施するための、実証済みのブループリントを確立しました。
- TelevisaUnivision、プロダクトおよびエンジニアリング担当シニア バイス プレジデント、Alexandro David Campos Vega 氏
- Google Cloud、ネットワーキング、プロダクト管理担当バイス プレジデント、Kevin Hutchins
Google Cloud Blog (AI & ML)
Now introducing Gemini Enterprise for Legal
- Link: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/introducing-gemini-enterprise-for-legal/
- Published: 2026-08-25 21:00:00
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Few professions are as exacting as the practice of law. A team reviewing a contract or building a case works inside strictly privileged information, firm-specific playbooks, and a body of law that changes constantly. The work thrives on nuanced, professional judgment — and the systems supporting it inherit real obligations: ethical walls that cannot be crossed, matter permissions that cannot be flattened, and a duty of confidentiality that does not bend for convenience.
General-purpose AI, however capable, does not meet that standard on its own. Foundational model intelligence is necessary. For legal work, it is nowhere near sufficient.
What makes the difference is the system built around the model: skills that enhance a firm's own expertise, connections into the systems where matters actually live, agents that complete work rather than return suggestions, and an open ecosystem to extend all of it — with governance running underneath all four. Each is valuable alone. Only in combination do they produce something a firm or a legal department can put into production and actually rely on.
Today we're bringing that to legal practice with Gemini Enterprise for Legal, part of our new suite of purpose-built industry solutions.
Bringing Gemini Enterprise to your legal practice
Four components of Gemini Enterprise for Legal
Developed alongside industry leaders, Gemini Enterprise for Legal provides an integrated, fully governed environment configured for rapid deployment across firms and corporate legal departments:
1. Purpose-built skills for legal work. Skills are reusable packages of instructions and context, designed by domain experts, that teach an agent to run a specialized task while enforcing your firm's playbooks, citation rules, and house style. They cover contract review and redlining, playbook creation, regulatory horizon scanning, legal research, DSAR fulfillment, and more — and they are where a firm's institutional knowledge becomes something the platform can execute rather than something a partner has to re-explain.
2. Connections to trusted systems and data. Secure MCP connectors link agents to the document management systems, case repositories, research services, and industry applications legal teams already rely on — inheriting each platform's existing user permissions and access controls rather than working around them.
3. Agents that act within the data. Skills and connections come together in agents that carry work through: pre-built agents from Google and leading legal software providers deploy out of the box. Specialized agents handle legal and policy research, regulatory screening, and contract drafting — bringing deep legal expertise onto a platform with centralized governance.
4. An open partner ecosystem. Every firm and legal department practices differently. Partnerships with global systems integrators and legal-tech specialists — Accenture, Deloitte, Devoteam, Factor Law, KPMG, Tribe.ai, Valtech, Zazmic, Zencore, and 66degrees — let organizations customize, integrate, and scale across complex enterprise architectures without vendor lock-in.
Running underneath: a governed control plane. A single dashboard for legal IT and risk teams that natively enforces security policies (VPC, CMEK), maintains private data isolation, and holds every output to verifiable grounding with traceable citations.
Unlocking high-value workflows with domain-specific skills
Gemini Enterprise for Legal shifts AI from passive querying to agentic execution, automating high-volume, precision-critical workflows such as:
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Proactive regulatory horizon scanning: Keeps legal and compliance teams ahead of global mandates by autonomously tracking legislative updates, court dockets, and supervisory bodies. It cross-references emerging changes against enterprise policies to flag exposure gaps and generate updated policy drafts for immediate practitioner review.
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Automating data discovery and DSAR response: Modernizes privacy workflows by compiling personal data across fragmented enterprise systems in seconds. It eliminates the manual toil of Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs), and allows for adherence to regulatory timelines while minimizing operational risk.
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Accelerating contract review and negotiation: Compresses turnaround times for inbound vendor agreements, NDAs, and complex M&A documentation by benchmarking terms against enterprise playbooks. It surfaces high-risk clauses and potential exposure, enabling attorneys to focus on strategic negotiation and high-value judgment.
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Building and updating contracting playbooks: Transforms legacy agreement archives into dynamic, actionable playbooks instantly. It automatically extracts key terms, fallback positions, and institutional knowledge to maintain portfolio-wide term consistency and lower negotiation variance across the enterprise.
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Redacting documents for motions to seal: Eliminates the manual burden of preparing court filings and redacting legal documents. It intelligently identifies sensitive terms and PII for rapid practitioner confirmation, dramatically accelerating filing timelines while safeguarding confidentiality.
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Drafting NDA documents: Elevates contract creation through structural fidelity validation that enforces firm standards and logical document hierarchies. It allows legal teams to rapidly generate and evolve non-disclosure agreements with complete formatting confidence and minimal review overhead.
Open ecosystem of connectors across the legal technology stack
Legal work is only as good as its sources, and legal data carries permissions that have to travel with it. Gemini Enterprise for Legal connects directly to core legal systems via secure MCP connectors. Crucially, access is bound by existing role-based access controls, document-level permissions, and trusted data controls inherited from document management and ediscovery systems.
Productivity and collaboration:
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Google Workspace: Connects seamlessly with Google Docs, Gmail, Drive, and Sheets to analyze matter communications, correspondence, and surface internal files while enforcing enterprise access controls.
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Microsoft 365: Integrates directly with Word, Outlook, and SharePoint to triage inquiries, redlines, and securely ground work product across emails and matter folders without breaking workflow context.
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iManage: Gives Gemini Enterprise for Legal permission-bound, auditable access to governed iManage content, including matter history, documents, and institutional knowledge, eliminating the need for bulk exports or custom integrations.
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NetDocuments: Enables Gemini Enterprise to search and analyze an organization's knowledge and expertise while preserving each user's existing permissions and ethical walls. Source documents never leave the governed NetDocuments environment.
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Docusign: Integrates agreement metadata, active approval workflows, and contract repositories to surface obligations, track renewal dates, and streamline drafting-to-execution lifecycles.
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Everlaw: Connects Gemini Enterprise to litigation and investigations evidence in Everlaw, allowing legal teams to search and analyze their data, uncover case insights, and build timelines directly in Gemini Enterprise, with responses grounded in the underlying documents and access governed by each user’s existing Everlaw permissions.
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RelativityOne: Allows legal teams to stand up workspaces, organize case data, and manage operations within a secure perimeter.
Primary law, research, and public dockets:
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Thomson Reuters HighQ: Connects Gemini Enterprise for Legal with HighQ, helping legal teams securely access and reference relevant HighQ content within their workflows.
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Free Law Project’s CourtListener.com: Provides access to millions of federal and state court opinions, PACER dockets, judicial profiles, and oral arguments.
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Courtroom5: Delivers jurisdiction-aware civil litigation datasets, procedural rules, and deadline calculation logic.
Specialized legal AI and intellectual property:
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Harvey: Bridges Harvey’s legal reasoning intelligence into Gemini Enterprise, supporting complex legal reasoning and research across Vault projects.
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Solve Intelligence: Links Gemini Enterprise to worldwide patent and non-patent literature, SEP technical standards, and prior art databases for patent drafting and claim charting.
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Legora: Agentic operating system for legal work, supporting lawyers in research, review, and drafting across complex matters
Third-party agents and implementation partners
Every firm and legal department practices differently. Through our open platform, organizations can deploy pre-built partner agents or collaborate with systems integrators to scale custom capabilities:
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Deloitte: Contract Summarize Pro Agent that synthesizes complex contracts into clear summaries for rapid insight and informed decision-making. Clause Guard contract redlining agent to accelerate turnaround times, and minimize risk in contract management.
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Eudia Knowledge agent: Accelerates high-stakes legal and contracting work by combining institutional intelligence with a suite of agents that execute deep legal research, high-volume document analysis, and regulatory compliance screening.
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Global systems integrators & tech partners: Strategic partnerships with Accenture, Deloitte, Devoteam, Factor Law, KPMG, Tribe.ai, Valtech, Zazmic, Zencore, and 66degrees ensure legal teams can customize, integrate, and scale these capabilities across complex enterprise architectures without vendor lock-in.
Gemini Enterprise for Legal offers leading firms a way to manage modern legal work with a secure agentic platform
Developed alongside leading global law firms
We are working closely with leading law firms, including Cleary Gottlieb, Freshfields, Weil, and Williams & Connolly, to ensure these capabilities address the realities of sophisticated legal practice.
“Cleary is committed to embedding AI into our workflows in strategic and competitive ways. Using Google’s Gemini Enterprise, which can slot in seamlessly with other daily work tools, we can unlock greater efficiencies for our teams and help them deliver even higher quality work for our clients.” — Jeff Karpf, Managing Partner, Cleary Gottlieb.
“The legal sector is entering a period of accelerated change and transformation. For Freshfields the opportunity lies in how effectively we combine frontier technology like Gemini Enterprise for Legal with our expertise, robust governance and institutional knowledge to create value for our clients. Our strategic, multi-year partnership with Google Cloud is helping us accelerate that work and enhance how we deliver legal services.” — Alan Mason, Global Managing Partner, Freshfields.
“We’re thrilled to partner with Google Cloud in the early adoption of Gemini Enterprise for Legal. We look forward to integrating Google’s technology to streamline workflow and further support our litigators in shaping outcomes critical to our clients’ futures.” — Joe Petrosinelli, Chairman, Williams & Connolly.
"Our collaboration with Google gives us early access to emerging capabilities while allowing us to help shape the platform based on the realities of sophisticated legal practice. The result is technology that helps us continue to deliver the innovative, high-quality service our clients expect from Weil. We are looking forward to working with Google Cloud engineers and the Gemini Enterprise product team as we further innovate and evolve our AI capabilities." — Ramona Nee, Incoming Executive Partner, Weil.
Weil scales judicial insights with Benchmark, built on Gemini Enterprise
Built on an enterprise-grade foundation
Confidentiality is not a feature of legal technology; it is the precondition for using any at all. Because Gemini Enterprise for Legal runs on Google Cloud infrastructure and the Gemini Enterprise platform, the permissions and access controls your firm already maintains are the boundaries the platform operates within — not settings it asks you to reconstruct.
Client data, firm-specific playbooks, intellectual property, custom agents, and model outputs stay private to your organization, and are never used to train or fine-tune Google's foundation models. Because we operate the full stack, from infrastructure and models through the application layer, we can tune performance and cost together — so expanding what your teams can take on does not mean expanding spend at the same rate.
This is just the beginning
The launch of Gemini Enterprise for Legal represents another defining step in delivering on the promise of Gemini Enterprise: bringing the best of Google AI to every professional, for every workflow, natively tailored to the way they work.
Gemini Enterprise for Legal is available in preview today, launching alongside our new purpose-built solution for Financial Services. We invite law firms and legal teams to explore how Gemini Enterprise can transform their most critical workflows, with solutions for Healthcare, Life Sciences, and other Professional Services on the horizon.
Now introducing Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services
- Link: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/introducing-gemini-enterprise-for-financial-services/
- Published: 2026-08-25 21:00:00
- Fetched: 2026-08-27 21:31:31
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Protecting capital in today's markets requires immense speed and precision. A financial analyst preparing a deal memo works across licensed market data, internal models, and confidential client files. General-purpose AI lacks the real-time accuracy, verifiable data lineage, and strict security that financial institutions demand. While model intelligence is necessary, without deep integration into trusted financial systems, it is not sufficient.
Making AI genuinely useful inside an industry requires four things, together: domain expertise encoded into reusable skills, secure connections to the systems and data the work depends on, agents that can act inside real workflows, and an open ecosystem that extends and scales all of it — with governance running underneath all four. Each is valuable alone. Only together do they produce something an institution can actually put into production and see true return on investment.
Today, we are delivering on this vision with Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services, bringing Google’s agentic AI directly into the workflows of capital markets and corporate banking.
Bringing Gemini Enterprise into the workflows of capital markets and corporate banking
Four components, built for financial work
Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services delivers an integrated, secure environment configured for rapid deployment with four core components:
1. Purpose-built financial skills. Skills are reusable packages of instructions and context that teach an agent to run a specialized task the way your institution runs it — applying custom formatting to a report, pulling a specific data cut, following a defined research methodology. They are available inside the Financial Research agent and to any agent your teams build.
2. Secure Model Context Protocol (MCP) connectors. Direct integrations, using MCP, into essential financial platforms and licensed data sources, configured inside your own environment. Access stays bound by the entitlements you already maintain — licensed data stays licensed, and permissioned data stays permissioned.
3. Agents that act. At its core is the Financial Research agent which is a Google-built, Google-managed agent that runs end-to-end research with full explainability. It ships with more than 50 foundational skills and exposes its reasoning through confidence scores, explicit methodologies, data snapshots for auditing, and precise source citations. Analysts can use it directly in the Gemini Enterprise app or wire it into existing agent workflows through Agent-to-Agent (A2A) APIs, and it connects to enterprise data sources over MCP to produce reports and documents in the formats your teams already use. Alongside it, out-of-the-box partner agents cover other workflows and extend the capabilities further.
4. An open partner ecosystem. Scale with global systems integrators and specialized fintech providers including 66degrees, Accenture, Artefact, Capgemini, Cognizant, Deloitte, Genpact, GFT Technologies, Infosys, KPMG, PwC, Quantiphi, Slalom, Tribe AI, and Zencore to customize and integrate the platform into your own architecture, without vendor lock-in.
Running underneath: a governed control plane. A single dashboard for IT and risk teams that natively enforces security policies (VPC, CMEK), maintains private data isolation, and holds every output to verifiable grounding with traceable citations.
Unlocking high-value workflows with domain-specific skills
Whether used by private equity specialists, wealth managers, or compliance teams, the solution adapts to diverse workflows like credit risk assessment, portfolio monitoring, market news synthesis, and investigative financial research:
- Elevate advisor insights: Equips relationship managers and advisors with AI-generated insights, personalized recommendations, and tailored artifacts, enabling higher-quality conversations and fostering loyalty.
- Deepen Know Your Customer (KYC) research and analysis: Modernizes onboarding and Know Your Customer (KYC) workflows across private banking and prime brokerage by using multi-format ingestion (PDFs, Excel, SEC filings) to map complex corporate hierarchies, evaluate risk personas, and resolve ultimate beneficial owners (UBOs).
- Enhance portfolio resilience: Helps trading desks deal with sudden macroeconomic shocks. It reduces complex bond portfolio risk exposure analysis to a sub-5-minute execution, complete with automated duration-hedging strategy suggestions.
- Uncover credit market opportunities: Transforms credit data into actionable trade ideas by identifying and isolating potential mispricings. This enables teams to expand trading volumes while lowering back-office risk and underwriting latency.
- Accelerate bond issuance: Compresses client pitch presentation timelines from days to minutes so that fixed-income and underwriting teams can proactively target prospects, increase deal capacity, and secure a crucial first-mover advantage to help win more business.
Open ecosystem of connectors across the financial technology stack
Gemini Enterprise connects directly to core financial systems via secure MCP connectors. Access is bound by existing role-based controls, ensuring verifiable grounding and precise source citations:
Productivity and collaboration:
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Google Workspace: Enables seamless analysis and live artifact generation across Docs, Sheets, and Slides while adhering to enterprise DLP policies.
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Microsoft 365: Integrates directly with Excel, Word, and PowerPoint to populate financial models, research memos, and client pitch decks.
Market data and financial fundamentals:
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Daloopa: Provides the structured, source-linked financial data layer that enables finance professionals and AI tools to produce accurate and auditable results.
- FactSet: Enables secure, authorized access to FactSet's multi-asset class financial and non-financial datasets, powering reliable AI-driven workflows with fully auditable, compliant insights.
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Finnhub: Provides real-time financial APIs, global fundamentals, and earnings call transcripts for in-depth financial research.
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Fiscal.ai: Delivers institutional-grade financial data within minutes of earnings, covering financials, news, ownership, segments & KPIs, filings, and earnings call transcripts.
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Guidepoint: Connects to primary research insights and expert network transcripts to inform and validate investment theses.
- S&P Global: Integrates cited, verifiable S&P Global data for a range of workflows, from financial analysis, to peer benchmarking, industry research, and more.
Risk, ratings, and private markets:
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Moody’s: Brings ratings, default risk models, and real time news fused into one lens for counterparty risk assessment.
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MSCI: Connects to proprietary indexes, data and models spanning public and private assets and also provides risk analytics and factor exposures.
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PitchBook: Provides comprehensive data and research on private equity, venture capital, credit, M&A, and public markets, including, company financials, deal terms, valuations, and fund performance.
Regulatory and corporate records:
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SEC Edgar: Delivers instant, verifiable retrieval of statutory filings, 10-Ks, 10-Qs, and 8-Ks with precise citation mapping.
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Dun & Bradstreet: Accelerates commercial onboarding and KYB verification through direct access to global corporate hierarchy records.
Digital assets and indices:
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CoinDesk Data and Indices: Supplies institutional-grade digital asset pricing, benchmark indices, and crypto market intelligence for multi-asset strategies.
Introducing Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services
Third-party agents and implementation partners
Organizations can deploy out-of-the-box partner agents or collaborate with global systems integrators to scale custom capabilities without vendor lock-in:
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D&B Business Verification agent: Accelerates commercial onboarding and strengthens KYC compliance.
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FlowX agents: Automate loan pack completeness check, document reconciliation and many other mission critical processes for financial institutions.
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Obin Financial agent: Helps asset management, commercial lending, and insurance teams accelerate complex financial analyses.
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S&P Global agents: Data Retrieval Agent for multi-step analysis, report generation, research workflows, and the Horizons Agents that help turn complex energy and sustainability data into fast insights for finance workflows.
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Global systems integrators and tech partners: Strategic partnerships connect firms with specialist FinTech and leading global systems integrators, including 66degrees, Accenture, Artefact, Capgemini, Cognizant, Deloitte, Genpact, GFT Technologies, Infosys, KPMG, PwC, Quantiphi, Slalom, Tribe AI, and Zencore to manage custom configurations and deploy specialized capabilities at a global scale.
Developed alongside leading global financial institutions
We are developing these capabilities in close collaboration with financial institutions, including Deutsche Bank and CME Group, to ensure they reflect the operational realities of the industry.
“As a design partner for the Financial Research agent, Deutsche Bank has helped shape this capability in view of the realities of a highly regulated industry – from data protection and governance to the workflows our teams use every day,” said Marie-Jeanne Deverdun, Chief Technology, Data and Innovation Officer, and Member of the Deutsche Bank Management Board. “Starting in the Corporate Bank, we see significant potential to reduce manual research effort, improve the consistency and auditability of outputs, and give our teams more time for client conversations. This is an important step in applying AI where it can make a practical difference: safely, responsibly and at scale.”
This launch builds on the rapidly growing momentum of Gemini Enterprise, with many leading financial institutions like BNY, Citi Wealth, Lloyds Banking Group, Macquarie Bank, and Signal Iduna using it to equip their workforce with advanced, agentic workflow tools to drive growth and efficiency.
Built on an enterprise-grade foundation
Because Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services runs on Google Cloud infrastructure and the Gemini Enterprise platform, organizations get the security, governance, compliance, and cost-management capabilities they expect from an enterprise platform.
Customer data, business rules, intellectual property, custom agents, and model outputs remain private to their organization. Your data is never used to train or fine-tune Google’s foundation models. Furthermore, our full-stack approach - from infrastructure and models to the application layer - allows us to optimize performance and cost, helping organizations maximize the value of their AI investments.
This is just the beginning
Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services is available in preview today, launching alongside our new purpose-built solution for Legal. We invite enterprise leaders in financial institutions to explore how Gemini Enterprise can transform their most critical workflows, with solutions for Healthcare, Life Sciences, and other Professional Services on the horizon.
Google Cloud Status
RESOLVED: We are investigating an issue where customers may experience timeouts, service degradations, errors, and elevated latencies across multiple products in the us-west1 region.
- Link: https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/utF3FMFdQfwBzJcGG6vf
- Published: 2026-08-25 15:20:03
- Fetched: 2026-08-27 21:31:34
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Incident began at 2026-08-20 08:40 and ended at 2026-08-20 12:20 (all times are US/Pacific).
Preliminary Incident Report
We sincerely apologize for the disruption this incident caused to your business operations. Recognizing your reliance on Google Cloud, we express our sincere regrets for any operational impact experienced. Our engineering teams are actively addressing the underlying root cause to prevent future recurrences.
Please note that the information provided herein reflects our current understanding as of the time of publication and remains subject to revision as the investigation progresses. A comprehensive Incident Report detailing preventive measures will be issued upon conclusion of our inquiry.
If you have experienced impact outside of what is listed below, please reach out to Google Cloud Support using https://cloud.google.com/support.
Date/Time of the Issue (All time US/Pacific)
- Incident Start: 20 August 2026 08:00
- Incident End: 20 August 2026 10:22
- Duration: 2 hours, 22 minutes
Summary
On Thursday, 20 August 2026, multiple Google Cloud services encountered elevated latency, provisioning failures, increased error rates, and service degradations lasting for a duration of 2 hours and 22 minutes.
Preliminary Root Cause
The disruption originated during scheduled fiber optic maintenance, which unexpectedly compromised network capacity between data centers within the us-west1 region. Automated rerouting mechanisms failed to properly redistribute traffic to alternate capacity, resulting in network congestion as volumes exceeded available bandwidth in the affected area.
This underlying network degradation subsequently impacted higher-level service components through request throttling, increased latency, and cascading retries. Consequently, both control plane operations and data plane requests failed to execute successfully across several dependent Google Cloud services, producing the observed latency and elevated error rates.
Remediation
Internal monitoring alerted Google engineers to the incident, confirming that multiple services across us-west1 were affected. To mitigate the immediate operational impact, engineers initiated traffic draining protocols, re-routing service workloads away from the degraded network infrastructure. Following the restoration of inter-campus network capacity and the resolution of the core issue, engineers systematically restored traffic to the us-west1 region and confirmed service normalization. Long-term engineering solutions are currently being finalized and assigned to address the root cause and strengthen system resilience regarding fiber maintenance procedures.
Description of Impact
On Thursday, August 20, between 08:00 and 10:22 US/Pacific, Google Cloud customers in the us-west1 region encountered elevated latency, provisioning failures, and increased error rates.
- Proportionate Impact / Error Rates: The precise scope of impact—including the proportion of affected projects and applications—and detailed error metrics will be published in the comprehensive Root Cause Analysis, as the reduced capacity caused request throttling, latency spikes, and increased retry volume.
- Scope Exclusion: Services and workloads operating in regions other than us-west1 remained fully operational and unaffected.
Affected Services and Features
The following services experienced elevated latencies and/or increased error rates, across their respective data planes and control planes:
- AlloyDB
- Apache Kafka
- Apigee Edge Public Cloud
- Apigee X
- Artifact Registry
- BigQuery & BigQuery Data Transfer Service
- Cloud Build
- Cloud Data Fusion
- Cloud Dataflow
- Cloud Filestore
- Cloud Key Management Service (KMS)
- Cloud Monitoring
- Cloud Run
- Cloud SQL
- Contact Center AI Platform
- Dataproc Metastore
- Google App Engine
- Google Cloud Bigtable
- Google Cloud Pub/Sub
- Google Cloud Storage (GCS)
- Google Compute Engine (GCE)
- Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
- Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Managed Airflow (Cloud Composer) *Managed Service for Apache Spark (Dataproc) Persistent Disk
Affected products: AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Apigee Edge Public Cloud, Apigee X, Artifact Registry, BigQuery Data Transfer Service, Cloud Build, Cloud Data Fusion, Cloud Filestore, Cloud Key Management Service, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Run, Contact Center AI Platform, Dataproc Metastore, Google App Engine, Google BigQuery, Google Cloud Bigtable, Google Cloud Composer, Google Cloud Dataflow, Google Cloud Dataproc, Google Cloud Pub/Sub, Google Cloud SQL, Google Cloud Storage, Google Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, Identity and Access Management, Managed Service for Apache Kafka, Persistent Disk
Affected locations: Global, Oregon (us-west1)