# News: Google Next: April 23, 2026

> 21 curated links on AI agents, Python, security, Google Cloud, and engineering, selected by Médéric Hurier.

- Author: [Médéric Hurier (Fmind)](https://www.fmind.dev/)
- Published: 2026-04-23
- URL: https://www.fmind.dev/news/2026-04-23-google-next/

- [Introducing Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform](<https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/introducing-gemini-enterprise-agent-platform>): Vertex AI evolves into a unified platform for building, scaling, and governing agents, introducing Agent Studio and long-term memory capabilities via Memory Bank.
- [One platform for agent development](<https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/the-new-gemini-enterprise-one-platform-for-agent-development>): Gemini Enterprise becomes the singular hub for the agent lifecycle, integrating Agent Identity, Registry, and Gateway for enterprise-grade control.
- [Agents CLI - From Create to Production](<https://developers.googleblog.com/agents-cli-in-agent-platform-create-to-production-in-one-cli>): A new CLI tool simplifies the agent development workflow, enabling developers to move from local prototyping to production deployment in a single environment.
- [What's new in Gemini Enterprise](<https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/whats-new-in-gemini-enterprise>): Key updates include the Agentic Developer Kit (ADK) and new agent-specific governance features to manage autonomous AI behavior at scale.
- [Introducing Workspace Intelligence](<https://workspace.google.com/blog/product-announcements/introducing-workspace-intelligence>): A new semantic layer across Workspace that enables "Google Drive Projects," transforming storage into a contextual collaborator.
- [Workspace Intelligence with Admin Controls](<https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2026/04/introducing-workspace-intelligence-with-admin-controls.html>): New administrative settings allow IT teams to manage how Workspace Intelligence accesses and processes internal company data for agentic workflows.
- [Ask Gemini in Drive is Generally Available](<https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2026/04/ask-gemini-in-drive-now-generally-available.html>): Users can now interact with their entire Drive via a conversational interface to synthesize information and take actions across files.
- [AI Overviews in Gmail Search](<https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2026/04/search-faster-and-smarter-with-ai-overviews-in-Gmail-search.html>): Gmail search now provides AI-generated summaries of email threads and documents to help users find information faster without opening individual messages.
- [Introducing the Google Cloud Knowledge Catalog](<https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/introducing-the-google-cloud-knowledge-catalog>): A dynamic context graph that maps an organization's entire business data to provide high-fidelity grounding for AI agents.
- [The Future of Data Lakehouse for the Agentic Era](<https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/the-future-of-data-lakehouse-for-the-agentic-era>): Google Cloud enhances the lakehouse architecture with a Cross-Cloud capability, allowing agents to query AWS and Azure data without copying it.
- [Looker updates for Agentic BI](<https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/business-intelligence/looker-updates-for-agentic-bi-at-next26>): Looker adds "Agentic BI" features, enabling AI agents to perform complex data analysis and generate insights autonomously via the Looker Semantic Layer.
- [What's new in the Agentic Data Cloud](<https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/whats-new-in-the-agentic-data-cloud>): Updates include the Lightning Engine for Apache Spark, which is up to 4.5x faster, specifically optimized for grounding AI agents in real-time.
- [Redefining Security with Google Cloud and Wiz](<https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/next26-redefining-security-for-the-ai-era-with-google-cloud-and-wiz>): Following the acquisition, Wiz features are deeply integrated to provide "code-to-cloud" security context for AI-generated applications.
- [Introducing Agent Sandbox on GKE](<https://docs.cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/machine-learning/agent-sandbox>): A new security boundary for Kubernetes that isolates AI agents, ensuring they can execute complex tasks without compromising the host environment.
- [Gemini Cloud Assist at Next '26](<https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-development/gemini-cloud-assist-at-next26>): The AI assistant for cloud operations now supports automated incident response and proactive cost optimization for agentic workloads.
- [Introducing Spend Caps and AI Cost Visibility](<https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/cost-management/introducing-spend-caps-ai-cost-visibility-next26>): New financial governance tools allow teams to set hard limits on AI spend and gain granular visibility into the cost of running autonomous agents.
- [Gemini Embedding 2 is Generally Available](<https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-embedding-2-generally-available>): The second-generation embedding model delivers significantly better retrieval performance for RAG and long-context agentic reasoning.
- [Announcing Google's Official Skills Repository](<https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/level-up-your-agents-announcing-googles-official-skills-repository>): A curated library of pre-built "skills" (tool definitions and prompt templates) that developers can use to quickly expand agent capabilities.
- [Eighth-generation TPU for the agentic era](<https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/infrastructure-and-cloud/google-cloud/eighth-generation-tpu-agentic-era>): Google unveils TPU v8, a dual-chip family featuring the TPU 8t for massive training and the TPU 8i for inference, offering an 80% improvement in performance per dollar.
- [Next '26 Day 1 Recap](<https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/google-cloud-next/next26-day-1-recap>): A comprehensive overview of the shift from AI pilots to full-scale enterprise production with Gemini Enterprise.
- [Welcome to Google Cloud Next '26](<https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/google-cloud-next/welcome-to-google-cloud-next26>): The opening keynote emphasizes the "Agentic Era" and Google's commitment to providing a full-stack solution for autonomous enterprise AI.