Google Cloud Next 2025 — all the day two news and updates as it happens

Welcome to our live coverage of Google Cloud Next 2025.

We're live at the Mandalay Bay resort in Las Vegas, and all set for the second day of what is already a conference packed with Google's latest cloud and AI news.

The event kicked off yesterday with a keynote hosted by Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian, the latter of whom we'll be hearing from first thing this morning, before the developer keynote later today - so stay tuned for all the latest news!

Good morning from sunny Las Vegas! We're here for Google Cloud Next, and after a slighted delayed arrival into the city last night, are busy getting ready for the event kicking off tomorrow.

If you'd like a reminder of everything announced at last year's event, you can revisit our live blog here.

Before the conference kicks off tomorrow, we've been invited for a VIP press conference at an undisclosed location in Las Vegas...

Will we be allowed to report on it? What will it be about? Is this just a big AI prank? Stay tuned...

Well, that was interesting - we were whisked off to the famous Las Vegas Sphere, for a look at how Google Cloud worked to help prepare the movie classic The Wizard of Oz for the venue, launching on August 28.

It's fair to say it will be a spectacular show, with the original movie expanded, using AI content generation, to spread across the 16K LED screen at the Sphere.

The event was introduced by Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who welcomed us to the show, and outlined the scale of the technology being used.

Make no mistake - seeing a 75-year-old film, originally filmed in a rectangular format, expanded and spread across the screen, is pretty spectacular...

The event then wrapped up with a discussion between Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian and Jim Dolan, CEO of Sphere Entertainment Co, covering how the partnership came about, and their hopes for AI in the future.

Kurian then took to the stage solo to welcome us to Google Cloud Next 25.

That should be that for today - but tune in tomorrow for the first official day of the conference, with press Q&As and keynotes to come!

Good morning and welcome to the first day of Google Cloud Next!

After last night's magical Sphere experience, we're not sure how Google could possibly top that - but if anyone can, they can - and we are in Vegas after all...

We're off for breakfast and caffeine, before the keynote starts at 9am PST.

We're en route to the keynote now - as you might expect, it's pretty busy...

We're in and seated! As per Vegas conference rules, we're being blasted with upbeat techno - accompanied with strange and fantastic animated scenes generated by Google's Veo2 model...

Brass instruments floating over the Las Vegas strip and the Grand Canyon? It's amazing what AI can do...

Here we go - the lights go down and it's time for an intro video, again showing some...interesting visuals generated by Veo 2.

Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian takes to the stage.

"The future is being built by all of us," he notes, saying Google Cloud has shipped over 3,000 improvements and updates in the past year alone.

"Google's AI momentum is exciting," he adds, outlining huge adavnces in adoption of Gemini, Imagen, Veo and the company's other AI tools.

Our first special guest - Sundar Pichai, CEO of parent company Alphabet.

He talks us through the Sphere/Wizard of Oz collaboration we saw last night, as an example of what technology can do to show what is possible.

"With Google Cloud, we see AI as the most important way we can help advance your mission - the opportunity with AI is as big as it gets," he notes.

Pichai adds that Alphabet is ramping up investment in AI infrastructure - and reveals the first news of the day - Google is making its Cloud Wide Area Network open to businesses across the globe.

That's not all - Pichai unveils Ironwood, the company's next-generation TPU.

The seventh-gen hardware will help power the next generation of AI computing, allowing for more analysis and inference like never before.

Moving quickly on - Pichai outlines the success of Gemini 2.5 Pro, which he says is streaking ahead of the competition.

He shows off a couple of examples of why Gemini 2.5 is a "significant leap" over its rivals, including simualting a Rubiks cube - but also a massive simulation of the Earth's magentic field, showing off the huge potential of the model.

Pichai reveals Gemini 2.5 Pro is now available for everyone in AI Studio, Vertex AI, and the Gemini app.

There's also the release of Gemini 2.5 Flash, offering even more access to the platform.

Pichai notes Gemini is helping power a wide range of tools, such as NotebookLM, used by over a million businesses.

There's also a mention for Veo 2, which is being used by advertising and marketing agencies across the world, Pichai says.

We're then treated to a video showing how McDonald's is using Google's AI tools, using real-time data to improve performance and boost the overall restaurant experience - tasty stuff.

Kurian returns to the stage, highlighting why customers want to work with Google Cloud.

The company's AI-optimized platform is a major selling point, he adds, with the ability to build new agents that offer more help than ever before.

We welcome Amin Vahdat, VP and GM, ML, Systems and Cloud AI, to the stage, to talk about hardware.

He's joined on stage by an actual Ironwood TPU, noting how it can deal with even the most demanding AI workloads.

Ironwood supports up to 42.5 Exaflops, well beyond even the biggest supercomputers around today.

This will be backed up by Nvidia GB200 Blackwell chip-powered hardware - and Google will also offer Vera Rubin GPUS on Google Cloud.

There's also a new cloud and rapid storage options for greater throughput and latency.

Vahdat also runs through a host of new software announcements, including boosts for GKE Inference Gateway, Pathways on Google Cloud, and vLLM to TPU, giving easy TPU inference on a familiar library.

"We're truly seeing tremendous momentum," Vahdat notes, with Google helping power AI unicorns across the globe, as well as major customer usage across a wide variety of industries.

Google Distributed Cloud also gets an upgrade, with new Gemini tools allowing Google Distributed Cloud to run locally in air-gapped and connected envrionments.

A quick video from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is up next, highlighting the partnership between the two.

"No company is better at every sungle layer of computing than Google and Google Cloud," he notes.

Vahdat moves on to Google Workspace, which is getting a major boost from Gemini, which is now included in all subscriptions.

A new "Help me analyze" tool is coming to Google Sheets, along with "Audio overviews in Docs", and Google Workspace Flows, to help automate work with agents in the loop.

Imagen 3 is next up, now offering greater image generation than ever, along with voice-generation tool Chirp 3.

Vahdat announced Lyria is now available on Google Cloud, which can create music and other audio from just 10 second of input.

Veo 2 is also much more powerful than ever, offering first and last shot control, more camera angles, extra inpainting and outpainting tools, and much more.

All together, Vahdat says Google is, "the only company that offers generated media models across all modalities".

After that bombardment of information, it's time for a demo of just what Vertex AI can do.

To create a teaser video for the Google Cloud Next 25 closing party, Veo 2 is used to create hyper-realistic video input, including different angles, approaches and even audience members.

Kurian returns, and it's time to talk about Vertex AI.

AI models are being used in the physical world too, he notes, highlighting work done in robotics by Samsung and DeepMind.

Vertex allows users to discover, customize and deploy the best models for your business, he notes, introducing a customer example from Intuit, who used AI to help even the most complex tax filings a breeze.

Tens of thousands of companies are using Vertex to find the best models, Kurian notes - with use cases from patient healthcare to energy management.

Agents are never far away, with the tools now able to be easily built on Vertex, connecting to a number of top third-party partners.

Next up, Kurian wants to talk more about agents.

The company is already working with the likes of Salesforce, whose CEO Marc Benioff tells us via video how its Agentforce platform is a key ally for Google Cloud.

Google Cloud will now let users build and manage multi-agent systems, Kurian reveals.

The company's new Agentspace platform will let users scale adoption and accelerate deployment, wth a new Agent Development Kit simplifying the building of multi-agent systems - powered by Gemini, of course.

There's also a new Agent2Agent protocol to let agents talk to each other, regardless of what model they were built on.

We're now seeing how Agentspace works in action, with a demo showing off how agents can be used to automate everyday tasks.

Agentspace is now integrated into the Chrome browser, Kurian reveals, meaning you can search company data directly within your browser.

We're going even more in=depth on agents now, taking a look at several key areas where the technology in making a difference.

From customer agents built with Vertex AI Search used by Reddit Answers, to medical apps finding patient histories, to retail companies delivering personalized recommendations, the potential seems massive.

Next are some new offerings to improve Agents via Customer Engagement Suite, including streaming video support, new voices, and AI assistance to build agents.

We then see a demo of these new tools in action, helping get a customer the items they need to complete a garden, providing custom recommendations via live video in real time.

Industry agents are also a key use case, no matter how specific.

Wendys, Mercedes-Benz and The Home Depot are among the companies using Google Cloud technology to make their agents more helpful and intuitive.

Creative Agents are another key area, augmenting creative teams to allow content production at scale, or reimagining existing content.

We're once again looking at the Wizard of Oz Sphere experience, which used Google AI, including Veo 2, to turn the 1939 film into a fully-immsersive entertainment experience in super-fast time.

Agencies across the world are using Google's models to help create ads, improve localization, and reduce production times across the board.

Google seems very keen to ensure that models are working alongside human workers to be creative, rather than completely replace...

Data agents are also set to be a major boost for customers, taking lots of the heavy lifting and time-intensive tasks away from busy workers.

The likes of Mattel are working with Google Cloud to bring together customer feedback to improve data collection, collecting sentiment in real time to identify trends quicker than ever.

Google's BigQuery platform offers more reach than any competitor, the company says, bringing together structured and unstructured data to build the most useful agents for your business.

Next up, we're looking at Code Agents - as Gemini can be a highly effective partner using its Code Assist tools.

An enterprise-focused version is already proving a major success, helping companies around the globe.

Today new agents are being launched for Google Code Assist, including greater insights on the task being worked on, and more interactivity options.

Now, we're moving on to security, with Sandra Joyce, VP of Threat Intelligence.

She's straight in to Security Agents, with new critical cyberdefenses on offer for users now thanks to Google Threat Intelligence, Google Security Operations, Cloud Security Command Center, and Mandiant services.

New Malware Analysis and Alert Triage security agents are being announced today, giving customers even more tools to spot threats before they do serious damage.

A big one - Google Unified Security is a new converged security solution bringing together all of the company's tools and features.

We're treated to a demo of the new platform - named GUS for short - can track all of a company's workflows, combined with the latest threat intelligence, to triage the incident, create an automated response and shut down affected systems - all in a much shorter time than previously possible.

GUS looks set to revolutionize how companies ensure they stay protected, offering real-time advice and recommendations defined to even the smallest threats...

We're nearly at the end, and Kurian returns to the stage to wrap things up.

"We're delivering an amazing stream of new innovations, and making it easy to integrate those innovations into your existing technology landscapes," he concludes.

"What an amazing time for all of us to experience and work with these technology advances."

"We are honoured to be building this new way to cloud, with all of you."

And that's a wrap! We're off to digest all of the mountain of new announcements made in that keynote, so stay tuned to TechRadar Pro for write-ups of the biggest announcements coming soon.

We've got our heads around some of the news from this morning, so if you missed it - here's some of the biggest announcements...

Google Unified Security brings the power of AI to your security suite

The company has unveiled Google Unified Security, a new unified security platform designed to take the stress out of keeping your business safe from the latest threats.

Google Unified Security, affectionately known as GUS, promises a major step forward in threat detection and mitigation, and is outfitted with the company's latest Threat Intelligence, AI tools and services to keep users safe.

Google unveils new security AI agents to keep your business safe from the latest threats

Part of the new Google Unified Security platform, the company revealed two new AI security agents.

First is an Alert Triage agent in Google Security Operations which is able to carry out dynamic investigations on behalf of users, reducing the workload of analysts who otherwise are triaging and investigating hundreds of alerts per day.

The other new addition is a Malware Analysis agent, part of Google Threat Intelligence, which can investigate whether code is safe or harmful. It will also have the ability to create and execute scripts for deobfuscation, before summarizing its work and offering up a final verdict.

Google Cloud unveils Ironwood, its 7th Gen TPU to help boost AI performance and inference

Ironwood is the company's 7th-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU).

At its top-end Ironwood can scale up to 9,216 chips per pod, for a total of 42.5 exaflops - more than 24x the compute power of El Capitan, the world's current largest supercomputer.

Each individual chip offers peak compute of 4,614 TFLOPs, what the company says is a huge leap forward in capacity and capability.

We also heard from Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai at the keynote, who reaffirmed the company's plans to spend big on infrastructure and technology going forward.

"The opportunity with AI is as big as it gets" - Google CEO Sundar Pichai pledges $75 billion cloud, AI spending spree

And that's a wrap on our live coverage from day one of Google Cloud Next 25 - it's been a busy day, so we're off to rest and recuperate, before heading back tomorrow!

Be sure to join us then, as we'll have plenty more exciting content and news from the show...

Good morning and welcome to day two of Google Cloud Next 25!

Yesterday was packed full of news and announcements, and we're expecting more of the same today.

First up, we have a media Q&A with Thomas Kurian and others, before the developer keynote later today, so stay tuned for all the news from those events and more!