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Agent Development Kit Hackathon: Winners and Highlights

🚀 The Agent Development Kit (ADK) Hackathon concluded with more than 10,400 participants from 62 countries, 477 submitted projects, and 1,500+ agents built. The competition emphasized multi-agent orchestration for automation, data analysis, customer service, and content generation, awarding SalesShortcut the Grand Prize. Regional winners included Energy Agent AI, Edu.AI, GreenOps, and Nexora-AI, and organizers pointed participants to ADK documentation and developer forums while announcing an upcoming GKE hackathon with over $50,000 in prizes.

Google Cloud: Monthly AI product and security update

🔔 This month Google Cloud expanded its AI stack across models, tooling, and security. Highlights include Gemini 2.5 Flash with native image generation and SynthID watermarking on Vertex AI, new Veo video models, the Gemini CLI, and a global Anthropic Claude endpoint. Google also published 101 gen‑AI blueprints, developer guidance for choosing tools, and security advances for agents and AI workloads.

What's New in Google Data Cloud: August Product Roundup

🔔 This Google Cloud roundup summarizes recent product milestones, GA launches, previews, and integrations across the data analytics, BI, and database portfolio. It highlights updates to BigQuery, Firestore, Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, and adjacent services aimed at easing ingestion, migration, and AI-driven operations. Notable items include MongoDB-compatible Firestore GA, PSC networking improvements for Database Migration Service, and a redesigned BigQuery data ingestion experience. The post also emphasizes resilience and DR enhancements such as immutable backups and Near Zero Downtime maintenance.

DLA Selects Google Public Sector for Cloud Modernization

☁️ Google Public Sector has been awarded a $48 million DLA Enterprise Platform contract to migrate the Defense Logistics Agency to a DoD‑accredited commercial cloud. The multi‑phased program will move key infrastructure and data to a modern, AI‑ready Google Cloud foundation and enable BigQuery, Looker, and Vertex AI analytics. Emphasizing secure‑by‑design infrastructure and Mandiant threat intelligence, the effort aims to reduce costs, improve resiliency, and accelerate AI‑driven logistics and transportation management.

Gemini Available On-Premises with Google Distributed Cloud

🚀 Gemini on Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) is now generally available for customers, bringing Google’s advanced Gemini models on‑premises with GA for air‑gapped deployments and a connected preview. The solution provides managed Gemini endpoints with zero‑touch updates, automatic load balancing and autoscaling, and integrates with Vertex AI and preview agents. It pairs Gemini 2.5 Flash and Pro with NVIDIA Hopper and Blackwell accelerators and includes audit logging, access controls, and support for Confidential Computing (Intel TDX and NVIDIA) to meet strict data residency, sovereignty, and compliance requirements.

GKE Turns Ten: New Pricing, Autopilot Enhancements

🎉 Google marks the tenth anniversary of Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) by simplifying pricing and expanding capabilities. Starting September 2025, GKE moves to a single paid tier, GKE Standard, which includes multi-cluster features such as Fleets, Teams, Config Management, and Policy Controller at no extra cost, with additional capabilities available à la carte. Google is also making Autopilot toggleable per cluster and per workload and promoting a container-optimized compute platform designed to increase efficiency and performance for AI and large-scale services.

Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Arrives on Vertex AI Preview

🖼️ Google announced native image generation and editing in Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, now available in preview on Vertex AI. The model delivers state-of-the-art capabilities including multi-image fusion, character and style consistency, and conversational editing to refine visuals via natural-language loops. Built-in SynthID watermarking supports responsible, transparent use. Developers and partners report promising integrations and low-latency performance for real-time editing workflows.

What’s New in Google Cloud: Releases, Previews, and News

🔔 Google Cloud published a consolidated roundup of product releases and previews from early July through Aug 22, 2025, covering GA launches, public previews, and platform enhancements. Highlights include Earth Engine in BigQuery (GA), Vertex AI embedding scaling, new GKE features for NUMA alignment and swap, expanded NodeConfig controls, and Cloud Run with GPUs. Customers should review the linked documentation, request preview access via account teams where needed, and plan upgrades or migrations accordingly.