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Google Cloud Run Worker Pools hit general availability on April 14, 2026, shipping with Blackwell GPU support and CREMA, an open-source KEDA-based autoscaler for queue-driven workloads.

Mira Murati's startup expands its Google Cloud relationship with a non-exclusive multibillion-dollar deal centered on GB300 systems and reinforcement-learning workloads behind its Tinker fine-tuning API.

At Cloud Next 2026, Google overhauled its AI cloud stack: Vertex AI becomes the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, a new Agentic Data Cloud offers cross-cloud data access via Apache Iceberg, and the Virgo Network delivers 47 Pb/s to connect 134,000-chip training clusters.

AWS moved its cross-cloud private networking service to general availability on April 14, turning a preview into production and a bilateral deal into what analysts are calling a de facto standard.

The third Iceberg Summit in San Francisco brought 70+ sessions and announcements from Snowflake, Google, Dremio, Databricks, and AWS as the open table format's V3 specification reaches production readiness.

IBM Research, Red Hat, and Google Cloud donated llm-d, a Kubernetes-native LLM inference framework, to the CNCF as a sandbox project at KubeCon Europe 2026, backed by NVIDIA, CoreWeave, AMD, and other partners.

Google Cloud now accepts OTLP-format metrics in Cloud Monitoring and offers a fully managed OpenTelemetry Collector pipeline for GKE, joining a broader industry shift toward vendor-neutral observability driven by open standards.

Google completed its all-cash acquisition of cloud security firm Wiz on March 11, clearing regulatory reviews in seven jurisdictions and reshaping the competitive landscape for independent cybersecurity vendors.