Greetings from Sin City. I'm here at Google Cloud Next 25—where it's all AI, all the time. Google made so many announcements yesterday that it wouldn’t be useful to list them all, but here’s what’s most likely to impact how you spend your day.
In Google , Docs now supports audio overviews, Sheets adds AI-powered data analysis, and a new automation tool (Workspace Flows) lets users connect apps like Forms, Sheets, and Chat with Gemini and Gems. Flows enable AI-driven steps between tasks, unlocking more dynamic workflows across Workspace.
On the developer side, Google’s Gemini API introduced two key capabilities: live API for real-time, voice-based applications (audio in, audio out), and Veo 2 (Google’s video generation model) now available to all paying developers.
Google AI Studio also received a significant UI refresh. Gemini 2.5 Flash was teased, but details are still under wraps.
Enterprise AI took a step forward with , Google’s platform for building and deploying AI agents. It now offers native integrations with search, external data sources, and pre-built agents for tasks like deep research and idea generation. Customization is designed to be low-friction, using natural language prompts.
Supporting this, Google launched new developer tools:
- Agent Development Kit (ADK) — an open framework for agent building
- A2A Protocol — a new standard for agent-to-agent communication; they also adopted
- Agent Engine — a runtime environment to deploy agents built with any framework
Most notable for developers: Google now has its own text-to-app platform. lets users generate full-featured apps using natural language prompts — with live previews, editable code, visual UI selection, and streamlined deployment. Early reports suggest it’s fast, powerful, and a serious competitor to platforms like Bolt, Lovable, and v0.
These are just a few highlights. If you want to go deeper, you’ll find all the details plus links to the keynote .
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Shelly Palmer is the Professor of Advanced Media in Residence at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and CEO of The Palmer Group, a consulting practice that helps Fortune 500 companies with technology, media and marketing. Named he covers tech and business for , is a regular commentator on CNN and writes a popular . He's a , and the creator of the popular, free online course, . Follow or visit .
