Google Cloud Next 2026 Preview: The Real Story Isn't AI — It's the Control Plane

Google Cloud Next 2026 preview: The real story isn't AI — it's the control plane

Everyone heading into Google Cloud Next this week is bracing for another wave of artificial intelligence announcements. More Gemini. More agents. More benchmarks. More onstage demos that look great in a keynote and disappear into a slide deck by Friday. That framing is going to age badly. What Google is actually preparing to put on […] The post Google Cloud Next 2026 preview: The real story isn’t AI — it’s the control plane appeared first on Sil…

Google Cloud Next 2026: What To Expect With Agentic AI as a Major Theme

A growing number of businesses are interested in adopting agentic artificial intelligence to increase efficiency and supercharge their services.  The most common use cases for deploying AI agents across industries has been in customer service and experience (49%), marketing (46%), security operations and cybersecurity (46%) and IT support (45%), according to a 2025 Google Cloud survey. And 52% of executives who say that their organizations use g…