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Google Cloud Blog19 May 2026

What Google I/O '26 means for developing agents on Google Cloud

At Google I/O, we introduced a unified development toolkit featuring Antigravity 2.0 and the Managed Agents API, giving developers better ways to build locally and deploy securely to the cloud on a shared protocol layer. In this blog, we’re going to show you how Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and the new developer tools shared at I/O fit together, unpack the spectrum of choice for building, and share what we’d actually try first. Following the evolution of Vertex AI into the Gemini Enterprise

AI & Machine LearningDevelopers & Practitioners

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Google Cloud Blog19 May 2026

The future of agentic development: Redefining the data practitioner lifecycle with Data Agent Kit

The modern software development landscape isn’t happening just on one surface — it’s happening across an entire ecosystem of agentic tools. Agents are being developed at an unprecedented scale, and these agents require direct access to enterprise data for context and grounding. However, the current tooling for building agents and managing data is heavily fragmented. This can make it difficult to access data, increasing security risks, and causing broken developer experiences that hinder innovati

AI & Machine LearningGoogle I/OData Analytics

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Google AI Blog19 May 2026