Join us for Gemini at Work, a digital event on September 24 at 9am PT, featuring industry leaders from Snap, Bosch, and Randstad, as well as Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian, who will discuss how AI is reshaping business globally. The event will explore AI's influence on customer engagement and code development, with insights from companies such as Box on integrating Gemini for intelligent solutions.

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Google is announcing the general availability of certificate-based access in its Identity and Access Management portfolio to help protect organizations from stolen credentials, cookie theft, and accidental credential loss. This feature uses mutual TLS to ensure that user credentials are bound to a device certificate before authorizing access to cloud resources. Certificate-based access requires X.509 certificates as device identifiers and verifies devices with user context for every access request.

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Companies can harness large language models (LLMs) to automate SQL query generation, streamlining data analysis workflows. This integration can be achieved by combining LLMs with Confluent and Vertex AI to create a powerful, end-to-end solution for real-time data processing and insights. This solution can be useful for accelerated data exploration and generating SQL queries based on natural language.

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Google has committed to helping reduce 1 gigaton of carbon equivalent emissions annually by 2030 and achieving net-zero emissions across its operations and value chains by 2030. The company has introduced the Google for Startups Accelerator in Europe-Climate Change, a 10-week program for high-potential startups leveraging technology to combat climate change. The program is equity-free and hybrid, with a diverse cohort of startups from Europe and Israel.

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Mandiant Managed Defense identified a cyber espionage group, UNC2970, suspected to have a North Korea nexus in June 2024. The group targets victims under the guise of job openings, masquerading as a recruiter for prominent companies. They engage with victims over email and WhatsApp and share a malicious archive containing a PDF file that can only be opened with a trojanized version.

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50Hertz, part of the Elia Group, operates the electricity transmission system in the north and east of Germany, supplying 18 million people with electricity 24/7. The company aims to create the grid of the future using state-of-the-art technologies. By 2025, more than a third of the world's electricity is predicted to come from renewables.

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GKE hosts and manages the Ray Operator, allowing users to create Ray Clusters and run Ray applications. The GKE Ray Operator offers optional features for effective logging and metrics, automatically capturing and storing Ray logs in Cloud Logging and Cloud Monitoring.

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Spanner Graph offers a unified solution that integrates full-text search and graph databases, allowing organizations to efficiently extract valuable insights from complex relationships and unstructured data.

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Conversational Analytics, a feature of Looker, is now in preview. It uses Google AI's Gemini to provide data analysts with easy access to data, allowing them to generate reports and visualizations without coding. The feature connects seamlessly to BigQuery and Google Sheets, enabling users to ask questions of their data and receive instant visual answers.

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Google Cloud encourages CISOs to collaborate with industry organizations, nonprofits, research and development communities, and governments to advance cyber security. This includes partnerships with Information Security and Analysis Centers (ISACs) to share information on emerging threats and technical mitigations.

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