TheCUBE's John Furrier and Alison Kosik conduct a day one keynote assessing the agent control plane battleground. during Google Cloud Next 2026.AI play_arrow

    The decisive layer in AI is still unclaimed: theCUBE’s Google Cloud Next day one keynote analysis

    The fight for the agent control plane is underway — and it might determine who controls enterprise artificial intelligence for the next decade. Google LLC came into Google Cloud Next 2026 with a clearer positioning for Gemini: less as a standalone model and more as a connective layer. The emphasis is ...


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      The agentic artificial intelligence era is forcing a reset in enterprise architecture. Agents that take action go well beyond analyzing data sitting in lakehouses. When agents operate on behalf of humans – continuously, at machine scale – they introduce requirements that most enterprises are not engineered for. The so-called “modern ...