AI Highlights from Google’s Cloud Next Conference

At its Cloud Next conference, Google introduced major AI advancements, including the powerful new Ironwood chip—potentially surpassing the world’s fastest supercomputers—and Gemini 2.5 Flash, a faster, lightweight version of its top model. The new Agent2Agent protocol allows AI systems from different vendors to collaborate, while enhanced media tools enable video creation, image editing, text-to-music generation, and voice cloning, all seamlessly integrated into Google Workspace.