Oh, you want to do messaging directly within Spanner for scheduled work or streaming pulls of work? Spanner queues are here. And already in Spanner Omni. cloud.google.com/blog/produc…

Spanner Omni is officially GA. We untethered our distributed SQL engine from our infrastructure so you can run it on yours. Deploy mission-critical workloads on-prem, across multiple clouds, or straight to your laptop for local dev. Scale without boundaries. goo.gle/4z7UteJ

Sailesh Krishnamurthy is a VP of Engineering at @Google. He joins Matt Merrill to explore how databases are evolving for AI, from structured and unstructured data to search, agent-generated queries, schemas, and more. @saileshkrish softwareengineeringdaily.com…

Congrats Badrish !

Threat intel is a brutal database workload: constant ingestion, IOC lookups mid-incident, deep historical queries — all at once. @googlecloud published how we rebuilt our data layer on AlloyDB: 20x faster analytics, sub-second IOC lookups, 3.2x ingestion. Read the full story 🔗 cloud.google.com/blog/produc… @saileshkrish #Cybersecurity #GoogleCloud #AlloyDB #ThreatIntel #SOCRadar

The multi-model advantage for the agentic era: Spanner is a unified multi-model database that natively integrates relational, key-value, graph, full-text search, and vector search on a single, globally consistent engine. In the 2025 Gartner® Critical Capabilities for Cloud Database Management Systems for Operational Use Cases report, Google (Spanner) ranked #1 in the Lightweight Transactions Use Case for the second consecutive year—in our opinion, proving it is the most efficient engine for modern microservices and event-driven architectures. Learn more → goo.gle/4eSKClR

🚀 Introducing Gemini-SQL2, our breakthrough text-to-SQL capability powered by Gemini 3.1 Pro! We've achieved state-of-the-art results on the highly competitive BIRD benchmark, translating natural language into execution-ready SQL queries. 🧵👇

Thanks for all of the Antigravity feedback over the last couple of days, especially around the IDE. Our intention was never to remove the IDE support for developers, and we should have been clearer with that in the product from the beginning. We’ve made it clearer in 2.0 on how to connect to the IDE, fixed issues with opening the IDE on Windows machines, provided instructions to restore IDE settings & extensions, and more. New releases for the Antigravity IDE and Antigravity 2.0 have rolled out with these changes. We should have done better so we’re going to reset everyone’s Gemini quota for the week again.

Our version of holiday lights.

It was an incredible honor to host the legend @arrahman - a huge idol of mine - at @OpenAI today for a fireside chat and Q&A. Beyond being an iconic composer, he is also a true innovator—constantly pushing boundaries, from creating the VR film Le Musk to building a metahuman digital band with Secret Mountain. It was inspiring to hear his thoughts on how AI is reshaping creative expression, his recent projects at the intersection of technology and the arts, and his vision for the future of music and media. Really grateful for this unforgettable conversation!

Announcing The Stargate Project The Stargate Project is a new company which intends to invest $500 billion over the next four years building new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the United States. We will begin deploying $100 billion immediately. This infrastructure will secure American leadership in AI, create hundreds of thousands of American jobs, and generate massive economic benefit for the entire world. This project will not only support the re-industrialization of the United States but also provide a strategic capability to protect the national security of America and its allies. The initial equity funders in Stargate are SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, and MGX. SoftBank and OpenAI are the lead partners for Stargate, with SoftBank having financial responsibility and OpenAI having operational responsibility. Masayoshi Son will be the chairman. Arm, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Oracle, and OpenAI are the key initial technology partners. The buildout is currently underway, starting in Texas, and we are evaluating potential sites across the country for more campuses as we finalize definitive agreements. As part of Stargate, Oracle, NVIDIA, and OpenAI will closely collaborate to build and operate this computing system. This builds on a deep collaboration between OpenAI and NVIDIA going back to 2016 and a newer partnership between OpenAI and Oracle. This also builds on the existing OpenAI partnership with Microsoft. OpenAI will continue to increase its consumption of Azure as OpenAI continues its work with Microsoft with this additional compute to train leading models and deliver great products and services. All of us look forward to continuing to build and develop AI—and in particular AGI—for the benefit of all of humanity. We believe that this new step is critical on the path, and will enable creative people to figure out how to use AI to elevate humanity.

THREAD: THE MOST AMAZING COMEBACK IN CRICKET Cricket has seen many amazing comebacks, ranging from returns from injury and being sacked. But npthing beats a retired player being spotted in a crowd and being asked to play! It happened. July 25, 1i986. Lord's. #Repost

📢 I am recruiting PhD students for Fall 2025 @ Georgia Tech! If you are interested in topics related to DB + AI (multimodal & vector databases, data management support for ML, etc.), apply and mention my name in your application: gradapp.gatech.edu/apply/

I'm not at SOSP but this is brilliant news! @AishwaryaGanlat, Ram Alagappan and their students, @LuoStuart, @shreesha00, and Jiyu Hu received a Best Paper Award @sospconf for their work -- "LazyLog: A New Shared Log Abstraction for Low-Latency Applications" !! dassl-uiuc.github.io/pdfs/pa… Congratulations! @IllinoisCDS