A Balakrishnan

Keeping customers in the centre of everything I do, building teams to go from good to great, being fit and healthy and try to be the family man on weekends.

[Google Cloud @googlecloud]

We're moving AI from a solo conversation to a persistent, shared team asset with projects in Gemini Enterprise.

Projects is a dynamic, highly collaborative workspace where human experts and agents actively co-create side-by-side → https://t.co/cKFltNbPY6

[A Balakrishnan @ba126133]

@palkisu Congratulations @palkisu and all the best on this new sojourn !

[Google Cloud @googlecloud]

Reliance transforms retail in India with a Shopping Agent.

Customers simply type “Plan a birthday party,” and the agent guides their journey and assembles their cart while Gemini-powered catalog enrichment supports by analyzing millions of images in minutes ↓

[Thomas Kurian @ThomasOrTK]

Nano Banana 2 and Nano Banana Pro are now generally available via Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. Backed by enterprise-grade infrastructure and security, these models let you integrate high-quality image generation and editing capabilities directly into your applications and workflows.

[Thomas Kurian @ThomasOrTK]

Today we’re introducing Google AI Threat Defense - a comprehensive AI-powered cybersecurity solution designed to help continuously monitor for and stop AI-powered threats before they can impact your business. Here’s how it works:

1. AI Threat Defense uses our cybersecurity platform @wiz_io to scan and prioritize what applications and systems have the highest security risk.
2. Gemini and other frontier AI models can then autonomously perform continual deep scanning of your applications - starting with those at the highest risk - to identify security vulnerabilities.
3. The capabilities of CodeMender - a new software repair agent - are then used to verify and accelerate the patching of vulnerabilities.
4. And our @wiz_io autonomous agents continuously test your systems to find unknown vulnerabilities before adversaries do so that you can remediate them before you are attacked.

While other model providers focus on using AI to find and flag vulnerabilities, Google AI Threat Defense actively prioritizes your most critical real-world risks and accelerates their remediation using a variety of models since no single model finds a superset of the vulnerabilities found by all other models.

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

SynthID has already watermarked over 100 billion pieces of content, but transparency is a team sport.

That’s why we’re partnering with @OpenAI, @ElevenLabs and Kakao to add SynthID watermarking to their models – accelerating the industry-wide momentum we started with @NVIDIA.

[Josh Woodward @joshwoodward]

A top feature request is rolling out in @NotebookLM: Google Drive files will now automatically sync! 🔄

We're actively rolling this out, starting with 10% today and ramping up soon.

[Google Cloud @googlecloud]

AI is rewriting the rules of cybersecurity. That's why we're launching Google AI Threat Defense today.

Learn more about this automated security system designed to continuously monitor for and stop AI-powered threats before they can impact your business → https://t.co/6ZO4xeEMQc

[Google Cloud @googlecloud]

DYK? With the Agent Designer in Gemini Enterprise, you can inspect, test, and approve every step of a workflow before it ever runs—ensuring enterprise transparency and trust.

You can also seamlessly integrate human-in-the-loop checkpoints. Learn more → https://t.co/cXIcGmwm48

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

Project Genie 🤝 @GoogleMaps Street View

You can now take real U.S. places and transform them into new, interactive worlds. 🌍

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

Gemini 3.5 Flash has landed.

[Google AI @GoogleAI]

I/O is less than 3 weeks away 🤯 We want YOU to help us create the countdown that will play before the keynote begins.

Using @GoogleAIStudio or Canvas in @GeminiApp vibe code your most creative countdown concept and send it to us by May 6th.

The only rule is that your build has to feature a large number between 1 and 10. Check the replies in this thread for sample projects to draw inspiration from or remix.

You can find more info and directions on how to submit your builds here: https://t.co/CusPvfKIC3

[Thomas Kurian @ThomasOrTK]

Today we broke ground on our Google AI hub in India. This milestone marks a significant step in our mission to help fuel India's #ViksitBharat2047 vision, and represents a cornerstone of our commitment to the local startup ecosystem and community.

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

Extraordinary progress with UCP!

[Google Cloud Tech @GoogleCloudTech]

The workflow for building an agent on Vertex AI Agent Engine:

1. Set up the environment
2. Develop an agent
3. Deploy the agent
4. Use the agent
5. Manage the deployed agent

Explore the Vertex AI Agent Engine resources to help you start building today → https://t.co/gs3ai1T3ET

[Google AI @GoogleAI]

Here’s a recap of everything we released this week:

— Gemini 3.1 Flash Live, delivering our highest-quality audio experience yet with improved reasoning and latency for more natural voice interactions

— An update to @GeminiApp on desktop that enables you to seamlessly transition from other AI apps by importing your preferences and chat history in just a few clicks

— Lyria 3 Pro, supporting high-fidelity music tracks up to 3 minutes long with the ability to prompt for structural elements like intros, verses, and bridges

— A suite of new Gemini features on Google TV, such as narrated deep dives on educational topics and real-time sports overviews

— Google Translate’s Live translate with headphones, now on iOS and expanding to more countries for real-time translation across 70+ languages

— A new research partnership between @GoogleDeepMind and Agile Robots to develop the next generation of helpful robots

[Google Cloud @googlecloud]

5 essential pillars to help move your AI use cases from whiteboard to global scale:
1. Agentic automation
2. Production-grade deployment
3. Proactive intelligence
4. Sovereign infrastructure
5. A secure data foundation

A playbook for AI success → https://t.co/IhmKaCZUt1

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

From coding to canvas @StitchbyGoogle is an experiment from Google Labs that turns natural language into UI designs.

"vibe designing" means you can iterate, collab, and refine your vision just by replying to the AI to make changes on the fly.

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

Some helpful updates from across Google this week, lots more to come! 🧵

@NotebookLM is introducing Cinematic Video Overviews for Ultra users in English.

Distill complex information into amazing visual deep dives - take a look 👇

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

Read more here: https://t.co/1SDoYVfCTY