What's New With Google Data Cloud
Google, Friday, October 9th, 2026
Google's data cloud roundup covers GA of Data Agent Kit and Spanner Omni plus AlloyDB PostgreSQL for agents and BM25 hybrid search.
Google Cloud's running roundup of data analytics, database and BI news for October 5-9 leads with general availability of Data Agent Kit, which offers free MCP tools and agent skills connecting more than 15 Google Data Cloud services to coding agents.
Supported environments include VS Code, Antigravity, Cursor, Claude Code and Codex, while the newly available Spanner Omni brings Spanner's distributed SQL, graph, vector and key-value capabilities to on-premises, other clouds and laptops.
AlloyDB also added PostgreSQL for agents and native BM25 ranking in preview for hybrid search.