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Agent Runtime: ADK telemetry metrics

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Agents deployed to Agent Runtime with Agent Development Kit (ADK) 2.6.0 or later can emit gen_ai application metrics that follow OpenTelemetry's generative AI semantic conventions. Set the GOOGLE_CLOUD_AGENT_ENGINE_ENABLE_TELEMETRY environment variable to export these metrics to Cloud Monitoring as user-defined metrics, alongside agent traces and logs.

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Also shipped Aug 13, 2026Google Cloud in August 2026 →

SendGrid connector (Beta)

The SendGrid connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta . Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page. The connector ingests the SendGrid subuser directory and IP access-management activity for the parent account and each subuser into Databricks.

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CodeMender CLI: Sandbox enabled by default

This release updates the CodeMender CLI default behavior: Sandbox enabled by default : The CLI now runs commands inside the process-level sandbox by default to protect your workstation. You can disable the sandbox in your config.yaml , by passing --sandbox=false to CLI commands, or bypass it using the --unrestricted flag.

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Monitor semantic governance policies with built-in metrics (Preview)

Built-in Cloud Monitoring metrics for the semantic governance policy engine are available in Preview. You can now observe request throughput, evaluation counts, latencies, verdict distribution ( ALLOW versus DENY ), and LLM token consumption for the policy engine directly in Metrics Explorer , query them through the Cloud Monitoring v3 API and PromQL, and...

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AlphaFold 3 is generally available

AlphaFold 3 is now generally available (GA) and available for approved users for commercial research use. AlphaFold 3 Google DeepMind's and Isomorphic Labs' deep learning model to predict the 3D structures and interactions of proteins, DNA, RNA, ligands, and ions. For more information, see AlphaFold 3 .

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CodeMender updates (v0.4.0): Model support

This release introduces updates to CodeMender: Gemini 3 Flash removal : Gemini 3 Flash ( gemini-3-flash-preview ) is no longer supported as a model backend for CodeMender. CodeMender supports Gemini 3.5 Flash (default) and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview. For more information, see Specifying the model .

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Process-level sandboxing and auto-updates (Preview)

This release introduces process-level sandboxing, automatic update checks, and other improvements to the CodeMender CLI (Preview): Process-level sandboxing : To safeguard your workstation against unintended file modifications or unexpected tool side effects, you can now execute all agent-proposed tools (such as compiling code, running tests, or executing...

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GLM 5.2 is available in Public Preview

GLM 5.2 from Z.ai is available as a fully managed model (MaaS) in Model Garden. The model targets long-horizon agentic and coding tasks and supports a 1M-token context window. For more information, see GLM 5.2 .

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