Congrats to the Google Cloud NEXT '26 Writing Challenge Winners!

The results are in! We are thrilled to announce the winners of the Google Cloud NEXT '26 Writing Challenge . Your submissions covered a lot of ground: from building multi-step AI agents with Google ADK in a single day, to questioning what Google's 75% AI-generated code statistic actually means for developers, to exploring whether agents are the new microservices. We saw posts on GKE updates, cross-cloud data access, agentic compliance tooling, and even a beginner's honest account of navigating t