The Announcement Everyone Slept On at Google Cloud Next '26: The Cross-Cloud Lakehouse

Google Cloud Next '26 dropped a lot of flashy headlines — eighth-gen TPUs, Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, AI-powered security ops. But the announcement I keep coming back to is quieter, more infrastructural, and arguably more consequential for everyday developers: the **Cross-Cloud Lakehouse . Opening Keynote replay — the Agentic Data Cloud segment starts around the 45-minute mark. Look for Karthik Narain on stage. A Little Context If you watched the Day 1 keynote, you heard Google Cloud CPO