The Quiet Revolution at Google Cloud Next '26: Your Database Can Talk to Your AI Agent — No Bridge Required published

This is a submission for the Google Cloud NEXT Writing Challenge Everyone at Google Cloud Next '26 is talking about Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. The flashy keynote demo, the "era of the agent is here" declaration, the snowboarder analyzing his own tricks with AI. I get it. It's a great story. But buried in the 260-announcement list is something that, for developers building real AI applications, might matter more day-to-day: Google Cloud just made it trivially easy to connect AI agents dire