Google Cloud has made the Anthropic-managed deployment option for Claude generally available alongside its Google-managed path. It keeps Google Cloud billing, IAM and audit logging while putting Anthropic in the data-processor role and exposing day-zero Claude platform features including Managed Agents beta, skills and code execution.
Why it matters: Claude buyers on Google Cloud now have an explicit contractual and control-plane choice: faster access to Anthropic-native features under Anthropic terms, or Google-managed controls such as data residency and customer-managed encryption keys. The processor…
Google released new Deep Research and Deep Research Max agents built with Gemini 3.1 Pro. Through the Interactions API they can combine web search, file inputs, remote MCP servers, code execution and custom stores, stream progress, accept plan edits and generate inline charts or infographics.
Why it matters: Deep research is becoming a composable backend for professional workflows rather than a consumer report button. The valuable capability is controlled retrieval across public and proprietary evidence with a traceable plan and structured output.
Google introduced Agentic Vision in Gemini 3 Flash, allowing the model to write and run code that crops, zooms, rotates, annotates, or otherwise transforms an image while reasoning about it. The iterative visual loop was exposed through the Gemini API and Google AI Studio for tasks such as document inspection, object localization, and chart analysis.
Why it matters: Vision systems gained an explicit inspect-transform-reinspect loop, reducing the need to answer from a single compressed view of a complex image.
Anthropic introduced Agent Skills: directories containing metadata, instructions, scripts and resources that Claude can discover and load only when relevant to a task.
Why it matters: Reusable procedural knowledge can specialize a general agent without repeating large prompts or building a separate bespoke agent for every workflow.