GCP Release Notes: March 06, 2026

BigQuery

Feature

You can create a remote model based on the Vertex AI gemini-embedding-001 model, or a remote model based on an open embedding model from Vertex Model Garden or Hugging Face that is deployed to Vertex AI.

You can then use the AI.GENERATE_EMBEDDING function with these remote models to generate embeddings. You can also use the AI.EMBED function directly with the gemini-embedding-001 model endpoint.

These features are generally available (GA).

Feature

You can now use the Pipelines & Connections page to streamline your data integration tasks by using guided, BigQuery-specific configuration workflows for services like BigQuery Data Transfer Service, Datastream, and Pub/Sub.

This feature is in Preview.

Bigtable

Feature

Bigtable tools in the Agent Development Kit (ADK) are generally available (GA). With these tools, you can build AI agents that interact with Bigtable to discover metadata about Bigtable tables and instances and execute LLM-powered SQL queries.

Cloud Storage

Feature

You can now identify publicly accessible objects (preview) by using Storage Insights datasets. The object metadata schema includes fields that provide the public access status of your objects, which lets you understand, organize, and manage publicly accessible objects at scale.

Gemini

Other

Bug fixes in VS Code

Various bug fixes and minor product enhancements.

Other

Bug fixes in IntelliJ

Various bug fixes and minor product enhancements.

Looker Studio

Feature

Correction: CSV connector enhancement available to all users

Enhancements to the CSV connector user interface are available to all Looker Studio users. This feature was previously announced as being available only to Looker Studio Pro users.

Oracle Database@Google Cloud

Feature

For Exadata Database Service and Autonomous Database Service, Oracle Database@Google Cloud supports the europe-west8-b-r1 (Milan, Italy) region.

For a list of supported locations, see Supported regions and zones.

Source: Google Cloud Platform