Brief, mostly facts

Google announces Agent Compute Engine for microVM agent runs

The service already runs Gemini agents, and customer preview is coming in the months ahead. Expanded Gemini for business agent governance also comes with the launch.

Read the source at cloud.google.com

What the research found

Primary Google Cloud source for Agent Compute Engine: microVM service already running Gemini, preview in coming months, plus expanded Gemini for business governance; duplicate-level overlap with #4757.

Claims and how well the evidence supports them

Agent Compute Engine already powers Gemini and enters preview in the coming months 98%
It uses copy-on-write memory sharing and checkpoint/restore to pause idle microVMs 99%
Gemini for business agent governance is extended to agents wherever they run 98%

Evidence

cloud.google.com https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/ai-infrastructure/introducing-agent-compute-engine-and-expanded-agent-governance

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