Google Cloud unveils Agent Compute Engine for AI agents
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The new compute service runs AI agents inside hardware-isolated microVMs and is already powering Google's own Gemini agents Google Cloud has a new home for AI agents, and it comes with locks on every door. The company unveiled Agent Compute Engine on October 22, 2026, at the AGNTCon + MCPCon events. It is a compute service built specifically for running AI agents at scale. At its core, Agent Compute Engine runs workloads inside hardware-isolated microVMs . Each one gets a dedicated guest kernel and root access. That isolation matters because agents do things.
Source: Crypto Briefing
