Google Cloud Next 2025 — all the day one news and updates as it happens

Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of Google Cloud Next 2025!

We're live in Las Vegas and ready for the first day of a conference set to be packed with Google's latest cloud and AI news.

The event kicks off this morning with a keynote hosted by Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian, who will be joined on stage by a host of guests, doubtless with much to tell us, so stay tuned for all the details as it happens!

Good morning from sunny Las Vegas! We're here for Google Cloud Next, and after a slighted delayed arrival into the city last night, are busy getting ready for the event kicking off tomorrow.

If you'd like a reminder of everything announced at last year's event, you can revisit our live blog here.

Before the conference kicks off tomorrow, we've been invited for a VIP press conference at an undisclosed location in Las Vegas...

Will we be allowed to report on it? What will it be about? Is this just a big AI prank? Stay tuned...

Well, that was interesting - we were whisked off to the famous Las Vegas Sphere, for a look at how Google Cloud worked to help prepare the movie classic The Wizard of Oz for the venue, launching on August 28.

It's fair to say it will be a spectacular show, with the original movie expanded, using AI content generation, to spread across the 16K LED screen at the Sphere.

The event was introduced by Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who welcomed us to the show, and outlined the scale of the technology being used.

Make no mistake - seeing a 75-year-old film, originally filmed in a rectangular format, expanded and spread across the screen, is pretty spectacular...

The event then wrapped up with a discussion between Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian and Jim Dolan, CEO of Sphere Entertainment Co, covering how the partnership came about, and their hopes for AI in the future.

Kurian then took to the stage solo to welcome us to Google Cloud Next 25.

That should be that for today - but tune in tomorrow for the first official day of the conference, with press Q&As and keynotes to come!

Good morning and welcome to the first day of Google Cloud Next!

After last night's magical Sphere experience, we're not sure how Google could possibly top that - but if anyone can, they can - and we are in Vegas after all...

We're off for breakfast and caffeine, before the keynote starts at 9am PST.