Agent Compute Engine and expanded agent governance
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Google has announced Agent Compute Engine, a purpose-built compute service for running autonomous AI agents, which already powers its Gemini agent for work tasks and will reach preview in coming months. It offers hardware-isolated microVMs that boot quickly, pause idle sessions via snapshots, and use Titanium hardware for security.