Cloud and AI news, Nov 11: Google Gemini Decisions API

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Google's Gemini API now offers gemini-decision-1, which returns calibrated decisions across text, images, audio, video and PDFs. Plus BigQuery project caps, GKE capacity buffers, Managed Spark runtime and AWS Emulator, in Wednesday's cloud updates.

It covers binary, categorical and rubric decisions, and the new Decisions API is generally available.

Over at Google Cloud, BigQuery now lets you cap slots and concurrency per project and route assignments by user or service account.

GKE capacity buffers use active and standby buffers to pre-provision compute capacity on Standard and Autopilot clusters.

Managed Service for Apache Spark adds a new runtime with Spark 4.2.0, Java 25 and Python 3.13, and batches now default to the premium tier.

From AWS, the new Emulator runs SDK and CLI calls locally or in CI with no AWS account and no service fee.

So, that's Wednesday. A busy stretch for Google Cloud, from BigQuery cost controls to GKE capacity and a new Spark runtime.

Follow for tomorrow's updates. The full list is at cloud changelog dot com.