Forbes April 23, 2025
Google Cloud Next 2025 offered insights into Google’s approach to the evolving landscape of modern work, with a particular emphasis on integrating AI, infrastructure and interoperability across the enterprise. The event’s announcements and demonstrations reflected a strategy to embed AI into daily workflows, aiming to enhance tool accessibility for employees and support organizational adaptation during ongoing digital transformation.
(Note: Google is an advisory client of my firm, Moor Insights & Strategy.)
AI As An Operating Layer
A prominent theme from the event was the shift of AI from an experimental feature toward a foundational layer within enterprise technology — and supporting enterprise workers’ everyday tasks. During the keynote, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian called...







