Everyone heading into Google Cloud Next this week is bracing for another wave of artificial intelligence announcements. More Gemini. More agents. More benchmarks. More on-stage demos that look great in a keynote and disappear into a slide deck by Friday. That framing is going to age badly. What Google is actually preparing to put on […] The post Google Cloud Next 2026 preview: The real story isn’t AI — it’s the control plane appeared first on SiliconANGLE .