Google unveils Agent Compute Engine, the hardware-isolated microVMs that run Gemini's agents

Announced Oct 22 at AGNTCon + MCPCon, it gives each agent its own fast-booting microVM with its own kernel and identity, pauses it while the agent is thinking or waiting on a human, and resumes it from a snapshot, with credentials injected outside the VM. It already powers Gemini's work agents; customer preview is due in the coming months (deep dive).