Episode
Google Just Built An HR System For Agents
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- Apr 28, 2026
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- 515
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Summary
Google retired Vertex AI in a single afternoon and replaced it with the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform — what Sundar Pichai called "mission control for the agentic enterprise." Stephen Forte argues this is the moment AI agents got an HR system: cryptographic identity, a directory, an access gateway, and a performance review. In this episode: Why Vertex AI is gone — and what the replacement actually does The four pillars of the Agent Platform translated into HR terms (hire, deploy, supervise, review) The traction numbers Google disclosed: 40% QoQ growth, 8M seats, 2,800 enterprises The structural reveal: Anthropic crossed $30B annualized revenue — and is now Google Cloud's largest TPU customer Two concrete moves to make this quarter, plus one CEO-mirror question to leave you with The closing line: The compute will commoditize. The control plane will not. Sources: Google Cloud — Introducing Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform ComputerWeekly — Pichai mission-control framing Infosecurity Magazine — Kurian zero-trust quote Google Cloud Docs — Agent Identity overview Business Analytics Review — A2A protocol and Anthropic on TPU