
Google Cloud Next 2026: How AI Is Reshaping Media, Storytelling, and Audience Engagement
What happens when AI moves beyond experimentation and becomes part of the creative process itself? At Google Cloud Next in Las Vegas, I sat down with Albert Lai to explore how AI is transforming the media and entertainment industry from content creation and production to personalization, localization, and audience engagement. Albert works across Google Cloud, Google, and the wider Alphabet ecosystem to help media organizations rethink how they create and distribute content using cloud infrastructure, multimodal AI, and agentic workflows. And one thing became very clear in this conversation…
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