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1,302 real-world gen AI use cases from the world's leading organizations
This post originally appeared on the Transform with Google Cloud blog. It was first published April 12, 2024; last updated with new use cases April 22, 2026. We first published this list two years ago at Next ‘24, as the agentic era was just dawning. Watching this list grow — propelled by our customer’s enthusiastic commitment to AI — proves we are now firmly in the era of the agentic enterprise.
MLB pitches AI-powered commentary in its play-by-play app
Your browser does not support the audio element. Listen to article [[duration]] minutes On Wednesday, the Major League Baseball season began — and that means millions of diehard fans started logging on to the Gameday feed in the MLB App and MLB.com to catch live pitch-by-pitch scores and highlights for every match-up. When they check out the Gameday feed, alongside the strikes, singles and homers, they'll be greeted by tidbits of commentary.
How Westinghouse is reenergizing nuclear power with — and for — AI
Earlier this year, Westinghouse publicly shared its plan with the White House to have 10 of its state-of-the-art AP1000 nuclear reactors under construction by 2030. The new reactors would help address growing demands on the U.S. energy grid from AI and other sources, and when completed, they would provide enough combined power to electrify 7.5 million households. That’s roughly every household in the five largest U.S. cities plus a few data centers.
Google Cloud works with Fox Sports and MLB to create AI technology
It’s the bottom of the ninth at the World Series. Bases loaded, two outs. The pressure is on — not just for the players on the field, but for the announcers in the broadcast booth trying to capture the moment for millions of fans. Broadcasters like Joe Davis and John Smoltz at FOX Sports, along with their production teams, do hours of prep before each game to make sure they keep things interesting. But now, they have a powerful new ace in their bullpen: Gemini.
Golf champ Bryson DeChambeau is partnering with Google Cloud to explore AI and sports performance.
Bryson DeChambeau is one of the biggest names in golf — and not just because of his major wins, including the U.S. Amateur and U.S. Open victories in 2020 and 2024.DeChambeau has also gained a wide following for his methodical and meticulous approach to the game. He studies and optimizes everything, with the help of a physics degree, going so far as to 3D-print his own club heads. Starting last year, he’s added an AI-powered coaching tool that studies the finest points of his biomechanics.
Google Cloud is working with HCA Healthcare on a Nurse Handoff app
Each day, across HCA Healthcare’s 190 hospitals and approximately 2,400 ambulatory sites of care, nurses repeat the same task around 60,000 times: passing patient-specific information from one nurse to another during shift change to help ensure care continuity and safety. It’s an everyday task that’s anything but routine. The notes are a main part of the patient handoff that happens when nurses change shifts every 12 hours.
How LVMH is using Google Cloud for its “quiet tech”
“Quiet luxury” has become a popular trend in fashion and culture. With timeless designs, expert craftsmanship, and subtle style, quiet luxury is meant to epitomize excellence and taste, whispering “If you know, you know.” LVMH, the world’s leading luxury conglomerate serving 75 distinct maisons, has taken a similar approach when it comes to data and AI. The company worked with Google Cloud to create a platform that could meet each maison’s unique needs.
Google Cloud Next 25
AI is transforming the way we work — from boosting productivity and creativity to delivering real business transformation and impact. And at Google Cloud, we’re bringing the best of Google AI to people, organizations and businesses across the globe. Today, there are over four million developers building with the power of Gemini, our most advanced AI model family.
How Sphere’s new 'The Wizard of Oz' experience is coming to life with AI
“The Wizard of Oz” may not be the first film shot in color, but many people remember it that way because of how director Victor Fleming cleverly used black-and-white film for the scenes set in Kansas. Likewise, “The Wizard of Oz” may not be the first film to be reconceptualized with AI, but it may soon be known for that, too. For months, thousands of researchers, programmers, visual effects artists, archivists and producers at Google DeepMind, Google Cloud, Sphere Studios, Magnopus, Warner Bros.
5 moments you might have missed from Google Cloud Next ‘24
Last week, we wrapped up Google Cloud Next ‘24. Tens of thousands of attendees joined us in Las Vegas to experience the latest technologies and features that are helping organizations around the world accelerate their business transformation — and more than 300 customers and partners shared their gen AI successes. At the event, our CEO Sundar Pichai described how Google has been building specialized AI infrastructure for more than a decade, positioning us at the forefront of the AI platform shift.
1,001 real-world gen AI use cases from the world's leading organizations
This post originally appeared on the Transform with Google Cloud blog. It was first published April 12, 2024; last updated with new use cases October 9, 2025. A year and a half ago, during Google Cloud Next 24, we published this list for the first time. It numbered 101 entries. It felt like a lot at the time, and served as a showcase of how much momentum both Google and the industry were seeing around generative AI adoption.
How Cloud Weaves Sustainability Into The Future Of Retail
Urban Outfitter's rental business, Nuuly, shows how being cloud-first also means being sustainability-first, with the agility and insights going green requires. Nuuly's 300,000-square-foot fulfillment center in outside of Philadelphia. Google Cloud This article originally appeared on Transform with Google Cloud. They say black never goes out of style. It's something the team at Nuuly, URBN's digital rental and resale business, know well.
Banks' secret to the best AI? Embracing their humanity
Have you used the customer service app with your bank the past year, or received an unexpected email with an offer you were actually interested in? Maybe it was a well-timed mortgage re-fi or even some savings at a favorite store. There’s an enduring and unfortunate misperception that AI serves only to replace human workers and irritate human clients. But what if we don’t have to be locked in a zero-sum game with the growing legion of digital intelligence?
BREAKING: City Prevails in Prospect Park West Bike Lane Challenge
Let the good times roll. The city just announced that Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Burt Bunyan ruled in the city’s favor, following an Article 78 challenge filed by two neighborhood groups. There had been some question during the latest round of hearings as to whether a full case would proceed or if the judge would simply dismiss the case. Now we know it’s the latter.
Modular towers rise in New York City
Up until recently, what modular construction there has been in New York City has been on a small scale, mostly row houses for low-income families and seniors in the outer boroughs. The biggest such project to date is the Nehemiah Spring Creek Houses, in East New York, Brooklyn. There, blocks upon blocks of multicolored homes have been built and are now occupied.
The Lowline Just Got a Thumbs-up From City Hall
On (in?) the Lowline. Photo: Matt A.V. Chaban Even more so than the High Line, after which it was named and somewhat inversely inspired, the Lowline is one of the most intriguing urban propositions to come along in some time. Not only is building a mole-man-style park under Delancey Street a daring proposition, but so is the technology of solar arrays behind it that could be adapted to bring natural light deep into office buildings, hospitals, mines, even prisons.
$6 million Greenwich Village condo boasts Jimi Hendrix ties, three bedrooms
By MATT CHABAN Nov 19, 2013 at 10:31 PM Are you a classic rock fan with money to burn and looking for new digs? Then check out the $6 million Greenwich Village condominium where guitar titan Jimi Hendrix once stayed. (Graham Page) This is one foxy apartment! A three-bedroom condo just came on the market at 59 W. 12th St., where Jimi Hendrix once hung his guitar following his legendary 1969 performance at Woodstock.
Will Queens Plaza Become the New Times Square?
Times Square Lite? (JetBlue) It was a big deal when JetBlue decided to move to Long Island City two years ago. The air carrier founded here would not be splitting town, and it would even be boosting a nascent business district that has never done much beyond the Citi back offices despite the one-stop subway ride to Midtown. But it turns out there might also be implications for the skyline.
Security, not brands, will drive auto consumers in 2030
When it comes to cars in the next decade or two, the brand is dead—long-live the brand. Just ask the nearly 12,000 consumers surveyed around the world by IBM’s Institute for Business Value. When quizzed about their vehicle preferences when using e-hailing, ride-sharing or, someday, autonomous vehicle services, almost one-in-two respondents (48 percent) said brand wasn’t a deciding factor.
New apps lift pilots' preflight burdens
From Auckland to Zurich, airlines crisscross the globe daily. Their pilots, like bus drivers or subway conductors, typically fly the same routes. Yet even if they’ve navigated these courses hundreds or thousands of times, no two trips are ever the same. Cabin and cargo occupancies vary. Weather changes, often unpredictably. Even bird migration patterns can present challenges.
Upper West Side couple creates a model home like no other - it's only two-feet wide
Michael DelPriore shrunk down the Roberts West End Ave. co-op to create a keepsake of the home. (Ryerson Studio/Ryerson Studio) David and Deborah Roberts had lived at 325 West End Ave. for a quarter of a century, raising their four children in a five-bedroom apartment Deborah designed. Last year, they sold their dream home — but David found the perfect way to commemorate it. He turned to Michael DelPriore, whose Ryerson Studio has been making architectural models for 29 years.
Douglaston Has the Edge at Northside Piers: New 40 Story Tower for Williamsburg Waterfront
What a difference a year or two makes. (WSJ) This is the last thing anyone was expecting, but it looks like a new shiny tower is coming to the Williamsburg waterfront, the site of one of its more troubled developments, in fact.
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Extell moves closer to building city's tallest spire
Extell Development Company has moved a small step closer to putting up the city's tallest spire. On Tuesday, the Landmarks Preservation Commission unanimously approved plans to demolish a section of the BF Goodrich building at 1780 Broadway. That decision will pave the way for Extell to do excavation and foundation work on its second tower on West 57th Street. The first one at One57 is currently well under way. The new building, set to rise at 225 W.
Modular apartment building rises in 19 days
Nineteen days. That is all the time it took to put up a 28-unit, six-story apartment building in the Inwood section of Manhattan this summer. The secret? Modular construction. Working Monday through Friday from June 20 to July 18, a crew of just eight iron workers, a crane operator, and half-a-dozen helpers installed the 56 modules that make up the apartment building at 4857 Broadway. In a bow to the property's innovative construction technique, the building is to be known as The Stack.
The Unkindest Cuts: New York Has the Most to Lose if the NEA Is Abolished
The Trump administration’s first budget, released on Thursday morning, made good on the threat to abolish the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). This drastic move will slash funding to artists and cultural organizations in all 50 states, but no place has more at stake than the president’s hometown. By many measures, New York City is the cultural capital of the United States, and that goes doubly, or really quintuply, when it comes to NEA grants.
City unveils 3 plans to save crumbling piers
The Bloomberg administration has done a shipshape job of bringing activity to the waterfront, but now City Hall is grappling with what to do about what's going on beneath the water's surface, where currents and sea creatures are relentlessly wearing away at the pilings supporting the city's piers and bulkheads. On Wednesday, the city unveiled three possible solutions to the titanic problem at an awards ceremony at the old Customs House on Bowling Green—and tapped one of those as the winner.
Paving the Way for 6½th Avenue: Midtown Community Board Committee Gives Pedestrian Plan Unanimous Support
Watch out Midtown landlords—here come the crowds. After a laudatory public hearing, Community Board 5’ Transportation Committee unanimously approved the Department of Transportation’s proposal for 6½th Avenue, a string of crosswalks connecting public spaces in a handful of Midtown towers.
Renderings and Reactions to NYU’s Greenwich Village Expansion: What It Looks Like, What It Means
New York University won a huge victory at the City Council today, when it received approval for its somewhat less massive plan to expand its campus in Greenwich Villag, from from 2.5 million square feet to 1.9 million. What does that look like? The university produced some handy visual aids that show exactly that. Was it enough?
Greenpoint Colossus: Massive 10-Tower Complex Could Rise Next Year
Two weeks ago, the unthinkable happened. A new tower is coming to the Williamsburg waterfront, the first since the bubble burst three years ago. It is the biggest news in the neighborhood since then, both figuratively and literally: the third tower at North Side piers will house 500 luxury rental apartments in a 40 story tower, the largest project of its kind yet in North Brooklyn, arguably the entire borough, if the neighboring towers are included.
There Will Be a Clocktower Hotel After All, With Ian Schrager Ringing the Bell
The Observer is not sure which is worse: a Tommy Hilfiger-themed hotel or just another blasé Marriott. The fashion designer had planned to tranform the Madison Square icon into a red-white-and-blue boutique hotel before he backed out. A plan to turn the landmark into condos already failed, but the owners have found a new buyer who still wants a hotel overlooking Shake Shack. This will not be any old Marriott, though, The Journal reports.
If You’re Looking for an Architecture Critic, Try Justin Davidson
Our colleague Jonathan Liu has a nice appraisal in this week’s culture pages of what it means to be the architecture critic at The Times and whether Michael Kimmelman is up to the task.
What Facades! Is the New Museum Gaga?
Is there more to Lady Gaga and the New Museum than a Lower East Side home and a book signing? That is what travel and design web show Great Spaces argues in this video, which is a little bit shallow but nonetheless intriguing. “New York, it’s the natural home of the very surreal, in-your-face, Gaga-like museum,” the host says. “From the massive steel mesh face to the powerful, fluid design, it has it all, it even has a poker face that could give Lady Gaga a run for her money.
For this Maryland city, a smarter city is a safer one
Seat Pleasant, Maryland is located on less than one square mile a few miles east of Washington, DC. It has two major highways running through it, a population of 4,721, and a mayor who likes to ride a bike wearing a shirt with his title in large letters across the back. Upcoming city events include summer movie nights and mini-camps for kiddies. Seat Pleasant is also one of the first small smart cities in the United States.
State of Work: The Coming Impact of Automation on New York
Millions of jobs in New York State will feel the effects of automation in the coming decades. These jobs are not necessarily disappearing, but they are transforming, as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and advanced robotics tackle more roles in the workplace. Policymakers should act now to help New Yorkers prepare for the changes that are coming to the world of work. It has taken decades for New York State’s economy to rebound from the effects of offshoring and globalization.
Sub-par for-profit colleges soak us all
New York State's for-profit colleges are familiar to most New Yorkers from subway ads and billboards, where they promise a quick route to a college credential and a lucrative career. If such offers seem a little too be good to be true, new research from the Center for Urban Future demonstrates how dramatically the reality can fall short of the promise.
Carvalho's out. So who might de Blasio look to next?
Last December, New York City Department of Education Chancellor Carmen Fariña announced her resignation after four years in the position. On Wednesday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that Alberto Carvalho, the Miami-Dade County schools superintendent, as the city’s new chancellor.
NYC’s new schools chancellor should make college success matter
As New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio continues the hunt for a schools chancellor who’s actually up to the task, he knows he has a tough job to fill. The new chancellor will take charge of the city’s largest agency, responsible for serving 1.1 million students, overseeing 66,000 employees and managing a $3.1 billion budget. The candidate will also be expected to lift the high school graduation rate – currently at an all-time high of 74 percent – still higher.
The Transit Crisis Without A Rescue Plan
(photo: Kevin P. Coughlin/Governor's Office) Even as the subways reach the breaking point, hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers face an additional commuting crisis: the lack of fast, reliable transit service in huge swaths of the boroughs outside Manhattan. In neighborhoods from Flatlands to Queens Village to Castle Hill, getting to work is a grinding chore, even when the trains are on time.
How to prepare New Yorkers to benefit from Amazon
Even before New York made the shortlist for Amazon’s second headquarters alongside 19 other cities, many New Yorkers worried that a new home base for the world’s largest internet company would be more burden than boon. But Amazon and its 50,000 well-paying jobs is nothing to sneeze at. Most of New York City’s recent employment growth has been fueled by jobs at the very top and bottom of the economic ladder, with far too few in the middle.
How to prepare New Yorkers to benefit from Amazon
Even before New York made the shortlist for Amazon’s second headquarters alongside 19 other cities, many New Yorkers worried that a new home base for the world’s largest internet company would be more burden than boon. But Amazon and its 50,000 well-paying jobs is nothing to sneeze at. Most of New York City’s recent employment growth has been fueled by jobs at the very top and bottom of the economic ladder, with far too few in the middle.
Solving New York's college success problem with take investment
From Buffalo to the Bronx, New York State faces a college success problem—and the Rochester region is no exception. In fact, graduation rates are alarmingly low at community colleges in Rochester and surrounding counties, and they are making very little progress. According to a recent report from Center for an Urban Future, just 24 percent of full-time students graduate from Monroe Community College with an associate’s degree in three years.
How the city can survive automation—and prosper from it | Crain's New York Business
Automation is threading through every level of the city’s economy, from warehouses and food courts to trading floors and operating rooms. But in recent years, a booming economy has hushed almost any discussion of the looming challenge that automation poses to the workforce. As technology transforms thousands of jobs and automates thousands more, Mayor Bill de Blasio and the City Council no longer have the luxury of time.
Work to Do: How Automation Will Transform Jobs in NYC
In a first-of-its-kind analysis, CUF studied the automation potential of every occupation in New York City, evaluating the likelihood that a machine could perform each job’s component tasks and revealing which ones are most likely to be done by machines in the decades to come. A new Machine Age is coming to New York. From factories, warehouses, and call centers to hospitals, start-ups, and construction sites, automation is reshaping jobs and industries in nearly every corner of the city.
Rockaway Taco returns | Crain's New York Business
In a tiny wooden hut on Beach 96th Street in the Rockaways, a lanky bearded surfer stood on a small ladder painting bands of neon on the walls. Kitchen equipment was strewn across the sidewalk. Electricity had only been turned on this week, and the plumbers were just finishing their work. Even so, Rockaway Taco plans to reopen Friday, May 3.
Downtown Brooklyn Looking Up: At Least Eight New Skyscrapers on the Rise
Earlier this week, we profiled Tucker Reed, the recently enthroned director of the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership. He is responsible for the continued redevelopment (some, maybe many, would call it gentrification) of the area, and he has some big plans in the works, like better connectivity and bringing in more tech firms. It is also up to Mr. Reed to shepherd development in the area, and it looks like he will have his hands full in the coming years.
NYC's infrastructure woes run deeper than the subway | Crain's New York Business
Each passing day seems to bring some new indignity to New Yorkers’ commutes. Last week even Mayor Bill de Blasio and Senator Bernie Sanders were stuck waiting for a delayed A train. Yet if the ongoing subway crisis reminds the city of anything—besides how dependent New York is on mass transit—it is the dangers of neglecting infrastructure. And transit is just the tip of the shovel.
Op-Ed: On New York’s Amazon Wishlist? More Homegrown College Graduates
Bids are due today for Amazon’s new headquarters and it seems cities across North America have joined the fray. New York City alone has multiple neighborhoods vying for Bezos’ bounty. However, New York’s ability to lure the world’s fourth largest corporation will hinge on whether its workforce is primed and ready. There’s no doubt that New York City is a formidable competitor in the quest for Amazon’s HQ2.
On New York’s Amazon Wishlist? More Homegrown College Graduates
(via amazon.com) Bids are due today for Amazon’s new headquarters and it seems cities across North America have joined the fray. The suitors are lining up with billion-dollar bouquets, and with good reason. What mayor could resist the promise of 50,000 well-paying jobs and all the economic energy that comes with the headquarters—a massive boost to the tax base, new cafes and food trucks, spin-off companies, and a legion of happy vendors?
Libraries Can Be More Than Just Books
Chipping away at these needs can seem overwhelming. But New York has an opportunity, one shared by cities across the country, to improve library infrastructure while creating badly needed housing. By using aging branches as sites for development, new libraries may rise with affordable apartments on top. The administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio should seize the chance at sites citywide to link these crucial needs.
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