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The agentic stack, tracked daily: MCP and A2A protocols, LangChain/LangGraph, Claude Code, OpenAI Agents SDK, agent frameworks, benchmarks and orchestration patterns.

The agentic stack, tracked daily: MCP and A2A protocols, LangChain/LangGraph, Claude Code, OpenAI Agents SDK, agent frameworks, benchmarks and orchestration patterns.

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Announcing Ironwood TPUs General Availability and new Axion VMs to power the age of inference
Practice

Announcing Ironwood TPUs General Availability and new Axion VMs to power the age of inference

Today’s frontier models, including Google’s Gemini, Veo, Imagen, and Anthropic’s Claude train and serve on Tensor Processing Units (TPUs). For many organization…

ADK architecture: When to use sub-agents versus agents as tools
Practice

ADK architecture: When to use sub-agents versus agents as tools

At its simplest, an agent is an application that reasons on how to best achieve a goal based on inputs and tools at its disposal. As you build sophisticated mul…

Easy AI workflow automation: Deploy n8n on Cloud Run
Practice

Easy AI workflow automation: Deploy n8n on Cloud Run

n8n is a powerful yet easy-to-use workflow and automation tool for multi-step AI agents, and many teams want a simple, scalable, and cost-effective way to self-…

Achieve better AI-powered code reviews using new memory capabilities on Gemini Code Assist
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Achieve better AI-powered code reviews using new memory capabilities on Gemini Code Assist

The best feedback during a code review is specific, consistent, and understands the history of a project. However, AI code review agents today are often statele…

Introducing Agent Sandbox: Strong guardrails for agentic AI on Kubernetes and GKE
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Introducing Agent Sandbox: Strong guardrails for agentic AI on Kubernetes and GKE

Google and the cloud-native community have consistently strengthened Kubernetes to support modern applications. At KubeCon EU 2025 earlier this year, we announc…

Microsoft's SkillOpt boosts GPT-5.5 by using nothing but a trained Markdown file
Briefing

Microsoft's SkillOpt boosts GPT-5.5 by using nothing but a trained Markdown file

Microsoft and three Chinese universities have developed SkillOpt, a method that optimizes instruction documents for AI agents using principles from traditional …

Building Supercharger: How Rocket Close optimized title operations with agentic AI
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Building Supercharger: How Rocket Close optimized title operations with agentic AI

In this post, we explore how Rocket Close built a solution using Strands Agents, large language models (LLMs), Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, a…

NVIDIA Blackwell Leads on First Agentic AI Infrastructure Benchmark
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NVIDIA Blackwell Leads on First Agentic AI Infrastructure Benchmark

AgentPerf from Artificial Analysis, the industry’s first agentic AI benchmark, gives developers, enterprises and infrastructure providers a clear way to compare…

OpenAI kicks off the AI price wars with flexible rate-limit resets for its Codex coding agent
Briefing

OpenAI kicks off the AI price wars with flexible rate-limit resets for its Codex coding agent

OpenAI now lets Codex users bank their rate-limit resets and trigger them manually instead of watching them expire on a fixed schedule. If you hit your usage ca…

New OpenAI Academy courses for the next era of work
Labs

New OpenAI Academy courses for the next era of work

OpenAI introduces three Academy courses that help people build practical AI skills, create repeatable workflows, and apply agents in everyday work.…

From PDFs to insights: Architecting an intelligent document processing pipeline with AWS generative AI services
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From PDFs to insights: Architecting an intelligent document processing pipeline with AWS generative AI services

This post outlines the development of a cost-effective and scalable intelligent document processing pipeline on AWS, powered by Amazon Bedrock and its features.…

Build a meeting prep and follow-up assistant with Amazon Quick and Cisco Webex MCP servers
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Build a meeting prep and follow-up assistant with Amazon Quick and Cisco Webex MCP servers

This post shows how to build a custom meeting prep and follow-up assistant using Amazon Quick and Cisco Webex MCP servers. From a single prompt, the agent finds…

Introducing the Open Knowledge Format
Practice

Introducing the Open Knowledge Format

As foundation models continue to improve, the lack of relevant context often limits what they can do, especially as they are used to build agentic systems. Whil…

Agents feedback tip
Briefing

Agents feedback tip

all apps will become dev tools…

Can I get my agents on the phone?
Briefing

Can I get my agents on the phone?

I haven’t used OpenClaw in weeks…

Is SaaS dead?
Briefing

Is SaaS dead?

MCP comeback in works…

OpenAI buys Ona to push Codex toward long-running, autonomous coding tasks
Briefing

OpenAI buys Ona to push Codex toward long-running, autonomous coding tasks

OpenAI is acquiring Ona, previously known as Gitpod, a startup founded in Kiel, Germany in 2020 that specializes in AI agents and secure cloud development envir…

First Lady Melania Trump Launches Fostering the Future Accounts America’s First Savings & Investment Vehicle for Foster Youth
Policy

First Lady Melania Trump Launches Fostering the Future Accounts America’s First Savings & Investment Vehicle for Foster Youth

First Lady Melania Trump launched her Fostering the Future Accounts, a new financial resource established to empower foster youth to be fiscally autonomous upon…

Real AI Agents and Real Work
Practice

Real AI Agents and Real Work

The race between human-centered work and infinite PowerPoints…

Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3
Practice

Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3

From chatbots to agents…

Claude Code and What Comes Next
Practice

Claude Code and What Comes Next

With the right tools, AI can accomplish impressive things…

Management as AI superpower
Practice

Management as AI superpower

Thriving in a world of agents…

A Guide to Which AI to Use in the Agentic Era
Practice

A Guide to Which AI to Use in the Agentic Era

It's not just chatbots anymore…

Congratulations to Astrix Security on Their Anticipated Acquisition by Cisco
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Congratulations to Astrix Security on Their Anticipated Acquisition by Cisco

This morning, Cisco announced its intent to acquire Astrix Security, the AI agentic security platform. From our first meeting with founders Alon Jackson and Ida…

LLM-Enhanced Messaging: The Rise of Agentic Inboxes
Practice

LLM-Enhanced Messaging: The Rise of Agentic Inboxes

Electronic messaging is the “API” between humans. The same way computers invoke APIs to get a server to take action, we humans send each other e-instructions. R…

The Blueprint: How Movix fills a gap in dental skills with specialized agentic AI
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The Blueprint: How Movix fills a gap in dental skills with specialized agentic AI

Welcome to The Blueprint, a regular feature where we highlight how Google Cloud customers are tackling unique and common challenges across industries using the …

Rewiring software delivery for the agentic era
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Rewiring software delivery for the agentic era

The way agentic AI is being used in software development is a harbinger for broader changes in the delivery model.…

When AI meets desire: Innovating human-centered luxury experiences in the agentic age
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When AI meets desire: Innovating human-centered luxury experiences in the agentic age

With luxury consumers rapidly embracing AI, the strategic question for merchants is no longer whether agents will mediate the journey, but who controls how bran…

AI in SRE: Where and how Google is deploying agentic AI to improve operations
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AI in SRE: Where and how Google is deploying agentic AI to improve operations

Since its inception over 20 years ago, Google has used Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to keep services like Search, Gmail, Maps, YouTube and Google Cloud re…

Nano Banana 2 and Nano Banana Pro are generally available, and already powering creative workflows
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Nano Banana 2 and Nano Banana Pro are generally available, and already powering creative workflows

Organizations are unlocking entirely new ways to use image generation and editing across their industries. To drive next-generation experiences, businesses are …