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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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Evolving Dataflow to process massive datasets for machine learning
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Evolving Dataflow to process massive datasets for machine learning

Google created MapReduce more than 20 years ago to solve the scaling problems in data processing that the then young company was running into. The AI era that w…

Developer's guide to Gemini Enterprise and A2UI integration
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Developer's guide to Gemini Enterprise and A2UI integration

If you've built a chatbot, you know this conversation: User: "Book a table for two tomorrow at 7pm." Agent: "Okay, for what day?" User: "Tomorrow." Agent: "What…

Cool stuff Google Cloud customers built, May edition: Agentic algorithms for supply chains; virtual try-on APIs; robotic camera operators & more
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Cool stuff Google Cloud customers built, May edition: Agentic algorithms for supply chains; virtual try-on APIs; robotic camera operators & more

AI and cloud technology are reshaping every corner of every industry around the world. Without our customers, who are building the future on our platform, there…

The fully-managed Remote MCP Server for AlloyDB is now Generally Available
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The fully-managed Remote MCP Server for AlloyDB is now Generally Available

AI agents possess incredible reasoning capabilities and can perform increasingly complex actions. But the reliability of agentic outcomes depends entirely on th…

Preparing for agentic commerce: REWE’s AI transformation
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Preparing for agentic commerce: REWE’s AI transformation

The German retail and tourism group’s chief digital and technology officer says AI is “the most fundamental change in the way we do business in 50 years.”…

What's new for Managed Service for Apache Spark clusters
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What's new for Managed Service for Apache Spark clusters

At Google Cloud, our goal is to let you run large-scale analytical and data science workloads with maximum efficiency so you can process big data pipelines, mac…

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
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NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Deploy NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. Get 5x faster inference and 30% lower cost for agentic AI workloads with this frontier reasoning m…

Evaluate your Amazon Nova Sonic voice agent at scale, no microphone required
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Evaluate your Amazon Nova Sonic voice agent at scale, no microphone required

In this post, we walk you through the Nova Sonic Test Harness, an open source framework that we built to solve both problems. It serves as a rapid iteration too…

Reinventing autonomous driving in the age of generative AI
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Reinventing autonomous driving in the age of generative AI

As AI-native systems take hold, autonomous driving is becoming a race for compute power, software, data, and semiconductors.…

It’s safe to close your laptop now: Hosting coding agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
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It’s safe to close your laptop now: Hosting coding agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime gives each agent session its own isolated microVM with a persistent workspace, secure tool access through Gateway, and built-in…

Detecting and containing AI-powered threats with Google Security Operations agents
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Detecting and containing AI-powered threats with Google Security Operations agents

To defend against the growing range of AI-accelerated threat actors, organizations need to be able to respond faster to outpace the adversary.Recently, we annou…

Europe’s new e‑commerce agenda: How AI is resetting growth and competition
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Europe’s new e‑commerce agenda: How AI is resetting growth and competition

From agentic shopping to retail media and omnichannel intelligence, AI is changing the economics of digital commerce. Here’s how leaders can turn experimentatio…

Build an agentic incident triage assistant with Amazon Quick and New Relic
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Build an agentic incident triage assistant with Amazon Quick and New Relic

This post shows engineering teams how to apply that principle to one of the most time-sensitive workflows in engineering: incident triage. You will build a cust…

Hands-free first notice of loss: Using Strands Agents and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser Tool for intelligent claims intake
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Hands-free first notice of loss: Using Strands Agents and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser Tool for intelligent claims intake

In this post, we demonstrate how a hands-free FNOL intake system combines agents built with the Strands Agents SDK for domain reasoning with Amazon Bedrock Agen…

Claude Fable 5: Available on Google Cloud
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Claude Fable 5: Available on Google Cloud

Claude Fable 5, Anthropic’s latest frontier model, is now generally available on Google Cloud. This launch is the latest proof point of our ongoing commitment t…

Build an AI-Powered Equipment Repair Assistant Using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
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Build an AI-Powered Equipment Repair Assistant Using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

In this post, you build an AI-powered equipment repair assistant using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that helps farmers and field technicians diagnose equipment prob…

Stop hand-tuning kernels: How Neuron Agentic Development accelerates AWS Trainium optimizations
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Stop hand-tuning kernels: How Neuron Agentic Development accelerates AWS Trainium optimizations

Today, we’re announcing the Neuron Agentic Development capabilities: a collection of AI agents and skills that make this possible for developers building on AWS…

Elevating the customer experience: IKEA’s agentic AI journey
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Elevating the customer experience: IKEA’s agentic AI journey

The Swedish home-furnishing giant’s chief digital officer discusses the need to prioritize AI initiatives amid ‘the risk of doing everything but maybe nothing.’…

Evaluate AI agents systematically with Agent-EvalKit
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Evaluate AI agents systematically with Agent-EvalKit

Agent-EvalKit is an open-source toolkit (Apache 2.0) that makes this evaluation infrastructure available by integrating with AI coding assistants, including Cla…

Double click: Human takes on agentic AI
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Double click: Human takes on agentic AI

Introducing our MCP server: Bringing Figma into your workflow
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Introducing our MCP server: Bringing Figma into your workflow

Double click: What does MCP mean for agentic AI?
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Double click: What does MCP mean for agentic AI?

Design systems and AI: Why MCP servers are the unlock
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Design systems and AI: Why MCP servers are the unlock

Announcing Replicate's remote MCP server
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Announcing Replicate's remote MCP server

Use our MCP to discover, compare, and run models from apps like Claude, Cursor, and VS Code.…

Connect your AI to 1,000+ models with the fal MCP Server
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Connect your AI to 1,000+ models with the fal MCP Server

Today we're launching the fal MCP Server — a hosted endpoint that lets any AI assistant search, run, and chain 1,000+ generative AI models…

Agents, meet the Figma canvas
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Agents, meet the Figma canvas

The TL;DR on MCP: Why context matters and how to put it to work
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The TL;DR on MCP: Why context matters and how to put it to work

FigJam is now your coding agent’s whiteboard too
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FigJam is now your coding agent’s whiteboard too

How to design agentic tools for work
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How to design agentic tools for work

Workflow lab: Expanding the canvas with Figma MCP
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Workflow lab: Expanding the canvas with Figma MCP