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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

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

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…

Running high-scale reinforcement learning (RL) for LLMs on GKE

As Large Language Models (LLMs) evolve, Reinforcement Learning (RL) is becoming the crucial technique for aligning powerful models with human preferences and co…

Supporting Viksit Bharat: Announcing our newest AI investments in India

Editor's note: This blog has been translated into Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, and Telugu. India’s developer community, vibrant startup ecosystem, and leadin…

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…

How Lightricks trains video diffusion models at scale with JAX on TPU

Training large video diffusion models at scale isn't just computationally expensive — it can become impossible when your framework can't keep pace with your amb…

BigQuery under the hood: How Google brought embeddings to analytics

Embeddings are a crucial component at the intersection of data and AI. As data structures, they encode the inherent meaning of the data they represent, and thei…

New AI model called "Count Anything" does exactly what it says, and that's harder than it sounds

"Count Anything" is intended to be the first AI model capable of counting objects in any type of image, from crowds to cell samples under a microscope, using no…

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 …

Google Research's Gemini-SQL2 tops text-to-SQL benchmarks by a wide margin

Google Research's Gemini-SQL2 turns natural language into executable SQL queries. Built on Gemini 3.1 Pro, it tops the BIRD benchmark at 80.04 percent accuracy,…

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits he's a token-maxer, too: "It's addictive"

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is warning against "token-maxing," throwing the most powerful AI models at every problem. Frontier models shouldn't be wasted on eve…

Claude Fable 5 outpaces GPT-5.5 by 13 points on FrontierMath's toughest problems

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 hits 88 percent accuracy on the hardest FrontierMath tier, a massive jump from Opus 4.5, which sat below 10 percent in early 2026. Op…

Moonshot's open model Kimi K2.7 Code undercuts GPT-5.5 and Claude by up to 12x on price per token

Moonshot AI has released Kimi K2.7 Code, an open-weights model with one trillion parameters built for programming. It still trails GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 i…

Meta shifts from "tokenmaxxing" to token managing as internal AI costs reportedly hit billions

An internal memo to 6,000 employees reveals Meta is heading toward billions in AI costs from internal use alone. Starting in 2027, budgets, allocations, and a c…

US government forces Anthropic to disable Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all customers worldwide

The US government has ordered Anthropic to shut down global access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing alleged jailbreak risks. Anthropic is complying but pushing b…

Chinese cybercrime operation that used AI to scam ‘hundreds of thousands of victims’ sued by Google

The tech giant said a group called "Outsider Enterprise" used AI to scam hundreds of thousands of victims, sending 2.5 million text messages over a span of two …

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Defends America’s Warfighters and Intelligence Officers Against Cyber Threats

PROTECTING CRITICAL MILITARY AND INTELLIGENCE MISSIONS: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a National Security Presidential Memorandum to bolster the …

America 250: Presidential Message on the 250th Anniversary of the Virginia Declaration of Rights

On June 12, 1776, Virginia unanimously proclaimed the Virginia Declaration of Rights—the first official declaration of individual liberties in the American Colo…

First Lady Melania Trump’s Remarkable Week Empowering Youth through AI Challenge and Fostering the Future Accounts

First Lady Melania Trump had a remarkable week focused on empowering children and youth through two major accomplishments: the first ever Presidential AI Challe…

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…

Copilot code review: New configurations and controls

With new organization runner controls, Copilot content exclusion support, and the removal of the character limit on repository custom instructions, Copilot code…

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Ire identifies another LOTUSLITE specimen

Project Ire examined a timely malware sample and determined its intent through reverse engineering—identifying LOTUSLITE characteristics even as most major EDR …

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…

National Security Presidential Memorandum/NSPM-12

MEMORANDUM FOR THE VICE PRESIDENT THE SECRETARY OF STATE THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY THE SECRETARY OF WAR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR T…

Flag Day and National Flag Week, 2026

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION On June 14, 1777, the delegates of the Second Continental Congress adopted a resolution declarin…

National Homeownership Month, 2026

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION During National Homeownership Month, my Administration recommits to making housing more affordab…

S. 254 Signed into Law

On Friday, June 12, 2026, the President signed into law: S. 254, the “Alaska’s Right to Ivory Sales and Tradition Act” or the “ARTIST Ac…