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Google Supercharges Gemini 3 Flash with Agentic Vision
Google has added agentic vision to Gemini 3 Flash, combining visual reasoning with code execution to "ground answers in visual evidence". According to Google, this not only improves accuracy, but more importantly unlocks entirely new AI-driven behaviors.
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Datadog Integrates Google Agent Development Kit into LLM Observability Tools
Datadog recently announced that its LLM Observability platform now provides automatic instrumentation for applications built with Google's Agent Development Kit (ADK), offering deeper visibility into the behavior, performance, cost, and safety of AI-driven agentic systems.
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Google Pushes for gRPC Support in Model Context Protocol
Google Cloud is bridging a critical gap for enterprises by introducing a gRPC transport package for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), enhancing integration for businesses already using gRPC. This game-changer reduces development friction, ensuring AI agents seamlessly connect with existing services while boosting performance and efficiency. Join the evolving landscape of AI integration!
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Google Introduces Managed Connection Pooling for AlloyDB
Google Cloud has launched managed connection pooling for AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, boosting client connections by 3x and transactional throughput by up to 5x. This feature simplifies database management by automating connection management and reducing latency.
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Swift Cross-Platform Framework Skip Now Fully Open Source
After three years of development, the team behind Skip, a solution designed to create iOS and Android apps from a single Swift/SwiftUI codebase, has announced their decision to make the product completely and open source, in order to foster adoption and community contribution.
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Google Introduces TranslateGemma Open Models for Multilingual Translation
Google has released TranslateGemma, a set of open translation models based on the Gemma 3 architecture, offering 4B, 12B, and 27B parameter variants designed to support machine translation across 55 languages and to run on platforms ranging from mobile and edge devices to consumer hardware and cloud accelerators.
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Google Releases Gemma 3 270M Variant Optimized for Function Calling on Mobile and Edge Devices
FunctionGemma is a new, lightweight version of the Gemma 3 270M model, fine-tuned to translate natural language into structured function and API calls, enabling AI agents to "do more than just talk" and act.
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Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) Powers Agentic Shopping
Google has launched the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open-source standard designed to enhance commerce on AI-powered platforms. UCP creates a common language for agentic shopping, enabling seamless interactions among consumers, businesses, and payment providers.
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Google and Retail Leaders Launch Universal Commerce Protocol to Power Next‑Generation AI Shopping
Google launched the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open standard co-developed with Shopify, Target, and others, enabling AI-driven shopping agents to complete tasks end-to-end from product discovery to checkout and post-purchase management. UCP aims to standardize commerce capabilities, support multiple payment providers, and expand globally. Shaping the next generation of agentic commerce.
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Android Studio Otter Boosts Agent Workflows and Adds LLM Flexibility
The latest Android Studio Otter feature drop introduces several new features that make it easier for developers to integrate AI-powered tools in their workflows, including the ability to set which LLM to use, enhanced agent mode through device interaction, support for natural language testing, and more.
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Google Introduces Conductor, a Context-Driven Development Extension for Gemini CLI
Google has released Conductor, a new preview extension for Gemini CLI that introduces a structured, context-driven approach to AI-assisted software development. The extension is designed to address a common limitation of chat-based coding tools: the loss of project context across sessions.
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Google Releases Gemma Scope 2 to Deepen Understanding of LLM Behavior
Gemma Scope 2 is a suite of tools designed to interpret the behavior of Gemini 3 models, enabling researchers to analyze emergent model behaviors, audit and debug AI agents, and devise mitigation strategies against security issues like jailbreaks, hallucinations and sycophancy.
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Google’s Eight Essential Multi-Agent Design Patterns
Google recently published a guide outlining eight essential design patterns for multi-agent systems, ranging from sequential pipelines to human-in-the-loop architecture. The guide provides concrete explanations of each pattern along with sample code for Google's Agent Development Kit.
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Microsoft Research Develops Novel Approaches to Enforce Privacy in AI Models
A team of AI researchers at Microsoft introduces two novel approaches for enforcing contextual integrity in large language models: PrivacyChecker, an open-source lightweight module that acts as a privacy shield during inference, and CI-CoT + CI-RL, an advanced training method designed to teach models to reason about privacy.
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Google Boosts ART Compile Times by 18% without Compromising Code Quality
Google's Android Runtime (ART) team has achieved a 18% reduction in compile times for Android code without compromising code quality or increasing peak memory usage, delivering significant performance improvements for both just-in-time (JIT) and ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation.