Google’s Agent2Agent protocol finds new home at the Linux Foundation At the Open Source Summit North America, it was announced that Google donated its Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol to the Linux Foundation. The A2A protocol offers a standard way for connecting agents to each other. In this way, it complements Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), which … continue reading
At the Open Source Summit North America, it was announced that Google donated its Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol to the Linux Foundation. The A2A protocol offers a standard way for connecting agents to each other. In this way, it complements Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), which provides a way to connect agents to different data sources … continue reading
Google has announced updates across its Gemini 2.5 family of reasoning models, including making Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash generally available and introducing a preview of Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite. According to Google, no changes have been made to Pro and Flash since the last preview, except for the pricing for Flash is different. When these … continue reading
Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4 are capable of undertaking long-running tasks and can work continuously for several hours. Claude Opus 4 excels at coding and complex problem-solving, whereas Claude Sonnet 4 improves on Sonnet 3.7 and balances performance and efficiency. In addition to releasing these new models, the company also revealed a beta for … continue reading
Google I/O is happening today, and Google has announced updates across many of its offerings, from Gemini to Colab to Android Studio. Gemini Gemini Diffusion is a new text model that delivers a 4-5x improvement in output speed compared to similar models and similar performance to models twice as large. The company also released Gemma … continue reading
Google’s Android team is trying to give app developers better insights into how their apps are doing with a redesigned Play Console dashboard and new metrics. The new app dashboard now groups metrics into four core developer objectives: test and release, monitor and improve, grow users, and monetize with Play. Within each objective, three of … continue reading
Google Cloud Next 25 is taking place today, and Google has announced a number of new announcements, mainly related to enhancing Gemini offerings and making it easier to build and adopt agents. Here are a couple of highlights from the event: New tools for building AI agents The company announced the Agent Development Kit (ADK), … continue reading
Software companies are constantly trying to add more and more AI features to their platforms, and AI companies are constantly releasing new models and features. It can be hard to keep up with it all, so we’ve written this roundup to share several notable updates around AI that software developers should know about. Google releases … continue reading
The Android development team is announcing several upcoming updates that will make it easier for app developers to secure their applications. According to the team, security is a priority, and over the last few years it has made several improvements to how security and privacy are managed in Google Play, and recent updates over the … continue reading
Google has announced the release of Gemini 2.5, which is a new reasoning model that the company claims is its “most intelligent AI model” yet. “Gemini 2.5 models are thinking models, capable of reasoning through their thoughts before responding, resulting in enhanced performance and improved accuracy. In the field of AI, a system’s capacity for … continue reading
Software companies are constantly trying to add more and more AI features to their platforms, and AI companies are constantly releasing new models and features. It can be hard to keep up with it all, so we’ve written this roundup to share eight notable updates around AI that software developers should know about. Anthropic’s Claude … continue reading