An upgraded dev experience in Google AI Studio
Google AI Studio has been upgraded to enhance the developer experience, featuring native code generation with Gemini 2.5 Pro, agentic tools, and enhanced multimodal generation capabilities, plus new features like the Build tab, Live API, and improved t...
Google releases agent development kits for Python and Java
Google has released agent development kits for the Python and Java programming languages. The Python ADK 1.0.0 and Java ADK 0.1.0 were announced on May 20. The open source tool kits are designed to be used for building and deploying sophisticated AI ...
Microsoft beefs up SQL Server 2025 for AI-driven applications
Microsoft is moving SQL Server 2025 into public preview, adding new features to help enterprises develop AI-driven applications. One of the key new capabilities is vector search, which will enable enterprises to perform semantic search on their data u...
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 adds AI-powered management
Red Hat has introduced Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, featuring Lightspeed, an AI-powered service for building, deploying, and managing Red Hat’s Linux using simplified commands. Available through the Red Hat Customer Portal, RHEL 10 was unveiled M...
Google I/O 2025: The most important new launches
At its annual developer conference, Google presented groundbreaking AI innovations that go far beyond mere product updates. Rather, they outline a future in which artificial intelligence is no longer just a tool, but an omnipresent, proactive companio...
What is Markdown? Lightweight text formatting for human beings
The Markdown text format makes it easy for people—not only software developers but anyone with a keyboard—to write text that can be converted readily into HTML or another rich format. What’s special about Markdown is it uses plain-text syntax fo...
Putting agentic AI to work in Firebase Studio
Agents are the big story in AI now. Putting agentic AI to work in software engineering can be done in a variety of ways. Some agents work independently of the developer’s environment, working essentially like a remote developer. For example, Cogni...
Five rules for dealing with Booleans
Booleans are deceptively simple. They look harmless—just true or false, right? What could possibly go wrong? But when you actually use them, they quickly become a minefield. After years of coding, I have learned to tread very lightly when dealing...
Booleans considered harmful
Booleans are deceptively simple. They look harmless—just true or false, right? What could possibly go wrong? But when you actually use them, they quickly become a minefield. After years of coding, I have learned to tread very lightly when dealing...
Five rules for coding with Booleans
Booleans are deceptively simple. They look harmless—just true or false, right? What could possibly go wrong? But when you actually use them, they quickly become a minefield. After years of coding, I have learned to tread very lightly when dealing...
What you should know from the Google I/O 2025 Developer keynote
Top announcements from Google I/O 2025 focus on building across Google platforms and innovating with AI models from Google DeepMind, with key focus on new tools, APIs, and features designed to enhance developer productivity and create AI-powered experi...
Why Microsoft is unifying data and AI within Fabric
Microsoft says that the future of AI-based applications lies in unifying data and intelligence, and that new updates to its data and analytics platform, Fabric, are a step in that direction. Announced at the company’s ongoing Build conference, the u...
What's new with Agents: ADK, Agent Engine, and A2A Enhancements
Updates to Google's agent technologies include the Agent Development Kit (ADK) with new Python and Java versions, an improved Agent Engine UI for management, and enhancements to the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol for better agent communication and security.
Building agents with Google Gemini and open source frameworks
Google Gemini models offer several advantages when building AI agents, such as advanced reasoning, function calling, multimodality, and large context window capabilities. Open-source frameworks like LangGraph, CrewAI, LlamaIndex, and Composio can be us...
From idea to app: Introducing Stitch, a new way to design UIs
Stitch, a new Google Labs experiment, uses AI to generate UI designs and frontend code from text prompts and images, aiming to streamline the design and development workflow, offering features like UI generation from natural language or images, rapid i...
LiteRT: Maximum performance, simplified
LiteRT has been improved to boost AI model performance and efficiency on mobile devices by effectively utilizing GPUs and NPUs, now requiring significantly less code, enabling simplified hardware accelerator selection, and more for optimal on-device pe...
