This week, we discuss Google's enterprise agent stack, what makes an agent an agent, and AI's biggest critic. Plus, Coté wants better vision.
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You can’t win against time
The Shining Path of Least Resistance
The Burger Diagram
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Think like a computer
Those are the fun agents.
AI for None of Us
Matt Ray, but verify
Gen-X Stamp Collecting
Rundown
Google Cloud Next
Google Cloud Next '26 Developer Keynote
An Interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian About the Agentic Moment
You can now easily generate files in Gemini.
Google Internal AI Adoption via Steve Yegge
Google builds elite team to close the coding gap with Anthropic
AI's biggest critic has lost the plot
From the GithubCopilot community on Reddit: Change to useage based billing
An update on GitHub availability
"Developer loyalty is at zero right now": Google doesn't care which AI coding tool you use
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OpenAI Misses Key Revenue, User Targets in High-Stakes Sprint Toward IPO
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The future of AI in Ubuntu
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The week that Meta employees became training data
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An Interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman About Bedrock Managed Agents
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