It was another outside day of vacation. Kids and I toured the USS Midway aircraft carrier which is pretty terrific. It may be summer vacation time in this hemisphere, but there’s seemingly no slowdown in this industry.
[blog] What’s new in NotebookLM: Video Overviews and an upgraded Studio. We’re in a golden age of learning right now. It’s never been easier to study and digest new ideas. Love the video overviews!
[article] How to excel in multicloud: The new checklist. It’s a good list of things to consider. That said, there is no “easy” way to be multicloud, and most such solutions rely on a lowest common denominator approach, which strips all the value from your cloud strategy.
[blog] The Commodity Cloud Era is Over – The AI-Native Cloud Is Here. This is one reason you have to rethink your multicloud approach. There’s a good chance you’re solving yesterday’s problems and will be disappointed when you deliver solutions that aren’t relevant anymore.
[blog] Mastering agentic workflows with ADK: the recap. Great summary of some agentic workflow options and when to use which.
[article] Team got cut. Scope didn’t. Common story nowadays? What are you going to do about it? Here’s some advice that I’ve tried to follow myself.
[blog] Gen AI Evaluation Service — Tool-Use Metrics. I’m gaining new appreciation for this eval dimension. As you hand agents more tools, you want to be able to evaluate whether they’re being used correctly.
[article] METR’s study on how AI affects developer productivity. Abi takes a look at that surprising study from a few weeks ago showing that AI tools were slowing people down, not speeding them up. More study needed!
[blog] Pattern Matching with SQL: Real-Time Anomaly Detection Using BigQuery’s MATCH_RECOGNIZE. I didn’t know about this! Something that feels like a regular expression across rows in the data warehouse? Neat.
[blog] Kingdoms and Courts: The “Windsurf Effect” and How We Get Back to Normal in Tech M&A. Good post. I liked the articulation of three areas where AI-focused startups (and others) have moats.
[article] Google Cloud Q2 Surge in Revenue and Backlog Is Microsoft’s Worst Nightmare. Microsoft had terrific quarterly results. But our fundamentals might have a few competitors feeling nervous.
[blog] BigQuery meets ADK & MCP: Accelerate agent development with BigQuery’s new first-party toolset. You can build some valuable interactions with your data platform when its exposed as tools to an agent. This post has useful details on how to do that.
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