Happy Fake Monday to my American readers who stumbled through a Tuesday after a long holiday weekend. The reading list today has some industry news, and also a handful of pieces that offer great insight into AI topics.
[blog] 📖 An Open Book: Evaluating AI Agents with ADK. Very good post that clearly explains how to create eval sets and test criteria before executing agent evaluations using the Agent Development Kit.
[blog] The core KPIs of LLM performance (and how to track them). Are there ten ideal LLM performance metrics? Three? Fifteen? I don’t know. Whatever you believe is fine, but it’s good to see what others think.
[article] MCP: the Universal Connector for Building Smarter, Modular AI Agents. I read a lot about MCP, but every article adds something to my knowledge base.
[blog] Go 1.25: The Container-Native Release. Go is already great for container workloads, but it looks like this latest release added some major improvements.
[blog] DocumentDB and the Future of Open Source. This will be an interesting project to watch, as many industry giants have backed it.
[article] Why DocumentDB can be a win for MongoDB. Matt used to work at MongoDB, and offers his own brand of helpful insight to where this might go.
[blog] Introducing your newest study buddy: stackoverflow.ai. Can StackOverflow ever rediscover its peak? Probably not, as the world has changed in a few ways. But they’re not sitting idly by.
[blog] Google Cloud’s open ecosystem for Apache Iceberg. It looks like the industry has quickly embraced Iceberg as a standard.
[article] Anthropic raises $13B Series F at $183B valuation. The spigot for AI funding is still flowing, and it’s going to be tough for new entrants who need to commit to a LOT of compute to keep up.
[blog] /whatsnew: A Custom Gemini CLI Command for Google Cloud Updates in Your Terminal. Fun idea that shows the art of the possible. Use a custom command in the CLI to retrieve release notes for your favorite cloud service.
[blog] Mass Intelligence. When you think about it, the fact that nearly everyone on the planet has access to unprecedented “intelligence” is bonkers. Ethan shares how we got here.
[article] Google avoids break up, but has to give up exclusive search deals in antitrust trial. This removes some uncertainty. Our response. Onward and upward.
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