Did you have a solid week? Our industry is still bonkers with companies like Block resetting after over-hiring and figuring out what to expect from AI. All this while new tech floods our sense every day. Deep breaths. It’s a lot. I’m going to take time this weekend to watch my kiddo play Little League baseball and avoid dwelling on things I can’t control.
[blog] The Generative AI Policy Landscape in Open Source. How do 60 different open source organizations approach generative AI? Kate did the work, and the findings are very interesting.
[blog] Nano Banana 2: Combining Pro capabilities with lightning-fast speed. Impressive stuff from our best image model. Game changer for enterprise users too.
[blog] Signal Forms: Angular’s best quality of life update in years. You might not care about Angular, but this is still a good reminder that the ergonomics of your product/tool/framework make a big impact on people.
[blog] Skills Made Easy with Google Antigravity and Gemini CLI. This is a helpful post for those who are trying to install and manage skills across AI tools.
[article] Software vulnerabilities are being weaponized faster than ever. A quick reminder to have rapid responses in place, especially for software you control yourself.
[blog] Two Beliefs About Coding Agents. I second these. There’s a lot of unstated smarts going into the best prompts, and many of the AI “apps” are personal projects.
[article] I’m a Google exec who spends 20+ hours a week experimenting with AI. This is the best era to be a developer. Behind a paywall, I think. But a good story about my boss who uses AI every day for real work.
[article] Free Skate. Great reminders about the reality of pressure, and our choice in how we deal with it.
[blog] Serving data from Iceberg lakehouses fast and fresh with Spanner columnar engine. What if you didn’t need to do ETL to get data from your transactional database into a lakehouse for analytics? That possibility is now a reality.
[article] Enterprise MCP adoption is outpacing security controls. Yes, there’s a lot of surface area for problems here in the enterprise.
[blog] Securing AI Agents When Using Google Managed MCP Servers: A Defense-in-Depth Guide. Here’s one way to start getting proactive with your remote managed MCP servers. I like this advice.
[article] Google’s Opal just quietly showed enterprise teams the new blueprint for building AI agents. I need to take a second look at this Labs project from us. Seems like a powerful update.
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