Heading to Las Vegas tomorrow for the prep ahead of Google Cloud Next 2026. Today was all about clearing out my queue of work beforehand. I also updated my bio here to reflect a change in my job.
[article] Salesforce launches Headless 360 to turn its entire platform into infrastructure for AI agents. The first move from most SaaS vendors was to offer their own agents and agent platforms. Build gravity. The second play is to ensure their platforms can play in any agent ecosystem.
[blog] A new way to explore the web with AI Mode in Chrome. People seem to like this change, judging from posts and comments I saw online.
[article] Canva won’t make you use its new AI. Nice. AI should be one way you interact with a product. Not the ONLY available way.
[blog] A year of open collaboration: Celebrating the anniversary of A2A. This community accomplished a LOT in the past year. The protocol itself improved, vendors adopted it, and agent frameworks supported it.
[blog] Build to Learn vs Build to Earn. Whether you’re a product manager or not, know when you’re doing discovery and learning, and when you’re actually building the real product.
[blog] A2UI v0.9: The New Standard for Portable, Framework-Agnostic Generative UI. I’m going to spend more time with this. It’s gotten much easier to empower agents to create UIs.
[article] How does codebase familiarity shape collaboration with coding agents? I didn’t find this research surprising. Core maintainers are more diligent on the codebase than casual contributors who offload more work to AI agents.
[blog] Bringing AI Closer to the Edge and On-Device with Gemma 4. Post from NVIDIA with all sorts of details about this open model and how to run it.
[article] Why AI readiness training fails. I think we all know that any training that isn’t applied within two weeks is forgotten. Can we rethink how we’re upskilling people with AI.
[blog] Streaming Gemini 3.1’s expressive new TTS model in Java. Sweet example of this frankly amazing text-to-speech update for Gemini.
[article] Sleep Deprived. I don’t think more of people who brag about not sleeping. That seems like a dumb decision. I’ll be tested next week in Vegas, but still plan to prioritize rest.
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