Evolving Spec-Driven Development: Conductor Now Supports Antigravity

Conductor has evolved from a Gemini CLI extension into a portable plugin, bringing conversational Spec-Driven Development (SDD) to ecosystems like Antigravity CLI and Claude. Rather than relying on strict command sequences, developers can n

Expanding Choice in Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform: Introducing Grounding with Parallel Web Search

Google Cloud has partnered with Parallel Web Systems to natively integrate Parallel's search infrastructure as a web grounding provider on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. This integration enables developers to anchor their AI agents i

Building scalable AI agents with modular prompt transpilation

To resolve the scaling bottlenecks and runtime errors caused by monolithic system prompts, engineering teams should treat prompts as build artifacts by modularizing instructions into reusable templates. By running these modular "skill files

Systems Engineering Playbook: Optimizing Qwen 3.5-397B MoE on Ironwood (TPU7x)

To serve the 397B-parameter Qwen 3.5 Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model on Ironwood TPUs, engineers developed a modular JAX/Pallas optimization stack that achieved up to a 4.7x inference speedup for prefill-heavy workloads. The team bypassed se

LiteRT.js, Google's high performance Web AI Inference

We're excited to introduce LiteRT.js, the newest member of the LiteRT family! LiteRT.js is our powerful solution for running machine learning models directly in the browser, extending Google's cross-platform edge AI runtime to the web. Buil

Bridging the Domain Gap: AI Race Coach built with Antigravity and Gemini

On May 23, 2026, fresh off the stage at Google I/O, our Google Developer Experts (GDEs) converged on...

We terminated a TPU mid-training and it recovered in seconds: Introduction to elastic training with MaxText

Distributed AI training is notoriously fragile because losing a single machine typically crashes the entire multi-node job, forcing a time-consuming, full-workload infrastructure restart. To address this, Google’s JAX ecosystem utilizes ela

Build agentic full-stack apps with Genkit

The open-source Genkit framework has introduced the Agents API, a full-stack tool designed to simplify the complex plumbing of conversational AI by packaging message history, tool loops, and streaming into a single interface. The API suppor

Why we built ADK 2.0

Answering the questions of "why we built ADK 2.0". This explains the rationale, some of the features, and why a developer should consider upgrading. This will be published the day after ADK go 2.0 launches.

ML Development in VS Code with Google Cloud Power: Workbench Extension Now Available

The Google Cloud Workbench Notebooks extension for VS Code has officially launched, allowing developers to connect their local IDE to scalable, cloud-based Jupyter environments. This integration streamlines the machine learning lifecycle by

Driving the Agent Quality Flywheel from Your Coding Agent

Building AI agents often leaves developers uncertain if prompt tweaks to fix single errors will accidentally cause widespread regressions in production. To bridge this gap, Google has introduced a new developer skill for coding agents that

Build reliable multi-agent applications with ADK Go 2.0. Discover our new graph-based workflow engine, built-in human-in-the-loop, and dynamic orchestration

The Agent Development Kit (ADK) for Go 2.0 has been released, introducing a first-class, graph-based workflow engine to help developers compose complex, multi-agent applications. This update adds built-in primitives for human-in-the-loop (H

Measuring What Matters with Jules

AI coding agents are rapidly shifting from reactive assistants that complete tasks when prompted to ...

Build Cross-Language Multi-Agent Team with Google’s Agent Development Kit and A2A

How a Python agent and a Go agent collaborate on contract compliance using the Agent2Agent protocolY...

How A2A is Building a World of Collaborative Agents

Celebrating the first anniversary of the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol, this blog post highlights how the framework enables autonomous AI agents to securely collaborate and hand off tasks without the rigidity of traditional APIs. By delegat

A2UI + MCP Apps: Combining the best of declarative and custom agentic UIs

This post introduces three architectural patterns designed to integrate Model Context Protocol (MCP) Apps and Agent-to-User Interface (A2UI) to solve the tradeoff between highly custom iframe environments and native, declarative rendering.

Announcing the Agentic Resource Discovery specification

An open specification for finding and verifying tools, skills, and agents across the web.Agents are ...

Unlocking the Power of the TPU Stack: Introducing our new Developer Hub

Google has officially launched the TPU Developer Hub, a centralized educational resource designed to help model builders and developers maximize the performance of Google Cloud TPUs. The hub offers code-first resources, open-source recipes,

Enhance Security and Trust: New Session Metadata in Sign in with Google

Google is enhancing Sign in with Google by introducing new OIDC standard claims—specifically auth_time and amr (Authentication Methods Reference) to provide developers with deeper session metadata. These updates allow verified apps to verif

DiffusionGemma: The Developer Guide

DiffusionGemma is an experimental text-generation model built on the Gemma 4 architecture that uses diffusion-based parallel generation instead of token-by-token autoregression, enabling much faster inference, bidirectional context awarenes

Repository-level GitHub Copilot usage metrics generally available

The Copilot usage metrics REST API now reports repository-level activity. Two new endpoints return a daily, per-repository breakdown of pull request activity for Copilot coding agent and Copilot code review.… The post Repository-level GitHu

GitHub Copilot app now available in the usage metrics API

The Copilot usage metrics API now reports the GitHub Copilot app usage in the enterprise and organization 1-day and 28-day reports. This gives enterprise and organization admins visibility into the… The post GitHub Copilot app now available

In-House LLM Serving at Netflix

Cloudflare WAF protects WordPress applications from two high-severity vulnerabilities

Cloudflare has deployed two WAF rules in response to high-severity vulnerabilities disclosed to us by the WordPress security team. The new rules protect all Cloudflare customers using affected WordPress versions, but customers should still

Copilot code review: Customization and configurability improvements

Copilot code review now utilizes a firewall, custom setup steps, and independent runner configurations. It now reads custom instructions from the head branch to allow for easy testing and validation… The post Copilot code review: Customizat

GitHub Mobile: Fix pull request comments with Copilot cloud agent

You can now select Fix with Copilot directly from Copilot code review pull request comments in GitHub Mobile. The button is available both on the pull request’s main view and… The post GitHub Mobile: Fix pull request comments with Copilot c

The cost of saying yes has changed

The cost of writing code dropped; the cost of owning it didn't. A framework for deciding which changes are actually cheap in the AI era. The post The cost of saying yes has changed appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Kotlin Turns 15: Celebrate the Kotlin Effect

🎉 Kotlin turns 15! 🎉 For 15 years, you’ve helped shape Kotlin into the language it is today. Whether you’ve built apps, contributed to the ecosystem, taught others, or simply chosen Kotlin for your next project – thank you for being part

Data downloaded by Vercel Sandbox is now free

no longer bills for data it downloads from the internet. Installing packages, cloning a Git repository, or pulling artifacts and datasets from an external source does not count toward Sandbox Data Transfer usage.Vercel Sandbox Traffic recei

Runtime logs now show cache reasons

Runtime logs now show a Cache Reason explaining why a request wasn't a fresh cache hit, for example a time-based or tag-based revalidation. Use cache reasons to debug misses and improve your hit rate. Cache reasons appear for any response t

GLM 5.2 is 35% off via Novita on AI Gateway

is 35% off on AI Gateway through July 24 when routed through Novita.GLM 5.2 To get the discounted rate, set the model to in the and route requests through Novita:zai/glm-5.2AI SDK After July 24, the model stays available at standard provide

Optimized CDN caching and deploying of immutable static assets

Vercel now reuses static files across deployments for frameworks that output content-addressed assets. It's zero-config: Vercel uses to manage these immutable files alongside your code changes, handling the hard parts like hash collisions,

Vercel Plugin now available in Kimi Code CLI

The is now available in the .Vercel PluginKimi Code CLI Kimi Code can now draw on Vercel platform knowledge on demand, with skills for Next.js, AI SDK, Vercel Functions, and more. The Vercel Plugin also helps Kimi Code stay up to date with

Chat SDK adds native Slack agent support

Chat SDK's now supports the agent messaging experience . Agents built with Chat SDK could already talk in channels and DMs and stream replies token-by-token. This update adds the Agent badge, agent conversations in the Messages tab, suggest

Advanced search for Projects is generally available

The filter bar in GitHub Projects views now supports advanced search, so you can build the exact view you need with logical AND and OR instead of maintaining a separate… The post Advanced search for Projects is generally available appeared

Repository admins can archive pull requests

Repository admins can now archive pull requests to remove them from public view without permanently deleting them. When a pull request is archived, it is closed and locked. Pull requests… The post Repository admins can archive pull requests

REST API endpoints for Visual Studio Subscription management

GitHub Enterprise Cloud admins can now use the following REST API endpoints to programmatically manage Visual Studio Subscription (VSS) assignments: GET /enterprises/{enterprise}/visual-studio-subscriptions: Returns all VSS assignments for

Xcode 27 runner image now in public preview

You can now build and test your Apple applications against Xcode 27 on GitHub-hosted macOS runners. This is now available in public preview. With early access to the latest Xcode… The post Xcode 27 runner image now in public preview appeare

Unified Logs is now in open beta

One searchable view for logs across every Supabase service, with live tail, filtering, and a timeline.

Announcing Rust 1.97.1

The Rust team has published a new point release of Rust, 1.97.1. Rust is a programming language that is empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup, getting Rust

Write utilization now available in ISR Observability

The now shows subscribers a write utilization metric, helping identify routes that regenerate often but receive few requests. Write utilization is the ratio of cached requests to ISR writes. For routes with low write utilization, consider i

Kimi K3 is now available on AI Gateway

is now available on AI Gateway.Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI K3 is an open-source model with a 1M-token context window and native visual understanding, accepting text, image, and video inputs. Built for long-horizon software engineering, knowled

Improvements to secret scanning and public monitoring

This week, we’re rolling out several improvements to secret scanning and public monitoring: Resend is now a GitHub secret scanning partner. Secret scanning now detects new secret types from APIclub… The post Improvements to secret scanning

GitHub for Beginners: Your roadmap to mastering the GitHub essentials

New to GitHub? This beginner's guide explains version control, repositories, and pull requests—plus everything else you need to start working confidently on GitHub. The post GitHub for Beginners: Your roadmap to mastering the GitHub essenti

Exploring Hierarchical Interest Representation For Meta Ads Deep Funnel Optimization

Hierarchical Interest Representation is a research area for Meta Ads. We’re exploring an upstream representation layer over the universe of Ads entities – users, advertisers, products, services – learning unified embeddings that connect use

How Speechify serves 500,000 dynamic pages to 60 million users on Vercel

Speechify on Vercel 500,000+ pages served across 40+ languages Cut costs 50% by auto-scaling with Fluid compute Zero user impact on bad deploys with Instant Rollbacks started as a tool for people with dyslexia. Cliff Weitzman, Founder & CEO

GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio — June update

June 2026 is about visibility and trust with a clearer view of your GitHub Copilot usage, a new trust layer for MCP servers, and the first C++ scenarios for the… The post GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio — June update appeared first on The G

Vercel Connect support in GitHub Tools

now has first-class support for through the new subpath. Instead of storing a long-lived personal access token, your agent mints short-lived, scoped GitHub tokens at runtime from a connector. There is no secret to store, rotate, or leak.Git

Faster, predictable project linking in the Vercel CLI

The now resolves your team before discovering projects, then searches for projects only in that team instead of sweeping every team you belong to. Linking is faster and more predictable, and every command that establishes a link (, , , , an

Inkling from Thinking Machines is now available on AI Gateway

is now available on AI Gateway.Inkling from Thinking Machines Inkling is a broad generalist model, trained across agentic, reasoning, coding, instruction-following, factuality, vision, and audio tasks rather than optimized for a single doma

Vercel Workflows trace viewer now has a minimap

The trace viewer for now has a minimap that shows the entire run in one view.Vercel Workflows Drag the viewport to pan, resize it to zoom, or drag across the minimap to select a new section. Click anywhere on the minimap to jump to that poi

Chat SDK adds Discord Components V2 support

You can now send Discord bot messages with , an opt-in layout system that treats text, images, files, and buttons as flexible components you can arrange in any order.Components V2 Set the adapter's option to and cards render with native con

A broken DNSSEC rollover took down .al. Now 1.1.1.1 tells you when validation is bypassed

When a failed DNSSEC key rollover took down the .al TLD, we deployed a Negative Trust Anchor to restore resolution. This time, though, clients didn't have to take our word for it: 1.1.1.1 returned EDE 33, a new DNS error code that signals d

Vercel Blob now supports consistent reads on private storage

now supports consistent reads on private storage. Pass to or for a read that reflects the latest write.Vercel BlobuseCache: falseget()presignUrl() A blob written to a fresh pathname has no existing cached entry, so reads reflect the latest

Vercel Plugin now available in VS Code and GitHub Copilot CLI

The is now available in VS Code and the GitHub Copilot CLI.Vercel Plugin GitHub Copilot now has Vercel platform knowledge on demand, with skills for Next.js, AI SDK, Vercel Functions, and more. The Vercel plugin also helps Copilot stay up t

Node.js 20 is being deprecated on October 1, 2026

Following the Node.js 20 end of life on April 30, 2026, we are deprecating Node.js 20 for Builds and Functions on October 1, 2026. How can I see which of my projects are affected? You can see which of your projects are affected by this depr

Endform joins the Vercel Marketplace

is now available on the . It runs your Playwright tests in parallel, so your suite finishes in the time of your slowest test.EndformVercel Marketplace Key capabilities: Install Endform on the or with the Vercel CLI: .Vercel Marketplacevc i

AgentMail joins the Vercel Marketplace

You can now provision and manage directly from the Vercel Marketplace. AgentMail Your AI agents can send, receive, and respond to email from a real inbox. AgentMail handles the mail servers and deliverability. Key capabilities: Install Agen

Chat SDK adds X adapter support

Chat SDK now supports X, extending its single-codebase approach to Slack, Discord, GitHub, Teams, Telegram, and WhatsApp with the new .X adapter Teams can build bots that reply to public mentions and hold direct message conversations throug

Access and share AI Gateway leaderboard data

We are making the data behind the open under the . You can now download or query the data through the API endpoint and render any chart as a shareable image.AI Gateway leaderboardsCC BY 4.0 licenseleaderboard-export The AI Gateway leaderboa

Building Service Topology at Scale: Architecture, Challenges, and Lessons Learned

Amazon SQS turns 20: Two decades of reliable messaging at scale

On July 13, 2006, we launched Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) as one of the first three services available to customers, alongside Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. We had learned firsthand that distributed systems need a reliable way to p

AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Builder Center at 1 year, Network Scanning in Security Hub, Loom for AWS, and more (July 13, 2026)

AWS Builder Center turned one year old last week. Launched on July 9, 2025, the platform has grown from a community hub with Wishlist voting, community profiles, and a toolbox into a full ecosystem with sandbox environments, workshops, Spac

Modernizing the Meta Ads Service With an Open-Source Kernel Scheduler

TL; DR At Meta’s scale, a few milliseconds of latency degradation can have a significant negative impact on ads performance. When a Linux kernel upgrade risked regressing latency across Meta’s ad serving fleet, we turned to sched_ext — the

Introducing Precursor: detecting agentic behavior with continuous client-side signals

Precursor, our new continuous behavioral validation engine for bot management, offers visibility into how humans and bots actually interact across the full user journey. By turning session-level behavior into bot detection signals, it ident

Next.js Security Release and Our Next Patch Release

Next.js is moving to a formal security release process

Open-weight models surge to 29% of volume, price per token flattens

AI Gateway Production Index — July 2026 Every month, routes tens of trillions of tokens between production applications and AI labs, giving us a view of what AI usage actually looks like in today’s enterprise. We publish that view here. See

crates.io: development update

Another six months have passed since our last development update, and the crates.io team has been busy. Here's a summary of the most notable changes and improvements made to crates.io since then. Source Code Viewer Crate pages now have a "C

Agent Runs now show subagent activity on eve projects

You can now inspect subagent activity for eve projects in . Agent Runs The new Subagents tab shows every subagent, organized by which turn started it. Each row shows the prompt, duration, and any failures, all on a shared timeline. Click an

Manage Vercel Flags targeting rules from the CLI

You can now manage targeting rules for through the . With the command, you and your agents can add new rules, move existing ones, and inspect the current ordering without leaving your terminal.Vercel FlagsVercel CLIvercel flags rules Rules

Configure which sources can create deployments with Deployment Policies

Deployment Policies are now available and enable teams to restrict which mechanisms, organizations, and repositories are allowed to create deployments. Each policy can be configured per environment at the team and project level, allowing fl

Better tools made Copilot code review worse. Here’s how we actually improved it.

How migrating Copilot code review to shared Unix-style code exploration tools reduced review cost by reshaping agent workflows around pull request evidence. The post Better tools made Copilot code review worse. Here’s how we actually improv

Improving Smart Tiered Cache for Public Cloud Regions

Smart Tiered Cache allows for precise upper tier selection for origins hosted on AWS, GCP, Azure, and Oracle Cloud with customer-provided cloud region hints.

How GitHub gave every repository a durable owner

GitHub had over 14,000 repositories. Fewer than half had clear ownership. Here's how we gave every active repository a validated owner in under 45 days, archived the rest, and made ownership the foundation for everything that followed. The

The History of Kodee, Kotlin’s Mascot

A few years back, the Kotlin team figured it was time their programming language had a mascot – something fun and friendly to make developers feel more at home. After all, so many other programming languages have their own characters – Gofe

Why we cannot wait for better post-quantum signature algorithms

NIST is advancing nine new post-quantum signature algorithms as potential candidates for future standardization. We take a closer look at all of them, and argue that while they are in the works and show great potential, we should use ML-DSA

Searchable field-level encryption on Supabase with CipherStash

Add field-level encryption to your Supabase project with CipherStash. Searchable ciphertext, zero-knowledge key management, and no schema changes required.

Announcing Rust 1.97.0

The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.97.0. Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup, you can get 1.97.0 w

Automating cross-repo documentation with GitHub Agentic Workflows

Explore how the Aspire team turns merged product changes into SME-reviewed docs pull requests, closing the gap between release and documentation. The post Automating cross-repo documentation with GitHub Agentic Workflows appeared first on T

GitHub availability report: June 2026

In June, we experienced six incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. The post GitHub availability report: June 2026 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.