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JULY 1, 2026 / AI
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.
JUNE 22, 2026 / AI
How a Python agent and a Go agent collaborate on contract compliance using the Agent2Agent protocolY...
JUNE 18, 2026 / AI
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 delegating complex workflows to specialized peer agents, A2A prevents context pollution, ensures data privacy, and simplifies application design through modularity. To demonstrate this ecosystem in action, the post spotlights FoldRun—an agentic interface for life sciences that orchestrates complex protein structure predictions—alongside diverse A2A use cases spanning commerce, data streaming, DevOps, and telecommunications.
MAY 19, 2026 / Mobile
The Google AI Edge Gallery app has expanded its on-device AI capabilities by introducing experimental support for the open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) on Android, allowing Gemma 4 to coordinate complex tasks across external data sources like Google Workspace and Google Maps. To enable more proactive and persistent user interactions, the update adds a "Schedule Notification" skill for automating routines and a persistent chat history feature that restores long session contexts nearly instantly. Driven by an open-source toolkit, the platform encourages community developers to build and share custom utility-focused workflows, prompt configurations, and tool integrations via its GitHub repository.
MAY 12, 2026 / AI
How to transition from stateless chatbots to production-grade agents capable of managing long-running enterprise workflows, such as HR onboarding, that span days or weeks. It introduces the Agent Development Kit (ADK) and its architectural shifts, specifically using durable state machines and persistent session storage to ensure an agent never loses context during "idle time" or server restarts. By leveraging event-driven webhooks and multi-agent delegation, the tutorial demonstrates how to build resilient systems that "sleep" during pauses and wake up to resume complex tasks with high reasoning accuracy.
MAY 4, 2026 / AI
Researchers at UCSD have successfully implemented DFlash, a block-diffusion speculative decoding method, on Google TPUs to bypass the sequential bottlenecks of traditional autoregressive drafting. By "painting" entire blocks of candidate tokens in a single forward pass rather than predicting them one-by-one, the system achieved average speedups of 3.13x, with peak performance nearly doubling that of existing methods like EAGLE-3. This open-source integration into the vLLM ecosystem optimizes TPU hardware by leveraging "free" parallel verification and high-quality draft predictions for complex reasoning tasks.
APRIL 15, 2026 / AI
Gemini CLI has introduced subagents, specialized expert agents that handle complex or high-volume tasks in isolated context windows to keep the primary session fast and focused. These agents can be customized via Markdown files, run in parallel to boost productivity, and are easily invoked using the @agent syntax for targeted delegation. This architecture prevents "context rot" by consolidating intricate multi-step executions into concise summaries for the main orchestrator.
APRIL 2, 2026 / Mobile
Google DeepMind has launched Gemma 4, a family of state-of-the-art open models designed to enable multi-step planning and autonomous agentic workflows directly on-device. The release includes the Google AI Edge Gallery for experimenting with "Agent Skills" and the LiteRT-LM library, which offers a significant speed boost and structured output for developers. Available under an Apache 2.0 license, Gemma 4 supports over 140 languages and is compatible with a wide range of hardware, including mobile devices, desktops, and IoT platforms like Raspberry Pi.
MARCH 30, 2026 / AI
Google has released version 1.0.0 of the Agent Development Kit (ADK) for Java, introducing powerful new features like Google Maps grounding, built-in URL fetching, and a standardized Agent2Agent protocol for cross-framework collaboration. The update enhances agent control through a new "App" and "Plugin" architecture, which allows for global logging, automated context window management via event compaction, and "Human-in-the-Loop" workflows for action confirmations. Additionally, the release provides robust session and memory services using Google Cloud integrations like Firestore and Vertex AI to manage long-term state and large data artifacts.
MARCH 23, 2026 / AI
This blog post introduces a workflow for extracting high-quality data from complex, unstructured documents by combining LlamaParse with Gemini 3.1 models. It demonstrates an event-driven architecture that uses Gemini 3.1 Pro for agentic parsing of dense financial tables and Gemini 3.1 Flash for cost-effective summarization. By following the provided tutorial, developers can build a personal finance assistant capable of transforming messy brokerage statements into structured, human-readable insights.
