In this episode of The Agent Factory, Vlad Kolesnikov and I sat down with Omar Sanseviero from the Developer Experience team at Google DeepMind. We explored the groundbreaking release of Gemma 4: a new family of open models designed to bring high-level intelligence and agentic capabilities directly to consumer hardware and mobile devices. Since the […]
Agent Factory Recap: How Gemma 4 Taught Itself Physics Read More »
Ryan welcomes Bryan O’Grady, Head of Field Research and Solutions Architecture at Qdrant, to discuss the differences between traditional text search engines powered by Lucene and modern vector databases, when vector search’s exact-match needs work for things like logs and security analytics and when semantic search works for user-facing discovery and non-exact results, and how
What (un)exactly do you mean by semantic search? Read More »
We are pleased to announce the general availability of the Amazon S3 Transfer Manager for Swift – a high level file and directory transfer utility for the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) built with the AWS SDK for Swift. Using Transfer Manager’s simple API, you can perform accelerated uploads of local files and directories to
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Orchestration is no longer just about moving data; it is about governing enterprise intelligence. To reflect our deep commitment to and embrace of open-source software, we shared earlier that Cloud Composer is now officially Managed Service for Apache Airflow. We announced a massive leap forward in our orchestration capabilities, fundamentally reimagining how data teams operate
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In the era of AI agents, the distance between a big idea and a working application has never been shorter. As we lean more heavily on agents to help us build applications, a critical question remains: can your database infrastructure keep up? With its virtually limitless scalability and high availability, Firestore, Google Cloud’s fully managed
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The healthcare landscape is undergoing a massive transformation. As electronic health records (EHRs) and critical applications move to the web, the browser has become the new frontline for patient care and data security. Healthcare organizations need a solution that supplies clinicians with fast, familiar access to the tools they need, while providing advanced layers of
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Selective control in autonomous AI systems: Why governing every decision breaks autonomy—and how runtime control actually works at scale
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Ryan welcomes Jason Williams, senior software engineer at Bloomberg and the creator of Rust-based JavaScript engine Boa, to the show to dive into why date and time handling in JavaScript is so difficult and how the Temporal proposal aims to fix it.
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Agents are everywhere, so isn’t it fitting that the Worst Coder in the World goes agentic? A coding newbie explores the challenges and rewards of building an agent for work—and trying to learn a few things about coding along the way.
The Worst Coder in the World goes agentic: building a leaderboard cracking AI Read More »
Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for April 2026. Today, Francis deSouza, COO Google Cloud and President, Security Products, explains why Google is multicloud and multi-AI, straight from Next ‘26. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog. If you’re reading this on the
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