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Google Developers BlogLabsCost per task: Using cheap classifiers to route across Gemini models and thinking levels Per-token API prices keep falling, yet engineering bills for autonomous coding agents keep climbing....

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Google Developers BlogLabsDevFest is back! DevFest 2026 runs from October 1 to December 31, bringing together nearly a million developers across more than 800 global events centered on the agentic AI era.

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Google Developers BlogLabsBuild Generative UI Apps with A2UI & CopilotKit Agents See Google A2Ui in action! Learn how to natively render agentic UIs across Langchain, AWS Strands, Microsoft agents, and Google ADK using CopilotKit SDKs for A2UI.

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Google Developers BlogLabsSmaller apps and faster GPU inference with LiteRT in Google Play services LiteRT in Google Play services now offers GPU inference powered by ML Drift, delivering about 1.4x faster performance alongside the new CompiledModel API.

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Google Developers BlogLabsHill-Climbing Agent Quality with Agents CLI Evaluation This post walks through the Agents CLI evaluation loop for systematically improving agent performance through continuous testing and grading.

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Google Developers BlogLabsBuilding Conversational Commerce with Multi-Agent Swarms on GCP: A Working Prototype This document provides a publication template and metadata structure for a technical blog post focused on building Conversational User Interfaces (CUIs) using AI.

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Google Developers BlogLabsFast, reliable A2UI, with swappable inference formats A2UI now supports swappable inference formats, introducing A2UI Express which uses up to 3x fewer tokens and cuts latency by compiling compact Python-style syntax into standard A2UI JSON via Agent…

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Google Developers BlogLabsPreview, edit, and collaborate on markdown (.md) files natively in Google Docs and Drive Google Workspace now offers native support for Markdown (.md) files, allowing developers and AI agents to seamlessly collaborate on documentation directly in Google Docs without manual file…

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Google Developers BlogLabsArchitecting Governed, Self-Evolving AI Agents on Google Cloud Learn how Project Chrysalis combines Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, Agent Development Kit (ADK), BigQuery, and a four-gate defense-in-depth security stack (Model Armor, Cloud KMS…

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Google Developers BlogLabsStreaming comes to API Gateway: real-time and AI-ready APIs, without changing your spec API Gateway now supports real-time streaming—including Server-Sent Events, WebSockets, gRPC, and chunked transfer encoding—in Public Preview without requiring changes to your existing API…

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Google Developers BlogLabsPowering the Agent Development Lifecycle with any framework, from ADK to LangChain and beyond The Agents CLI Extension System enables developers to use frameworks like LangChain, LangGraph, or custom enterprise stacks while retaining a unified deployment and evaluation workflow.

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Google Developers BlogLabsUnifying Edge AI: How Coral NPU’s open standard brings portable, energy-viable intelligence from model to silicon Google Research has completed the 32-bit open-source Coral NPU RISC-V architecture with the introduction of its Matrix Execution Unit, which delivers up to 1 TOPS while targeting 10 mW average power…

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Google Developers BlogLabsBringing Visual Graph Debugging to Custom Edge Compilers with Model Explorer Google AI Edge Model Explorer now supports custom compiler intermediate representations and open-source adapters like TOSA, VGF, and PTE for on-device machine learning.

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Google Developers BlogLabsAnnouncing New vLLM and SGLang Inference Engines on TPU This post announces native PyTorch backends for vLLM and SGLang powered by TorchTPU, enabling developers to run and optimize serving workloads using familiar PyTorch tools.

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Google Developers BlogLabsIntegrating TorchTPU into TorchTitan and Optimizing Models for TPU TorchTPU integrates a native torch.device("tpu") backend directly into PyTorch, allowing developers to train large-scale models on Google Cloud TPUs without rewriting code in JAX.

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Google Developers BlogLabsStep by Step guide: Build a Voice Agent That Never Goes Silent using ADK The open-source Agent Development Kit (ADK) and gemini-3.8-live enable developers to build responsive voice agents by implementing non-blocking tools in Python.

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Google Developers BlogLabsNative Model Authoring for Edge with LiteRT Tensor API Meet the LiteRT Tensor API: giving developers native C++ control over the model graph to unify end-to-end ML computations on heterogeneous edge hardware.

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Google Developers BlogLabsThree layers, one repo: a tour of google/adk-recipes The google/adk-recipes repository unifies Agent Development Kit (ADK) resources into three structured layers—core/, plugins/, and contrib/—serving as a single source of truth for building AI agents.

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Google Developers BlogLabsEvaluating AI agents: moving past the vibe check A practical engineering guide and reference architecture for establishing continuous evaluation pipelines for multi-turn AI agents using Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, Google ADK, and…

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Google Developers BlogLabsAnnouncing DPoP Support for Google OAuth: Securing Refresh Tokens Google OAuth Platform now supports DPoP (Demonstrating Proof-of-Possession) to sender-constrain refresh tokens, neutralizing Infostealer malware and adversary-in-the-middle attacks.

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