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Google Mantis: an Agentic Vulnerability Scanning Harness for Reducing False Positives
Google has open-sourced Mantis, an AI-agent framework designed to automate the software vulnerability lifecycle, from identifying and validating vulnerabilities to reproducing and fixing them. Google says it developed Mantis to address the high rate of false positives and hallucinated vulnerabilities produced by conventional AI-powered code scanning.
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Swiggy Uses 350+ Features and Multi-Task MLP to Predict Customer Lifetime Value
Swiggy developed an in-house predicted lifetime value model using more than 350 pre order features and a multi task MLP for Food and Instamart. Adding order count as an auxiliary task reduced model parameters by 63% while improving predictive performance. The pLTV signal is used with Google Target ROAS bidding to optimize customer acquisition.
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Google's HEIR Aims to Make Homomorphic-Encrypted Inference a One-Click Capability
Google is introducing HEIR (Homomorphic Encryption Intermediate Representation), an open-source compiler and development toolchain designed to make encrypted computation easier to deploy. In particular, HEIR can compile pre-trained AI models built for conventional, unencrypted inputs so they can instead operate on encrypted data.
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Google Releases Angular v22 with Stable Signal Forms, OnPush by Default and Experimental WebMCP
Angular v22, Google's TypeScript-first framework, has introduced API stabilizations, ergonomic templates, and tooling enhancements for AI integration. Key developments include the stabilization of Signal Forms, improved change detection strategies, and a new @Service() decorator for dependency injection. The release supports TypeScript 6 and removes deprecated features.
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Android Studio Quail 2 Redesigns Agent Mode, Streamlines AI-Assisted Coding
The latest release of Android Studio, Quail 2, now stable, expands Gemini/AI Agent Mode inside the IDE by enabling multiple AI conversations in parallel and further advancing Google's push to integrate AI-powered workflows directly into Android Studio. It also enhances debugging and profiling capabilities and makes it easier to explore experimental features.
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Google Cloud Workbench Notebooks Extension Connects VS Code to Google Cloud's Jupyter Notebooks
The Google Cloud Workbench Notebooks extension for VS Code is a new tool that enables developers to connect their local IDE directly to managed Jupyter notebook environments on Google Cloud.
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Google and Industry Partners Announce Agentic Resource Discovery Specification for AI Agents
Google and industry partners announced Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) Specification, an open standard for publishing, discovering, and verifying AI tools, APIs, and agents. ARD introduces a discovery layer built on catalogs and registries, enabling dynamic capability discovery while leveraging existing protocols such as MCP and OpenAPI for execution and emphasizing trust and interoperability.
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Google Releases A2UI v0.9: Portable, Framework-Agnostic Generative UI
Google has released A2UI v0.9, a framework-agnostic standard for AI agents to declare user interface intent across multiple platforms without arbitrary code. The update emphasizes alignment with existing design systems. It includes a new SDK for Python, improved error handling, and various transport methods. Migration guidance and evolution specifications are also provided.
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Google OpenRL is an Experimental Self-hosted API for LLM Post-Training Fine-Tuning
Google's GKE Labs has introduced OpenRL, an open-source project that provides a self-hosted API for post-training and fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) on standard Kubernetes clusters.
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Google Launches Colab CLI for Developers, Automation, and AI Agents
Google has announced the Google Colab CLI, a command-line tool that allows developers and AI agents to interact with remote Colab runtimes directly from a local terminal.
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Gemma 4 12B Enables On-Device, Multimodal Agentic Workflows with an Encoder-free Architecture
Google says Gemma 4 12B is "designed to bring agentic, multimodal intelligence directly to your laptop", further noting that the new model can be combined with Google AI Edge to "build and experiment locally, on everyday machines". This integration allows for a wide range of capabilities, from autonomous data processing to generating visual insights and even building webpages or executing tools.
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Google LiteRT-LM Speeds up Local Inference up to 2.2x with Gemma 4 Multi-Token Prediction
LiteRT-LM brings native support for Gemma 4 Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) drafters, enabling up to 2.2x faster inference. The framework is expanding beyond Kotlin and C++ adding support for new Swift and a JavaScript APIs.
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Google Workspace CLI: Unified Command-Line Tool Built for Humans and AI Agents
Google has released a new CLI for Google Workspace, offering a unified interface for various services like Drive, Gmail, and Calendar. Built in Rust, the tool dynamically adjusts to API changes and features over 100 bundled skills. It requires Node.js and a Google Cloud project for setup. Initial community feedback is mixed, highlighting both its dynamic capabilities and setup challenges.
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Google Cloud Suspends Railway's Production Account, Causing Eight-Hour Platform-Wide Outage
Google Cloud's automated systems suspended Railway's production account without notice, triggering an eight-hour platform-wide outage affecting 3 million users. The cascade took down workloads across all providers including AWS and bare metal because Railway's control plane was hosted on GCP. Railway is demoting GCP to backup-only status.
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Google Expands SynthID Adoption for AI Watermarking, Previews Content Detection API
Google's SynthID, designed to embed imperceptible signals into AI-generated content, is adding a new Content Detection API on Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, after gaining adoption by several industry players including Nvidia and OpenAI.