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Google Launches Gemini CLI: Open-Source Terminal AI Agent for Developers
Google has released Gemini CLI, a new open-source AI command-line interface that brings the full capabilities of its Gemini 2.5 Pro model directly into developers’ terminals. Designed for flexibility, transparency, and developer-first workflows, Gemini CLI provides high-performance, natural language AI assistance through a lightweight, locally accessible interface.
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Databricks Contributes Spark Declarative Pipelines to Apache Spark
At the Databricks Data+AI Summit, held in San Francisco, USA, from June 10 to 12, Databricks announced that it is contributing the technology behind Delta Live Tables (DLT) to the Apache Spark project, where it will be called Spark Declarative Pipelines. This move will make it easier for Spark users to develop and maintain streaming pipelines, and furthers Databrick’s commitment to open source.
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Experiences from Using AI as a Software Architect
Artificial intelligence excels at refining language and processing large text volumes, but lacks human-like contextual reasoning and emotional intelligence, Avraham Poupko said. Many human traits come into play when doing software architecture. As an architect, he suggests using AI for exploring tradeoffs and refining language with clarity and precision.
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DevSummit Boston: Key Lessons from Shipping AI Products beyond the Hype
Phil Calçado, CEO of Outropy, shared key insights at the InfoQ Dev Summit on scaling generative AI products. He highlighted the need for effective workflows and agents in AI development, advocating for iterative approaches that leverage proven software engineering principles. His insights promise to guide teams in building resilient AI systems without reinventing the wheel.
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Google's Agent2Agent Protocol Enters the Linux Foundation
Recently open-sourced by Google, the Agent2Agent protocol is now part of the Linux Foundation, along with its accompanying SDKs and developer tools.
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Apple's Illusion of Thinking Paper Explores Limits of Large Reasoning Models
Apple Machine Learning Research published a paper titled "The Illusion of Thinking," which investigates the abilities of Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) on a set of puzzles. As the complexity of the puzzles increases, the researchers found that LRMs encounter a "collapse" threshold where the models reduce their reasoning effort, indicating a limit to the models' scalability.
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Google DeepMind Unveils AlphaGenome: a Unified AI Model for High-Resolution Genome Interpretation
Google DeepMind has announced the release of AlphaGenome, a new AI model designed to predict how genetic variants affect gene regulation across the entire genome. It represents a significant advancement in computational genomics by integrating long-range sequence context with base-pair resolution in a single, general-purpose architecture.
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Jakarta EE 11 Delivers One New Specification, 16 Updated Specifications and Modernized TCK
Although a full GA release of Jakarta EE 11 was originally planned for July 2024, only the Core Profile and the Web Profile were delivered in December 2024 and April 2025, respectively. And now, the Jakarta EE 11 Platform has been delivered featuring one new specification and a new TCK. Ed Burns, release coordinator for Jakarta EE 11, spoke to InfoQ about the release of Jakarta EE 11.
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Logz.io and Dynatrace Innovations Shift Observability into the AI Age
Major observability platform providers are integrating artificial intelligence into their monitoring systems, as enterprises look to their suppliers to reduce the manual work involved in keeping an eye on digital infrastructure. Companies have implemented AI-driven features designed to automate routine operational tasks and accelerate incident resolution processes.
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Report Shows OpenTelemetry’s Impact on Go Performance
A new benchmark study from observability platform Coroot has shed light on the performance costs of implementing OpenTelemetry in high-throughput Go applications. The findings show that while OpenTelemetry delivers valuable trace-level insights, it introduces notable overhead, increasing CPU usage by approximately 35% and increasing network traffic and latency under load.
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Anthropic Upgrades App-Building Capabilities to Claude Artifacts
Anthropic has upgraded Claude with new app-building capabilities, allowing users to create, host, and share AI applications directly from text prompts. This functionality, known as Artifacts, enables users to build functional tools like data analyzers, flashcard generators, or study aids by simply describing their ideas.
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Java News Roundup: Jakarta EE 11 Released, Agent2Agent Java SDK, Kotlin, WildFly, JobRunr, Maven
This week's Java roundup for June 23rd, 2025, features news highlighting: the GA release of Jakarta EE 11; the new Agent2Agent Java SDK introduced by Red Hat; the release of Kotlin 2.2.0; the first beta release of WildFly 37; the first release candidate of JobRunr 8.0.0; and the fourth release candidate of Maven 4.0.
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Google Previews Gemini's Agent Mode in Android Studio Narwhal
Google has announced the integration of Gemini in Android Studio's Agent Mode into the latest canary release of Android Studio, Android Studio Narwhal preview. According to Google, the new Agent Mode is designed to handle multi-step development tasks that span across several files.
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Nvidia's GB200 NVL72 Supercomputer Achieves 2.7× Faster Inference on DeepSeek V3
In collaboration with NVIDIA, researchers from SGLang have published early benchmarks of the GB200 (Grace Blackwell) NVL72 system, showing up to a 2.7× increase in LLM inference throughput compared to the H100 on the DeepSeek-V3 671B model.
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Cloudflare Launches Containers in Public Beta
Cloudflare has announced the public beta of its new container service, enabling developers to run containers on its global network. The service allows users to deploy Docker containers to run workloads difficult to support on the serverless computing platform Workers, such as media and data processing at the edge.