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Google Launches Agent Development Kit for Go
Google has added support for the Go language to its Agent Development Kit (ADK), enabling Go developers to build and manage agents in an idiomatic way that leverages the language's strong concurrency and typing features.
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Google Brings Colab Integration to Visual Studio Code
Google has announced the availability of a new Visual Studio Code extension that connects local notebooks to a Colab runtime. This allows developers to unify their previously separate local development setup and web-based Colab environment.
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Google Launches Code Wiki, an AI-Driven System for Continuous, Interactive Code Documentation
Google has introduced Code Wiki, a new platform designed to keep software documentation continuously synchronized with the code it describes. The system generates a structured wiki for each repository, automatically updates it after every change, and powers an integrated chat interface that understands the entire codebase.
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After Seven Years, Google Reinvents Android Navigation with Jetpack Navigation 3
Google has released the new Jetpack Navigation 3 library, which redesigns from the ground up notification handling in Android apps. The new library gives full control on the back stack and integrates seamlessly with Jetpack Compose's state management.
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Embedding Atlas: Apple’s Open-Source Tool for Exploring Large-Scale Embeddings Locally
Apple has introduced Embedding Atlas, a new open-source tool for visualizing and exploring large-scale embeddings interactively. Designed for researchers, data scientists, and developers, the platform provides a fast and intuitive way to analyze complex, high-dimensional data—from text embeddings to multimodal representations—without requiring any backend infrastructure or external data upload.
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NVIDIA Introduces OmniVinci, a Research-Only LLM for Cross-Modal Understanding
NVIDIA has introduced OmniVinci, a large language model designed to understand and reason across multiple input types — including text, vision, audio, and even robotics data. The project, developed by NVIDIA Research, aims to push machine intelligence closer to human-like perception by unifying how models interpret the world across different sensory streams.
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DeepSeek AI Unveils DeepSeek-OCR: Vision-Based Context Compression Redefines Long-Text Processing
DeepSeek AI has developed DeepSeek-OCR, an open-source system that uses optical 2D mapping to compress long text passages. This approach aims to improve how large language models (LLMs) handle text-heavy inputs.
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Hugging Face Introduces RTEB, a New Benchmark for Evaluating Retrieval Models
Hugging Face unveils the Retrieval Embedding Benchmark (RTEB), a pioneering framework to assess embedding models' real-world retrieval accuracy. By merging public and private datasets, RTEB narrows the "generalization gap," ensuring models perform reliably across critical sectors. Now live and inviting collaboration, RTEB aims to set a community standard in AI retrieval evaluation.
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GitHub MCP Registry Offers a Central Hub for Discovering and Deploying MCP Servers
GitHub has recently launched its Model Context Protocol (MCP) Registry, designed to help developers discover and use the AI tools directly from within their working environment. The registry currently lists over 40 MCP servers from Microsoft, GitHub, Dynatrace, Terraform, and many others.
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Claude Sonnet 4.5 Ranked Safest LLM from Open-Source Audit Tool Petri
Claude Sonnet 4.5 has emerged as the best-performing model in ‘risky tasks’, narrowly edging out GPT-5 in early evaluations by Petri --- Anthropic’s new open-source AI auditing tool.
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Microsoft Announces Open-Source Agent Framework to Simplify AI Agent Development
Microsoft has announced the preview release of Microsoft Agent Framework, an open-source software development kit designed to simplify the creation and deployment of artificial intelligence agents for developers across all skill levels, as reported in official blog posts from the company's development teams.
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MySQL AI Introduced for Enterprise Edition
Oracle has recently announced MySQL AI, a new set of AI-powered capabilities available exclusively in the MySQL Enterprise edition, targeting analytics and AI workloads in large deployments. Concerns are rising throughout the MySQL community over the future of the popular Community edition, amid fears of vendor lock-in and following recent internal layoffs.
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Hugging Face Brings Open-Source LLMs to GitHub Copilot Chat in VS Code
Hugging Face has introduced a new integration that allows developers to connect Inference Providers directly with GitHub Copilot Chat in Visual Studio Code. The update means that open-source large language models — including Kimi K2, DeepSeek V3.1, GLM 4.5, and others — can now be accessed and tested from inside the VS Code editor, without the need to switch platforms or juggle multiple tools.
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Google DeepMind Launches EmbeddingGemma, an Open Model for On-Device Embeddings
Google DeepMind has introduced EmbeddingGemma, a 308M parameter open embedding model designed to run efficiently on-device. The model aims to make applications like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), semantic search, and text classification accessible without the need for a server or internet connection.
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FerretDB Cloud: Open Source Alternative to MongoDB Atlas?
FerretDB has recently announced the availability of FerretDB Cloud, a managed MongoDB-compatible database service built on open source DocumentDB. Targeting developers seeking the first cross-cloud DocumentDB-based solution and an alternative to MongoDB Atlas, FerretDB Cloud is currently available on AWS only.