This week, we discuss Google's enterprise agent stack, what makes an agent an agent, and AI's biggest critic. Plus, Coté wants better vision.

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Runner-up Titles

• You can’t win against time
• The Shining Path of Least Resistance
• The Burger Diagram
• You guys were talking about CORBA the other day.
• Is this just destiny
• Burger Diagram Aficionado
• Think like a computer
• Those are the fun agents.
• AI for None of Us
• Matt Ray, but verify
• Gen-X Stamp Collecting

Rundown

• Google Cloud Next
  • Google Cloud Next '26 Developer Keynote
  • An Interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian About the Agentic Moment
  • You can now easily generate files in Gemini.
  • Google Internal AI Adoption via Steve Yegge
  • Google builds elite team to close the coding gap with Anthropic
• AI's biggest critic has lost the plot
  • From the GithubCopilot community on Reddit: Change to useage based billing
  • An update on GitHub availability
• "Developer loyalty is at zero right now": Google doesn't care which AI coding tool you use

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