June 18, 2026
10 curated links on AI agents, Python, security, Google Cloud, and engineering, selected by Médéric Hurier.
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A2UI + MCP Apps: Combining the best of declarative and custom agentic UIs - Google Developers Blog
developers.googleblog.com
Google has introduced three architectural patterns to combine the declarative UI model of Agent-to-User Interface (A2UI) with the custom, sandboxed environment of Model Context Protocol (MCP) Apps.
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Announcing the Agentic Resource Discovery specification - Google Developers Blog
developers.googleblog.com
Google and industry partners have released the Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) specification, an open standard to enable the decentralized publishing, discovery, and verification of AI tools and capabilities across the web.
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Run Gemma on the edge with the Coral Board
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This video demonstrates how to run compact language models like Gemma 3 270M locally using the dedicated neural processing unit (NPU) on the new Coral Dev Board.
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OpenAI spending hit $34bn last year ahead of planned IPO
ft.com
Audited financial figures show OpenAI spent approximately $34 billion in 2025 on research, marketing, and massive compute infrastructure as it positions itself for a potential public offering.
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Inside the Mind of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei | The Circuit | Extended Interview
youtube.com
In this extended interview, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei discusses frontier model capabilities, company scale-up strategies, and the paramount importance of AI safety alignment.
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I read every major CS paper of the last 100 years...
youtube.com
Fireship reviews a century of computer science research, highlighting foundational breakthroughs from early information theory to modern deep learning transformer architectures.
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AI Fact or Fiction: The Fable Ban, Tokenmaxxing, Saaspocolypse — With Ara Kharazian
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Economist Ara Kharazian joins the Big Technology Podcast to analyze AI hype, explore SaaS replacement fears, and detail corporate "tokenmaxxing" trends.
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Google Workspace Updates: Enhanced AI avatar features and capabilities in Google Vids
workspaceupdates.googleblog.com
Google has introduced enhanced AI avatar features in Google Vids, enabling users to generate and customize realistic virtual presenters directly from text scripts.
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Google Workspace Updates: Create longer Veo videos and generate multiple at once in Google Vids
workspaceupdates.googleblog.com
Google Vids now supports generating multiple Veo-powered video clips concurrently and chaining them on a single timeline to build longer presentations.
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Google Vids: New AI avatars, voiceovers, and multi-language
youtube.com
Google Workspace showcases its new Google Vids features, including realistic AI-narrated avatars, multi-language speech generation, and advanced text-to-speech voiceovers.