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Ink and SwitchInk and Switch

Dispatch 012: Local-first talks, Automerge 3, and Scribbling on a Google Calendar

Exploring local-first collaboration through Automerge 3's major memory improvements and the innovative Sketchy Calendar prototype blending formal scheduling with expressive digital annotations.

7/31/2025
OpenAIOpenAI

Introducing Stargate Norway

Introducing Stargate Norway, a new initiative or project expanding Stargate's presence in Norway.

7/31/2025
LyftLyft

Solving Dispatch in a Ridesharing Problem Space

Exploring the complexities and mathematical foundations of real-time bipartite matching algorithms for optimizing driver-rider dispatch in ridesharing platforms like Lyft.

7/31/2025
Google CloudGoogle Cloud

Now GA: C4 VMs with Local SSD, bare metal, and larger shapes, on Intel Xeon 6

Google Cloud launches C4 VMs powered by Intel Xeon 6 with new larger shapes, Titanium Local SSD, and bare metal options delivering up to 60% performance gains and lower latency for diverse workloads.

7/31/2025
Google CloudGoogle Cloud

Announcing a complete developer toolkit for scaling A2A agents on Google Cloud

Google Cloud introduces a comprehensive developer toolkit including A2A protocol v0.3, Agent Development Kit support, flexible deployment options, evaluation tools, and a marketplace to build, scale, and commercialize interoperable Agent2Agent solutions.

7/31/2025
Google CloudGoogle Cloud

Google Cloud's commitment to EU AI Act support

Google Cloud pledges proactive support and compliance tools to help European customers navigate the EU AI Act regulations with secure, transparent, and privacy-focused AI solutions.

7/31/2025
Google CloudGoogle Cloud

A deep dive into code reviews with Gemini Code Assist in GitHub

Gemini Code Assist integrates AI into GitHub workflows to accelerate and enhance code reviews by providing instant summaries, identifying issues, and offering context-aware suggestions, significantly improving code quality and developer productivity.

7/31/2025
Google CloudGoogle Cloud

System-centric monitoring and observability for SAP workloads running on Google Cloud

Workload Manager enhances SAP monitoring on Google Cloud by providing unified, system-centric observability that correlates application and infrastructure metrics for improved performance and reliability.

7/31/2025
Google CloudGoogle Cloud

What’s new with Google Data Cloud

Explore the latest enhancements and features in Google Data Cloud, including improvements in AlloyDB Omni, BigQuery vector search, Datastream integrations, Cloud SQL disaster recovery, Conversational Analytics, and serverless Spark within BigQuery to empower enterprise data analytics, AI, and database management.

7/31/2025
AWS MLAWS ML

Build dynamic web research agents with the Strands Agents SDK and Tavily

Leverage the Strands Agents SDK and Tavily's secure web intelligence APIs to rapidly build flexible, enterprise-grade AI research agents powered by advanced large language models integrated via Amazon Bedrock.

7/31/2025
AWS MLAWS ML

Amazon Strands Agents SDK: A technical deep dive into agent architectures and observability

Explore the Amazon Strands Agents SDK, an open-source framework offering model-driven AI agent architectures, multi-agent collaboration, robust AWS integration, and built-in observability for scalable and secure production deployments.

7/31/2025
AWS MLAWS ML

AI agents unifying structured and unstructured data: Transforming support analytics and beyond with Amazon Q Plugins

Leveraging custom plugins with Amazon Q Business to unify structured and unstructured data for enhanced support analytics using Retrieval-Augmented Generation and precise querying techniques.

7/31/2025