Hands-on with the Google Agent Development Kit

The Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) is a flexible and modular open-source framework for developing and deploying AI agents. It is optimized for Gemini and the Google ecosystem, but the ADK is model-agnostic, deployment-agnostic, and built for compatibility with other frameworks. The ADK was designed to make agent development feel more like software development, to…

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Databricks pitches Lakewatch as a cheaper SIEM — but is it really?

Databricks has previewed a new open agentic Security Information and Event Management software (SIEM) named Lakewatch that signals its first deliberate step beyond data warehousing into security analytics. The data warehouse-provider is pitching Lakewatch as a lower-cost alternative to traditional security tools, arguing that consolidating security analytics into its data platform can reduce overall spend….

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Small language models: Rethinking enterprise AI architecture

Three key advantages of SLMs Division of labor: Modern AI architecture uses routers to send routine tasks to 7B-parameter SLMs, reserving trillion-parameter LLMs only for complex reasoning. Economic efficiency: For high-volume, repetitive tasks, SLMs can reduce cloud inference costs by up to 90% while providing near-instant latency. Privacy at the edge: Because SLMs can run…

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