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All blog posts, tools, and guides about Google from Developers Digest.
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AlphaProof Code: AI Agents Formally Verified Signal's Code
Google DeepMind used AI agents to prove security properties of the libsignal machine code in Lean. What the paper actually claims, what you must still trust, and what a builder can copy for agent-written code.
7 min read
Modern Web Guidance: Chrome's Agent Skill Against 2019 JavaScript
Chrome, Edge, Firefox and MDN shipped Modern Web Guidance 1.0, an agent skill and CLI that steers coding agents toward native web platform features. What it does, the vendor-reported eval, and the browser-support argument to check before installing.
7 min read
Gemini Trains on Your Chats Unless Keep Activity Is Off
A Tell HN says paying for Gemini does not stop chat training. What Google documents about Keep Activity, human review and 3-year retention, and what developers should do before pasting code.
7 min read
Android Studio Now Runs Claude and Codex: ACP Setup Guide
Android Studio Rabbit 2 hosts 40+ ACP coding agents, Claude and Codex included, and Android CLI ships as a Claude Code and Codex plugin. Setup and caveats.
7 min read
Gemini 4 Carbon: Benchmarks, Pricing, and Access
Gemini 4 Carbon is Google's new frontier model: 59 on the AA Intelligence Index, $2/$10 intro pricing, but cyber-defender access only. What builders do now.
7 min read
Google Agent Compute Engine: A MicroVM Per Agent, Explained
Google Agent Compute Engine gives every agent its own microVM with no credentials inside. What Google says it does, what is still unpublished, and what a builder can copy today.
8 min read
Gemini Live and TTS Preview Models Retire November 17: Moving to Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Flash TTS
The Gemini API shuts down two Live API preview models and three TTS preview models on November 17, 2026. Replacement ids, what changes in the session config and TTS request, prices before and after, and the code change.
15 min read
Vertex AI Shutdowns This Week: Gemini 2.5 on October 20, 16 Open Models on October 21
Google Cloud retires Gemini 2.5 Pro, Flash and Flash-Lite on Vertex AI on October 20, 2026, and 16 open MaaS models the next day. Replacement ids, prices, and the code change.
11 min read
EmbeddingGemma 2 Guide: Local Multimodal Embeddings for Code
EmbeddingGemma 2 is a 740M open model that embeds code, images, video and audio in one space. Specs, Matryoshka storage math, and where it breaks.
11 min read
Google AI Pro vs Gemini API: What Developers Actually Get
Google AI Pro costs $19.99 a month and has no API key, but includes $10 of monthly Cloud credits. When the subscription wins and when to pay per token.
10 min read
Google Gemini Agent: Coworker Agents With Their Own Email
Google's Gemini agent can create coworker agents with their own Workspace account, email and audit trail. What Google announced and what builders should copy.
7 min read
Gemini 4 Argon: What Developers Can Actually Use
Gemini 4 Argon for developers: what Google shipped, what is verified, why access starts narrow, and what to watch before planning a migration around it.
8 min read
Antigravity vs Cursor (2026): Pricing, Limits, Models, and Which to Pick
Antigravity vs Cursor: Antigravity is free with a weekly limit; Cursor starts at $20/month with the widest model menu. Pricing, limits and a decision guide.
9 min read
NotebookLM Is Now Gemini Notebook: What Changes and What Stays
NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook. What the rebrand changes, what stays the same for existing workflows, and what Hacker News developers are watching for.
6 min read
Developer Fired by Google for Building Google Workspace CLI
Google Workspace CLI creator Justin Poehnelt saw his tool go viral and hit #1 on Hacker News, then was fired two days after Google announced its own version.
6 min read
Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI After Two Years Back at Google
The Transformer co-creator leaves Google DeepMind for OpenAI just two years after Google paid $2.7 billion to bring him back from Character.AI.
5 min read
Gemini CLI to Antigravity CLI Migration Guide: The June 18 Deadline
Gemini CLI to Antigravity CLI migration guide: install, migrate config, update scripts and CI, and avoid the silent MCP failure that breaks tool calls.
6 min read
WebMCP: Google's Browser Standard That Lets AI Agents Use Websites as Tools
WebMCP lets websites expose JavaScript functions and HTML forms to AI agents as structured tools. What the Chrome 149 origin trial does and how to implement it.
8 min read
DiffusionGemma: Google Bets Diffusion Can Make Text Generation 4x Faster
DiffusionGemma is Google's 26B MoE open model that generates 256-token blocks in parallel. What diffusion generation means for latency and local inference.
8 min read
Google Skills Shows the Next Agent Playbook
Google's skills repo shows the next agent playbook: product-specific operating instructions that turn docs into executable procedures for coding agents.
6 min read
Gemini CLI Guide: 1M Token Context and Who Can Still Use It
Gemini CLI puts a 1 million token context in your terminal but now only serves paid Gemini API, Vertex AI and Code Assist users. Setup and TypeScript workflow.
4 min read
Google Antigravity in 2026: IDE, Antigravity 2.0, CLI, Pricing and Limits Explained
Google Antigravity in 2026 explained: the IDE, Antigravity 2.0 desktop app, agy CLI, extensions and Python SDK, plus how pricing, quota limits and models work.
11 min read
Gemini Deep Research: Google's AI Research Agent
Gemini Deep Research plans a multi-step research strategy, verifies sources and writes cited reports. See how it works, Docs and Sheets export, and its limits.
8 min read
NotebookLM: Google's AI-Powered Research and Podcast Tool
NotebookLM turns your documents into cited Q&A notebooks and AI-generated podcasts. How it works, plus the Google Illuminate experiment for PDF audio overviews.
9 min read
Related Tools
All tools →Gemini CLI
Open sourceGoogle's open-source (Apache 2.0) terminal agent for Gemini models. Paid Gemini API, Vertex AI, and Code Assist Standard or Enterprise users keep access; unpaid tier and Google One users moved to Antigravity CLI on June 18, 2026.
AI CodingGemini
Google's model family. As of October 2026 Gemini 4 Argon (GA October 13, 1M token context) is the flagship for coding and agents, with Gemini 3.8 Flash (free tier in AI Studio) as the fast, cheaper option.
AI ModelsNotebookLM
Google's AI notebook that lets you ground a Gemini chat in your own uploaded sources. Generates summaries, mind maps, and podcast-style audio overviews.
ProductivityFirebase
Google's BaaS platform. Firestore (NoSQL), Realtime Database, Auth, Cloud Functions, Hosting, and ML. Free Spark tier; pay-as-you-go Blaze.
InfrastructureJules
Google's asynchronous coding agent. Point it at a GitHub repo, it clones to a cloud VM, plans with Gemini, and opens a pull request. Tiered plans from 15 to 300 tasks per day.
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