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New course: A2A: The Agent2Agent Protocol, built with @googlecloudtech and @IBMResearch, and taught by Holt Skinner, @ivnardini, and Sandi Besen. Connecting agents built with different frameworks usually requires extensive custom integration. This short course teaches you A2A, the open protocol standardizing how agents discover each other and communicate. Since IBMβs ACP (Agent Communication Protocol) joined forces with A2A, A2A has emerged as the industry standard. In this course, you'll build a healthcare multi-agent system where agents built with different frameworks, such as Google ADK (Agent Development Kit) and LangGraph, collaborate through A2A. You'll wrap each agent as an A2A server, build A2A clients to connect to them, and orchestrate them into sequential and hierarchical workflows. Skills you'll gain: - Expose agents from different frameworks as A2A servers to make them discoverable and interoperable - Chain A2A agents sequentially using ADK, where one agent's output feeds into the next - Connect A2A agents to external data sources using MCP (Model Context Protocol) - Deploy A2A agents using Agent Stack, IBM's open-source infrastructure Join and learn the protocol standardizing agent collaboration! https://t.co/5EDqpuvd0z
I recently spoke at the Sundance Film Festival on a panel about AI. Sundance is an annual gathering of filmmakers and movie buffs that serves as the premier showcase for independent films in the United States. Knowing that many people in Hollywood are extremely uncomfortable about AI, I decided to immerse myself for a day in this community to learn about their anxieties and build bridges. Iβm grateful to Daniel Dae Kim @danieldaekim, an actor/producer/director Iβve come to respect deeply for his artistic and social work, for organizing the panel, which also included Daniel, Dan Kwan, Jonathan Wang, and Janet Yang. I found myself surrounded by award-winning filmmakers and definitely felt like the odd person out! First, Hollywood has many reasons to be uncomfortable with AI. People from the entertainment industry come from a very different culture than many who work in tech, and this drives deep differences in what we focus on and what we value. A significant subset of Hollywood is concerned that: - AI companies are taking their work to learn from it without consent and compensation. Whereas the software industry is used to open source and the open internet, Hollywood focuses much more on intellectual property, which underlies the core economic engines of the entertainment industry. - Powerful unions like SAG-AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) are deeply concerned about protecting the jobs of their members. When AI technology (or any other force) threatens the livelihoods of their members β like voice actors β they will fight mightily against potential job losses. - This wave of technological change feels forced on them more than previous waves, where they felt more free to adopt or reject the technology. For example, celebrities felt like it was up to them whether to use social media. In contrast, negative messaging from some AI leaders who present the technology as unstoppable, perhaps even a dangerous force that will wipe out many jobs, has not encouraged enthusiastic adoption. Having said that, Hollywood is under no illusions that AI will change entertainment, and that if Hollywood does not adapt, perhaps some other place will become the new center for entertainment. The entertainment industry is no stranger to technology change. Radio, TV, computer graphics special effects, video streaming, and social media transformed the industry. But the path to navigating AIβs transformation is still unclear, and organizations like the new Creators Coalition on AI are trying to stake out positions. Unfortunately, Hollywoodβs negative sentiment toward AI also means it will produce a lot more Terminator-like movies that portray AI as more dangerous than helpful, and this hurts beneficial AI adoption as well. The interests of AI and Hollywood are not always aligned. (Every time I speak in a group like this as the βAI representative,β I can count on being asked very hard questions.) Most of us in tech would prefer a more open internet and more permissive use of creative works. But there is also much common ground, for example in wanting guardrails against deepfakes and a smooth transition for those whose jobs are displaced, perhaps via upskilling. Storytelling is hard. Iβm optimistic that AI tools like Veo, Sora, Runway, Kling, Ray, Hailuo, and many others can make video creation easier for millions of people. I hope Hollywood and AI developers will find more opportunities to collaborate, find more common ground, and also steer our projects toward outcomes that are win-win for as many parties as possible. [Original text: https://t.co/70dgCmdxtQ ]
Will AI create new job opportunities? My daughter Nova loves cats, and her favorite color is yellow. For her 7th birthday, we got a cat-themed cake in yellow by first using Geminiβs Nano Banana to design it, and then asking a baker to create it using delicious sponge cake and icing. My daughter was delighted by this unique creation, and the process created additional work for the baker (which I feel privileged to have been able to afford). Many people are worried about AI taking peoplesβ jobs. As a society we have a moral responsibility to take care of people whose livelihoods are harmed. At the same time, I see many opportunities for people to take on new jobs and grow their areas of responsibility. We are still early on the path of AI generating a lot of new jobs. I don't know if baking AI-designed cakes will grow into a large business. (AI Fund is not pursuing this opportunity, because if we do, I will gain a lot of weight.) But throughout history, when people have invented tools that unleashed human creativity, large amounts of new and meaningful work have resulted. For instance, according to one study, over the past 150 years, falling employment in agriculture and manufacturing has been βmore than offset by rapid growth in the caring, creative, technology, and business services sectors.β AI is also growing the demand for many digital services, which can translate into more work for people creating, maintaining, selling, and expanding upon these services. For example, I used to carry out a limited number of web searches every day. Today, my agents carry out dramatically more web searches. For example, the Agentic Reviewer, which I started as a weekend project and Yixing Jiang then helped make much better, automatically reviews research articles. It uses a web search API to search for related work, and this generates a vastly larger number of web search queries a day than I have ever entered by hand. The evolution of AI and software continues to accelerate, and the set of opportunities for things we can build still grows every day. Iβve stopped writing code by hand. More controversially, Iβve long stopped reading generated code. I realize Iβm in the minority here, but I feel like I can get built most of what I want without having to look directly at coding syntax, and I operate at a higher level of abstraction using coding agents to manipulate code for me. Will conventional programming languages like Python and TypeScript go the way of assembly β where it gets generated and used, but without direct examination by a human developer β or will models compile directly from English prompts to byte code? Either way, if every developer becomes 10x more productive, I don't think weβll end up with 1/10th as many developers, because the demand for custom software has no practical ceiling. Instead, the number of people who develop software will grow massively. In fact, Iβm seeing early signs of βX Engineerβ jobs, such as Recruiting Engineer or Marketing Engineer, which are people who sit in a certain business function X to create software for that function. One thing Iβm convinced of based on my experience with Novaβs birthday cake: AI will allow us to have a batter life! [Original text: https://t.co/yws8drSTfO ]
Software development jobs grew 10% over the last year while the overall market declined 5.8%. Quite the narrative violation. https://t.co/Y1ffifq9tJ
Starting today, weβre welcoming our first riders in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Orlando. β¨Be one of them β download the Waymo app today & sign up. https://t.co/I0Di5FwbgP
A statement from Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei, on our discussions with the Department of War. https://t.co/rM77LJejuk
If you ever feel like you're late to the game, consider that in the 1890s many scientists thought physics as a field was completely solved (quote below is from Albert Michelson in 1894). On the front of intelligence science, it feels more like the 1870s. For the first time we have something that is starting to really work (however primitive it may be), which we can use as a springboard for the next few decades of discoveries.
Claude distillation has been a big topic this week while I am (coincidentally) writing Chapter 8 on model distillation. In that context, I shared some utilities to generate distillation data from all sorts of open-weight models via OpenRouter and Ollama: https://t.co/IsfNDpcGAw https://t.co/LKXuGrjO84
if these numbers are correct then about 2.8 million folks are downloading gemini-cli every month ( and using it too i guess? ) that's pretty impressive https://t.co/cpUmpMsicL
@ivanleomk @rachpradhan https://t.co/OfWXd1VtPy my script is here. will make it a cli as well & an agent skill for data prep (probably the most important step) ran in a TTS->ASR loop w/ slopus to test which layers should be LoRA'd
this is probably the nicest I've heard david goggins talk. craziest part is that the data wasn't even cleaned that well LOL. They were all just random youtube motivational shorts that I downloaded https://t.co/vpAFwjWxtC
@ivanleomk @rachpradhan https://t.co/OfWXd1VtPy my script is here. will make it a cli as well & an agent skill for data prep (probably the most important step) ran in a TTS->ASR loop w/ slopus to test which layers should be LoRA'd
Implemented payments today thanks to @stripe. Gotta test this out over the next couple of days. Playing dat consumer psychology game with the 9.99. https://t.co/Y114HLHvqr
No idea if this is true but if it is, +1 point to Chevy who is now just -4,999 in the hole https://t.co/XRm2pVAbzS
No idea if this is true but if it is, +1 point to Chevy who is now just -4,999 in the hole https://t.co/XRm2pVAbzS
Trump: The lives of American heroes may be lost, and we may have casualties β that often happens in war. https://t.co/tbBZlWjYN9
Dua Lipa Close Up π« β€οΈ https://t.co/oNZaMpfznb
They cut Camp McCarran out of S2 too. We should all just https://t.co/HFvx4HvIba
No War With Iran. Get our troops out of Iraq and Syria now. https://t.co/QYKPi38UXU #IranAttack #NoWarWithIran https://t.co/PmE5EEJQCJ
happy 51st birthday, GamemasterAnthony https://t.co/UBahTDAwq4
happy 51st birthday, GamemasterAnthony https://t.co/UBahTDAwq4
This man is a serious foreign policy expert according to PBS and CNN https://t.co/agyiD5i2dJ
This man is a serious foreign policy expert according to PBS and CNN https://t.co/agyiD5i2dJ
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Really important to me that Genghis Khan and his Mongol horde were going around saying 'what up dog' to each other https://t.co/cGhDZyKYz4
the offspring of @PrimeIntellect and @wandb. credit: @MaziyarPanahi https://t.co/SSKz0gkbQa
ten species enter, one survives. credit: @KinvertOG https://t.co/yTk9UzGCfM
Run, Evaluate, Tune, Rerun β»οΈ credit: @gatere_mark https://t.co/OpNhULsf1c
Tools change. So does software. π The fastest-growing projects on GitHub reveal how development is evolving, from AI agents to high-performance tools. We break down the data. β¬οΈ https://t.co/DUgFwqZYyO
How do you guide an AI agent to open PRs on your behalf? π You give it skills. With the Make Contribution agent skill, Copilot CLI automatically finds and follows a repo's contribution guidelines and templates before acting. Get this skill.π https://t.co/fKjeNkK0P0 https://t.co/JE1itjbmZ8
Cool: Building a 60fps animated ASCII banner for GitHub Copilot CLI. π Even cooler: Rendering high-res animation in a terminal without breaking performance. ππ Here's how we did it. π οΈ https://t.co/4qTvoL6VQj
