[Google Cloud Next '26 Recap #1] Hands-On with the Agentic Hack Zone

<p>On April 30th I got an email from Google about something called GEAR, their new program for building AI agents using ADK, the Agent Development Kit. I signed up, watched the

<p><em>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/google-io-writing-2026-05-19">Google I/O Writing Challenge</a></em></p> <p>I had barely caught up from my

<p>My journey with the <strong>Google Cloud GenAI Academy APAC Edition Cohort 3</strong>, organized by Hack2Skill in collaboration with Google Cloud, was my first proper learning

<p>The results are in! We are thrilled to announce the winners of the <a

<h1> Anthropic Managed Agents Architecture: Decoupling Brain from Hands </h1> <p>Anthropic published <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/managed-agents" rel="noopener

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Am I just another Agent in this world or AI?</p> <p>I’ve been lucky enough to be attending Google Cloud Next this year and it’s been AWESOME so

<p>Vertex AI has been Google Cloud's AI development platform since 2021. On April 22, 2026, at Google Cloud Next in Las Vegas, Google retired it — not with a deprecation notice,

<p>There were many big AI announcements at Google Cloud NEXT '26—but what really impressed me was how simple it is now to turn your idea into an actual working application using