Google ADK guide builds voice agents that stay talkative during slow tools

Pegasus 1.5 turns long-form video into structured, timestamped metadata, returning every segment matching a described moment. AWS announced availability on Oct 9, 2026.

Deepgram's speech-to-text, text-to-speech and voice-agent models process quadrillions of audio tokens a year for over 200,000 developers and 1,400 organizations. The AWS post details how it optimized those models on Trainium chips.

Projects "dumbtv" and "cleanyourtv" use AI agents to remove sponsored ads, bloatware and ACR viewing tracking from Android TV and Google TV sets over Wi-Fi. cleanyourtv's creator said a few thousand people ran his prompt on Xiaomi, TCL, Sony, Fire TV and LG sets within two days.

Two AWS posts cover KV-cache transfer techniques in vLLM's disaggregated inference: push-based transfer to cut time-to-first-token and time-per-output-token, and bi-directional transfer for multi-turn agentic workloads where clients resend growing conversation history each turn.

Meta replaced per-item IDs with a stable semantic token vocabulary, letting its Generative Ads Model reason about unseen products instead of starting from zero signal. Paired with GEM and Meta's Adaptive Ranking Model, it delivered a +0.35% conversion lift across surfaces for advertisers.

Episode features Uday Kiran Medisetty, a Distinguished Engineer at Uber, discussing codebases that improve themselves. Published as part of The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast.

Midpage, which claims to be 10X cheaper than Westlaw and LexisNexis equivalents, plugs its US case law, statutes and agency materials into Harvey Assistant threads with cited sources in the output. The connector requires a Midpage subscription and is limited to joint customers.