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Google unveils screenless Fitbit Air and Google Health app to replace Fitbit (4 minute read)
Google's newest Fitbit Air has a screen. It contains a suite of health sensors that pipe data into the new Google Health app, which has an AI-powered health coach that can tell users what that data means. The device is a small plastic puck that fits into various bands. There will be plenty of colors and style options available. Pictures of the devices and bands and screenshots of the new Google Health app are available in the article.
May 08 | AI
Improving token efficiency in GitHub Agentic Workflows (12 minute read)
GitHub Agent Workflows significantly improve repository hygiene and quality, but costs are becoming a growing concern for developers. AI jobs like agentic workflows are automatically scheduled and triggered, so costs can accumulate out of view. GitHub started systematically optimizing the token usage of many workflows last month. This post describes what the team instrumented, the optimizations it applied, and its preliminary results.
May 08 | It
The AWS MCP Server is now generally available (5 minute read)
AWS' managed MCP Server enables AI agents to securely access AWS services using authenticated IAM credentials. The tool provides real-time documentation retrieval, sandboxed Python script execution, and curated skills to improve agent accuracy. It integrates with MCP-compatible clients like Claude Code, Cursor, and Kiro for production-ready infrastructure management.
May 08 | Dev
How Google made their Gemma LLM 3x faster (4 minute read)
Google's Gemma model achieved a three-fold increase in inference speed using speculative decoding. This technique involves a tiny, fast 'Drafter' predicting tokens that the main model verifies in parallel to efficiently use the GPU and save memory.
