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Google shows Android agentic workflows using ADK, AG-UI and A2UI
Google's Android Developers Blog details how cloud-hosted agents can stream interactive UI to Jetpack Compose apps using new alpha A2UI renderer libraries.

Meta says anti-scam campaign reached 303 million people in Asia-Pacific
Meta says its "One Step Ahead" education push, built with more than 25 agencies and safety groups, promoted passkeys, two-factor authentication and WhatsApp warnings across 18 countries.

GAO Says DOD IT Programs Lack Fraud Training, Zero Trust Plans
The watchdog's seventh annual review of 18 major Pentagon IT business programs found gaps in fraud risk awareness, cybersecurity strategies and performance reporting.

MIT uses AI to make RNA vaccines stable at room temperature
MIT researchers say an algorithm trained on small datasets found lipid nanoparticle formulations that kept mRNA Covid-19 vaccines stable for a year without cold storage.

AWS adds Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5.5 to Bedrock and Claude Platform
Amazon Web Services says the new Sonnet model improves coding and knowledge work at a lower cost per task, and is available through two AWS access paths.

Berkeley report maps human rights risks of LLMs in three fields
A Human Rights Center study based on 56 interviews across 24 countries finds privacy and freedom-of-thought risks as law, journalism and education adopt large language models.

Cloudflare adds WebMCP support to its Kitesurf agent browser
Cloudflare says its Workers-based browser for AI agents now supports WebMCP tools, passes over 730,000 Web Platform Tests subtests and runs inside the terminal.

Microsoft Research Asia – Singapore marks first year of AI lab
Microsoft says its first Southeast Asian research lab has started nine new university projects and tied its AI agenda to Singapore's national strategy.

Cloudflare brings native Rust and Tokio to Workers via Emscripten
Cloudflare says an experimental preview lets Rust code built on Tokio, including real TCP sockets, run on Workers through a new wasm-bindgen Emscripten target.

NASA targets uncrewed Starliner-1 flight, crew return by 2028
NASA says Boeing's Starliner will fly uncrewed as soon as December to validate thruster fixes, with astronauts not expected back aboard until Starliner-2 in 2028.