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Google Promoted Agents to Infrastructure Primitives. The Runbook Is a Slack Thread.
Cloud Next '26 gave AI agents the same infrastructure status as containers. The decade of operational discipline that makes containers reliable? Not included. $750M committed, zero Agent SRE playbooks written.
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ADK Ships Both Protocols. The Destination Is Vertex.
Google's ADK is the only agent framework with native A2A and MCP support. It's also a carefully designed funnel from open-source development to Vertex AI Agent Engine — and infrastructure lock-in is the hardest kind to leave.
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Google Has 6 Days to Stop Being the Cheapest AI Nobody Builds On
Cloud Next 2026 opens April 22. Google's tokens are 5-20x cheaper than Claude. Its agent platform has 6% adoption. The math.
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Google's Agent Pricing Is a Trap Disguised as a Discount
Google's AI agent tokens cost 10x less than Anthropic's. The discount is real. So is the lock-in. An opinion on who actually wins the agent pricing war.