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Kaggle and Google are running a 5-day Gen AI Agents Intensive course with daily assignments and lectures from November 10 to 14, 2025.  Start with the  self-paced learning guide  or just check the highlights & key links below. Also see -  Kaggle's 5-Day Gen AI Intensive Course - Notes Notes - "It's not the year of the agent. It's the decade of the agent." - Andrej Karpathy Introduction to Agents Building successful agents isn't just about having the smartest model. The Agent is the combination of the model for reasoning, the tools for action and the orchestration layer managing that loop. Success hinges on the architecture, governance, security, testing, observability An agent can do more than just respond to a prompt — it can take actions to find information or get things done. Whitepaper:  Introduction to Agents Codelabs: Build your first agent using Gemini and ADK - From Prompt to Action Build your first multi-agent systems using ADK - Agent Architec...

WhatsApp from Meta is a free messaging and video calling app. It’s used by over 2B people in more than 180 countries. * WhatsApp was launched in May 2009 by Brian Acton (born 1972) and Jan Koum (born 1976).  Koum chose the name WhatsApp because it sounded like "what's up". The idea started off as an app that would display statuses in a phone's Contacts menu, showing if a person was at work or on a call.  * Apple introduced push technology in June 2009, enabling users to receive notifications even when not actively using the app. Koum modified WhatsApp so that everyone in a user's network would be alerted when their status changed. Surprisingly, users began using this feature to send playful custom statuses like "I woke up late" or "I'm on my way" to each other. * After becoming a computer science graduate from Stanford University, Brain Acton tested products at the Apple Inc. and Adobe Systems, before joining Yahoo as its 44th employee in ...