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The agentic stack, tracked daily: MCP and A2A protocols, LangChain/LangGraph, Claude Code, OpenAI Agents SDK, agent frameworks, benchmarks and orchestration patterns.

The agentic stack, tracked daily: MCP and A2A protocols, LangChain/LangGraph, Claude Code, OpenAI Agents SDK, agent frameworks, benchmarks and orchestration patterns.

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What my agent knows about me
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What my agent knows about me

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AI Leaders Propose SAFE Guidelines for Cybersecurity Transparency
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AI Leaders Propose SAFE Guidelines for Cybersecurity Transparency

Members of the Open Secure AI Alliance — now more than 120 organizations strong — are developing new guidelines to strengthen agentic AI cybersecurity as the an…

Escaping the pilot trap: Building HR for the agentic era
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Escaping the pilot trap: Building HR for the agentic era

Organizations that create the most effective agentic HR functions don’t just scale pilots. They define the human–agent operating model for the function first, t…

Trigger Copilot automations with comments
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Trigger Copilot automations with comments

You can now create Copilot cloud agent automations that run when an issue comment or pull request comment is created. Common use cases include: Generate documen…

Customize the reasoning level for Copilot cloud agent
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Customize the reasoning level for Copilot cloud agent

When you delegate a task to GitHub Copilot cloud agent, you can now set the reasoning level for models that support it. This allows you to control how much the&…

Upcoming August 2026 model deprecations in GitHub Copilot
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Upcoming August 2026 model deprecations in GitHub Copilot

We will deprecate the following models across all GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code completions), …

From weeks to minutes: How Formula 1® uses agentic AI on AWS to accelerate data operations
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From weeks to minutes: How Formula 1® uses agentic AI on AWS to accelerate data operations

Formula 1® partnered with AWS to build the Data Accelerator, using agentic AI on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to transform its MarTech data platform. Learn how F1 c…

Orchard: An open framework for scalable agentic AI
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Orchard: An open framework for scalable agentic AI

Orchard is an open-source framework for the research community to train and evaluate AI agents across task types. It reduces complexity while supporting strong …

Here’s why AI agents lie and cheat to reach their goals
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Here’s why AI agents lie and cheat to reach their goals

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more fro…

Announcing the Agentic Catalog Experience in Amazon Quick
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Announcing the Agentic Catalog Experience in Amazon Quick

Amazon Quick introduces the Agentic Catalog Experience, an AI-powered workflow for data curators to discover upstream catalog assets in natural language and aut…

Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 3 Flash deprecated
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Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 3 Flash deprecated

As of today, July 31, 2026, we have deprecated the following models across all GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent m…

What’s new in AI infrastructure and orchestration this month
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What’s new in AI infrastructure and orchestration this month

At Google, AI is a soup-to-nuts endeavor. Obviously, we make leading AI models like Gemini and Nano Banana. We incorporate AI into the tools you use every day (…

Optimizing production agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Observability
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Optimizing production agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Observability

As your AI agents move from prototype to production, the challenge shifts from getting them to work to keeping them fast and efficient. Learn how to use Amazon …

How avatarin built a 24/7 retail agent with GPT-Realtime
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How avatarin built a 24/7 retail agent with GPT-Realtime

avatarin uses OpenAI’s GPT-Realtime to give Yamada Denki shoppers 24/7 multilingual support. In two weeks, 30,000 people used the agent and 92% of survey respon…

How utilities can rewire customer operations with agentic AI
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How utilities can rewire customer operations with agentic AI

Faced with declining customer satisfaction, North American utilities are turning to agentic AI to transform the customer experience for the better while reducin…

GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code, July 2026 releases
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GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code, July 2026 releases

This changelog covers VS Code v1.127 through v1.131, shipped throughout July 2026. These releases improve how you work with agents, review changes, use chat, an…

Echoverse: Deep, evolving environments for computer-use agents
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Echoverse: Deep, evolving environments for computer-use agents

Computer-use AI agents struggle with multi-step workflows like email and customer support. Echoverse trains agents in realistic environments rather than simply …

Do more with less: How GKE can reduce your cost per agent by 75%
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Do more with less: How GKE can reduce your cost per agent by 75%

In today’s agentic era, modern cloud applications are evolving from a set of passive tools to fleets of autonomous digital workers that reason, plan, and take a…

GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio — July update
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GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio — July update

July 2026 brought a new agent based on the Copilot SDK, built-in expertise from the .NET and Azure teams, and more ways to tailor GitHub Copilot to how you and&…

Gemini Robotics ER 2: powering robotics with video understanding, task orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration
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Gemini Robotics ER 2: powering robotics with video understanding, task orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration

Gemini Robotics ER 2 helps robots reason, collaborate, and solve real-world tasks. It represents a step change in video understanding, tool orchestration, and m…

How we secure Figma’s internal systems with agents
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How we secure Figma’s internal systems with agents

Copilot code review: Agent skills and MCP now generally available
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Copilot code review: Agent skills and MCP now generally available

Copilot code review support for agent skills and MCP servers is now generally available for all Copilot Pro, Pro+, Business, and Enterprise users. Previously an…

How GPT-5.6 fuses frontier intelligence with frontier efficiency
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How GPT-5.6 fuses frontier intelligence with frontier efficiency

GPT-5.6 improves AI efficiency across models, inference, and agentic workflows, helping deliver more useful intelligence per dollar.…

Automating customer retention workflows in Amazon Quick
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Automating customer retention workflows in Amazon Quick

Learn how to build a no-code customer retention pipeline in Amazon Quick that detects at-risk customers from call transcripts and CSAT data, scores them by rete…

Generate Autonomous Business Insights with AI Agent and MCP Servers
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Generate Autonomous Business Insights with AI Agent and MCP Servers

Learn how Amazon Bedrock AgentCore delivers autonomous, cross-system business intelligence through configuration rather than custom code. Using pre-built MCP se…

What’s new in Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
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What’s new in Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform

Since we launched Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform a few months ago, we’ve seen inspiring progress from businesses and builders alike. To stir up development, w…

Automate your agent development lifecycle using any coding agent
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Automate your agent development lifecycle using any coding agent

Welcome to our latest Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform deep dive, a practical walkthrough where we’ll teach you how to build real-world, production-ready agents…

Authenticate with Private Key JWT using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity
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Authenticate with Private Key JWT using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity

This post explains how Private Key JWT client authentication works in AgentCore Identity and reviews the supported grant flows. We then walk through creating an…

How AgentCore Gateway supports the MCP 2026-07-28 spec
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How AgentCore Gateway supports the MCP 2026-07-28 spec

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) published its 2026-07-28 specification, the largest revision since launch: MCP is now stateless, with a governed extensions sys…

Grok 4.5 is now available in GitHub Copilot
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Grok 4.5 is now available in GitHub Copilot

Grok 4.5, xAI’s latest reasoning model, is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot. It is designed for fast, agentic coding and complex multi-step workflows, wi…