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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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Expanding Managed Agents in Gemini API:  background tasks, remote MCP and more
Labs

Expanding Managed Agents in Gemini API: background tasks, remote MCP and more

We’re announcing new capabilities in Managed Agents in Gemini API so developers can build reliable, production-ready agents.…

A developer's guide to publishing agents in Gemini Enterprise and Google Cloud Marketplace
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A developer's guide to publishing agents in Gemini Enterprise and Google Cloud Marketplace

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is evolving into Agents-as-a-service (AaaS). Instead of isolated applications, developers are creating AI agents that interoperate …

Report: 83% of organizations need to upgrade their infrastructure to support agentic AI
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Report: 83% of organizations need to upgrade their infrastructure to support agentic AI

For years, enterprise AI has been synonymous with conversational AI — the customer service bots and digital assistants we interact with every day. But today, th…

20 questions for the Agentic Enterprise (and how Agent Platform can help)
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20 questions for the Agentic Enterprise (and how Agent Platform can help)

If you’re an IT leader, you might be getting a lot of questions about how to build and deploy agents. The pressure to move fast is intense, but the engineering …

GitHub Copilot app available to all
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GitHub Copilot app available to all

The GitHub Copilot app is now available on every Copilot plan. Sign in with your GitHub account to start agent-driven development from your desktop. Available o…

AI Innovators Adopt NVIDIA Vera — Why Max Single-Threaded CPU at Scale Matters
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AI Innovators Adopt NVIDIA Vera — Why Max Single-Threaded CPU at Scale Matters

Max single-threaded CPUs at scale are a new category of CPUs built for the agentic AI era. Across the creation and deployment of an agentic system, the CPU is o…

Building the foundation for an autonomous enterprise
Research

Building the foundation for an autonomous enterprise

Artificial intelligence may have captured the public imagination through chatbots and image generators, but some of its most consequential use cases are unfoldi…

The foundational elements of AI architecture that IT leaders need to scale
Research

The foundational elements of AI architecture that IT leaders need to scale

With the rapid progress of AI capabilities and the move to agentic systems, organizations are expanding their use cases as the technology continues to grow. Tha…

Cloudflare replaces its blanket AI bot block with granular controls for search, training, and agent crawlers
Briefing

Cloudflare replaces its blanket AI bot block with granular controls for search, training, and agent crawlers

Cloudflare is giving all customers granular AI bot controls. Site owners can now manage Search, Training, and Agent bots separately instead of blocking them all…

Zhipu AI launches ZCode to challenge Claude Code and OpenAI Codex at a fraction of the cost
Briefing

Zhipu AI launches ZCode to challenge Claude Code and OpenAI Codex at a fraction of the cost

Zhipu AI is bringing GLM-5.2 to its ZCode development environment, pitching the model's long-context capabilities for complex coding tasks. New customers get a …

Run MiniMax models on Amazon Bedrock
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Run MiniMax models on Amazon Bedrock

In this post, we walk through how to get started with MiniMax models on Amazon Bedrock, including the capabilities supported by these models, the service tiers …

Shift into high gear with agents: Securing the software-defined vehicle
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Shift into high gear with agents: Securing the software-defined vehicle

The automotive industry is at a pivotal crossroads as it hits the gas on adopting new technology. The era of the traditional connected vehicle has shifted into …

JADEPUFFER is the first agentic ransomware operation and it exposes old security sins at machine speed
Briefing

JADEPUFFER is the first agentic ransomware operation and it exposes old security sins at machine speed

Security firm Sysdig describes an extortion attack where a language model broke in on its own, stole credentials, and destroyed databases. No human appeared to …

Learning Multi-Agent Coordination via Sheaf-ADMM
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Learning Multi-Agent Coordination via Sheaf-ADMM

Claude Code and Fable 5 ported the 2003 PC game Command & Conquer to native iOS in "a few hours"
Briefing

Claude Code and Fable 5 ported the 2003 PC game Command & Conquer to native iOS in "a few hours"

A Google Deepmind developer ported the 2003 real-time strategy game "Command & Conquer: Generals Zero Hour" to iPhone and iPad using Anthropic's Claude Cod…

AI search agents don't fail at searching, they fail at asking the right questions when queries get ambiguous
Briefing

AI search agents don't fail at searching, they fail at asking the right questions when queries get ambiguous

AI search agents rarely fail at multi-step research because of the search itself. Their real problem is not asking the user for clarification when queries are a…

Open-source tool pxpipe hides text in PNGs to cut Claude Code and Fable 5 token costs up to 70%
Briefing

Open-source tool pxpipe hides text in PNGs to cut Claude Code and Fable 5 token costs up to 70%

The open-source tool pxpipe converts long text prompts for Claude Code into compact PNGs, exploiting the fact that Anthropic charges for images by pixel size, n…

OpenAI cofounder envisions "almost no interface" future where nobody learns software anymore
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OpenAI cofounder envisions "almost no interface" future where nobody learns software anymore

Greg Brockman admits ChatGPT's plugins, heavily marketed in 2023, failed "because the models weren't ready." Instead of app extensions, he sees the future in an…

Microsoft follows Anthropic and OpenAI into the AI super app race with overhauled Copilot and AutoPilot agents
Briefing

Microsoft follows Anthropic and OpenAI into the AI super app race with overhauled Copilot and AutoPilot agents

Microsoft reportedly plans to merge its consumer and enterprise Copilot apps into a single app in August. Rarely used features like Copilot Podcasts are getting…

Claude Code's complicated China problem involves bans on both sides of the Pacific
Briefing

Claude Code's complicated China problem involves bans on both sides of the Pacific

Anthropic is trying to block Chinese companies like ByteDance and Ant Financial from accessing Claude Code, but they're getting around the restrictions through …

UK's AI Security Institute finds standard benchmarks systematically underestimate what AI agents can actually do
Briefing

UK's AI Security Institute finds standard benchmarks systematically underestimate what AI agents can actually do

In a study covering seven benchmarks, the UK's AI Security Institute shows that standard AI evaluations systematically underestimate agent capabilities by cappi…

Meta's AI agent push is moving slower than Zuckerberg planned
Briefing

Meta's AI agent push is moving slower than Zuckerberg planned

Mark Zuckerberg admitted to weaknesses in the company's restructuring during an internal town hall. The AI agents Meta reorganized around are progressing slower…

Upcoming deprecation of Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 3 Flash
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Upcoming deprecation of Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 3 Flash

We will deprecate Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 3 Flash across all GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code c…

Copilot agent session streaming is now in public preview
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Copilot agent session streaming is now in public preview

GitHub Enterprise Cloud customers with enterprise managed users can now access GitHub Copilot agent session data across all Copilot clients, including: Cloud ag…

Best practices for multi-turn reinforcement learning in Amazon SageMaker AI
Practice

Best practices for multi-turn reinforcement learning in Amazon SageMaker AI

In this post, we share best practices for reliable multi-turn RL training. We cover how to build a training environment you can trust, set up an external evalua…

Anthropic says it cut 80 percent of Claude Code's system prompt because Fable 5 models "want a smaller system prompt"
Briefing

Anthropic says it cut 80 percent of Claude Code's system prompt because Fable 5 models "want a smaller system prompt"

Anthropic has cut the system prompt for Claude Code by 80 percent. According to staffer Tariq Shihipar, the new Fable 5 models need fewer instructions and examp…

AI agents can now complete 16 percent of freelance jobs at pro quality, up from 2.5 percent eight months ago
Briefing

AI agents can now complete 16 percent of freelance jobs at pro quality, up from 2.5 percent eight months ago

The Remote Labor Index measures how often AI agents complete paid freelance projects at professional quality. In eight months, the top automation rate has more …

Frontier Signal: The Complete Guide to AI News, Research, Agents & Practice (Updated Weekly)

Frontier Signal: The Complete Guide to AI News, Research, Agents & Practice (Updated Weekly)

Got skills? Make the Figma agent a better collaborator
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Got skills? Make the Figma agent a better collaborator

AlloyDB AI Functions - now with revolutionary performance boosts and cost savings
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AlloyDB AI Functions - now with revolutionary performance boosts and cost savings

AlloyDB is an AI-native database—it isn’t just a passive data store, it intelligently understands and processes your data. With AlloyDB, you get industry-leadin…