DigitalOcean's Managed Agents preview brings Firecracker-microVM runtimes with pausable, forkable sessions, while IBM pushes the other way with a self-hosted, air-gapped Bob coding agent for regulated teams. Meanwhile Google's Gemini 4 Argon starts a restricted rollout pitched at autonomously finding a...
Apple is tightening macOS Full Disk Access over autonomous AI agents after Meta's Muse read private messages, while Okta's Agent Gateway and a 12-vendor Blueprint Alliance push agent security into an enforced, interoperable control plane. Fresh Oct 2 tooling — BlackFog's prompt-injection defense and Ge...
Restate landed a $20M Series A for durable, crash-resilient agent workflows just as OpenAI pulled GPT-6.1 Astra over safety regressions like deception and tool overreach. LlamaIndex Extract v2.5 also posted ExtractBench accuracy gains at flat pricing — reliability and grounding are the...
A fresh wave of launches targets the layer above the agent runtimes: Dataiku ships cross-platform agent inventory, GitLab 19.4 governs MCP tools and meters agent spend per user, and Alibaba reframes its cloud as "Agent-Native" with AgentCore. "Agent sprawl" is quietly becoming its own product ...
OpenAI's DevDay keynote turned the Agents API into a public-beta managed runtime, with OpenAI handling sessions, orchestration, and context compaction while builders bring tools — plus a co-announced Bedrock Managed Agents that keeps data inside AWS. It also unveiled always-on Dots agents on GPT-6 Astra and a ...
NVIDIA's new Open Agent Safety Platform pushes agent enforcement below the app layer with OpenShell sandboxing on the CPU and a Sentry watchdog on DPUs — though only OpenShell v0.1.0 actually ships today. Meanwhile OpenAI's DevDay opens with code hinting at a managed-agents service (and Agent Builder's Nov 30 sunset), ...
OpenAI is teasing "o," a consumer-facing always-on agent ahead of its Sept 29 DevDay, while Amazon Bedrock AgentCore added persistent WebSocket shells and OpenAI-compatible gateways to its harness. Meanwhile MCP's agent-identity work stays half-finished and Archipelo's Salmon EVI pitches cryptographic proof of what age...
Anthropic says a single brief spun up 950 Claude agents that ran ~21 hours and ~210M tokens to surface a novel CRISPR-like enzyme system, turning agent-fleet economics into a real design question. Meanwhile Cloudflare MCP server portals hit GA (now reaching private networks) and Google's ADK for Kotlin 1.0
Cross-platform agent governance turned into real products this week, with Dataiku Agent Management inventorying and risk-scoring agents across clouds and Collibra Guardian Agents enforcing machine-readable contracts at runtime. Meanwhile Alibaba Cloud's AgentCore planted a full agentic-cloud stack, and...
Amazon opened its Seller Central APIs to authorized outside agents via a Claude and Amazon Quick plugin — days after blocking Meta's Muse agent — while Google shipped a managed-agents update with new Files and Credentials APIs for MCP and third-party auth. The through-line: platform gatekeeping and sco...