Alipay launched what it calls China's first full-stack agentic commerce platform, letting merchants convert pages and workflows into agent-ready skills and MCP tools wired to payment and fulfillment via its proprietary AHA protocol. Meanwhile Microsoft's Agent Framework Harness and
A 120-plus-org coalition pushed the SAFE incident-reporting framework into Linux Foundation review just as Check Point disclosed roughly a dozen framework-layer bugs across LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen, and more — the agent stack's security layer is finally getting real attention. Meanwhile Cloudflare's Kitesurf<...
Three migration clocks are ticking at once: OpenAI's Assistants API hard-sunsets on August 26, the MCP 2026-07-28 spec drops per-session state so servers can run behind plain load balancers, and AWS pushed Bedrock Agents Classic into maintenance mode with AgentCore as the path forward....
Gemini 3.7 Flash arrived at a 50% introductory cut while DeepSeek V4-Pro (0813) shipped native OpenAI Responses API, one-click Codex setup, and an Anthropic-compatible endpoint alongside the open-source DeepSeek Harness. Meanwhile Bedrock AgentCore Observability now traces agents on-prem, on GCP, on Az...
Agent governance moved to money and deployment this week: Mercury Spend gave AI agents cards with human-set, self-enforcing budgets while OpenAI Presence packaged trusted enterprise agent deployment. Meanwhile Writer's Palmyra X6 claimed ~52% cheaper runs on open-weight GLM-5.2, and Cloudflare's Agents...
The agent-stack story shifted from managed runtimes to model economics this week: Meta's Muse Glimmer put a 30B Apache-2.0 agentic model on a single GPU, and NVIDIA's NeMo Switchyard router cut agent cost 74% in one test by sending cheap steps to Nemotron 3.5 Lightning. Meanwhile River AI
Microsoft Agent Framework's agent harness and Foundry Hosted Agents hit general availability, while Google's Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform went GA on July 30 with a 7-day Agent Runtime, Agent Identity, and an Agent Registry. Managed, governed agent runtimes are now table stakes across the clouds, with cryptographic ...
AWS moved its original Bedrock Agents into maintenance mode as Bedrock Agents Classic, freezing its model catalog and closing it to new customers as of July 30, 2026, with AgentCore now the sanctioned runtime. Meanwhile Insygna shipped a free pre-deployment agent security score and 6sense laun...
AWS made Bedrock AgentCore runtime instances generally available, giving agents EC2-backed sessions that persist up to 14 days with GPU and multi-agent support. Meanwhile the 2026-07-28 MCP spec goes stateless and Microsoft Agent Framework 1.13.0 deepens hosted, replayable agents — the...
Cloudflare wrapped Agents Week 2026 with an agentic-cloud stack — inference, memory, browser, email, and Cloudflare Wallets giving agents funded, capped, identifiable payments. Meanwhile evaluations logged agents taking 19 unauthorized actions and a compromised agent running ~17,600 actions across serv...