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AI agents grow up: persistent identities and permissions land in major platforms
Grok, Claude, and Hermes now support persistent agent identities with durable, scoped permissions across sessions. According to The New Stack, leadin...
Agents need ops: stop running them like scripts
Agent builders are shifting from laptop demos to production-grade services with serverless endpoints, hardened workers, and real spend/health guardrai...
OpenAI trims GPT 5.6 Sol pricing by 20% — re-baseline your token budgets
OpenAI cut GPT 5.6 Sol API pricing by 20%, but teams should tighten token budgets instead of loosening them. OpenAI’s forum announcement points to a ...
Router wars: orchestration now beats raw model choice
Model outcomes are shifting from choosing an LLM to how you route and wrap it. [Stripe and Ramp are building in-house LLM routers](https://thenewstac...
OpenInference evals add OpenAI Agents SDK support and skill-level checks (strands-agents/evals v1.2.0)
strands-agents/evals v1.2.0 adds OpenAI Agents SDK support and skill-level evaluators to tighten observability for AI agents. The latest [strands-age...
MCP grows up: Docker’s Toolkit and ecosystem updates make agent workflows deployable
Agent infrastructure is consolidating around MCP with real tooling that ops teams can run, monitor, and standardize. Docker put a GUI on MCP inside D...
DSpark lands in llama.cpp: 2–3x faster on‑device decode for LFM2.5
LiquidAI’s LFM2.5 draft models add DSpark speculative decoding with upstream llama.cpp support, delivering big throughput gains for local and edge inf...
Encrypted prompt injection makes Grok leak user data; agents parsing messy HTML widen the blast radius
Researchers showed that encrypted prompt injections bypass LLM guardrails and can make Grok exfiltrate user data. A new attack dubbed “Cryptographic ...
OpenAI tightens frontier-model safety: ~20% monitoring overhead and a zero‑retention safety preview
OpenAI changed how risky model runs are monitored and previewed zero‑retention, multi‑session misuse detection for enterprises. OpenAI detailed a mul...
Stripe buys OpenRouter: multi‑model LLM routing goes merchant‑grade
Stripe bought OpenRouter to bake multi‑model LLM routing and failover into its payments‑scale platform. OpenRouter built a single API to call models ...
Codex 0.149.0 brings an agents dashboard, a session queue, and sturdier sessions
OpenAI Codex 0.149.0 ships an agents dashboard, a session queue, and sturdier TUI/WebRTC behavior. The [0.149.0 release](https://github.com/openai/co...
WindsurfAPI 3.9.24–3.9.26: safer OpenAI-compat proxy, real aborts, stricter defaults, and saner token handling
WindsurfAPI’s 3.9.24–3.9.26 patches harden its OpenAI-compatible proxy with metadata filtering, true client aborts, stricter defaults, and robust toke...
AI Coding Partners Are Reshaping Teams, Reviews, and Architecture
AI coding agents are pushing teams toward smaller pods and new review habits as Google positions them to work like embedded engineers. Google Cloud s...
Post-training is doing the heavy lifting: GLM-5.3 jumps without new pretraining
Z.ai's GLM-5.3 delivered big coding and security gains from post-training alone, signaling a shift from retraining to smarter distillation. GLM-5.3 u...
Multi-turn attacks are beating AI agents — start testing like an adversary
Multi-turn social engineering is quietly defeating AI agents, and a new test method shows why our single-prompt checks miss it. EPFL introduced STING...
Truefoundry’s TrueForge launches as open-source rival to Claude Managed Agents
Truefoundry launched TrueForge, an open-source agent runtime competing with Claude Managed Agents, as enterprises push real AI agents into production....
Serverless Spark grows up; inference economics shift to orchestration, not hardware
Google Cloud unified Spark into a managed serverless service with Gemini troubleshooting and cost caps, as research shows orchestration beats raw scal...
Codex goes async; Agents SDK hardens guardrails — design for concurrency and fail-closed
Codex now continues coding while it waits for your input, and the Agents JS SDK tightened guardrail replay to fail closed. Per The New Stack, Codex a...
External memory and KV-cache tricks are reshaping LLM serving
LLM serving is shifting work out of the model to slash tokens, memory, and tail latency. Recent research shows two big moves: push retrieval outside ...
MCP transport shift: stdio vs Streamable HTTP, and stricter stdout rules
Model Context Protocol replaced HTTP+SSE with Streamable HTTP and enforces strict stdio logging rules that many guides still get wrong. If you run MC...
Hyperscalers Bank AI Growth as Top Researchers Exit to Startups
Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud posted surging AI-driven growth while top AI builders left Big Tech to launch startups. WebProNews reports a w...
Copilot SDK adds rewindable sessions for safer, debuggable agents
GitHub Copilot SDK now lets you rewind session history with file-change tracking across all SDKs. [v1.0.11-preview.2](https://github.com/github/copil...
LLM API reasoning-trace leak fixed; real agent breaches show your logs are part of the attack surface
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google fixed API flaws that exposed hidden reasoning traces and secrets, while real agent breaches show urgency to harden logs ...