Tools·185 stories·Updated October 5, 2026
More from Tools
Tools
Microsoft ships .NET SDK for AG-UI protocol
Microsoft released a first-class .NET SDK for the AG-UI protocol on September 25, 2026, and refactored its Agent Framework to depend on shared AGUI packages instead of maintaining its own implementati
Tools
IAB Tech Lab publishes AAMP 3.0 with agent-readable ad spec
IAB Tech Lab released AAMP 3.0 on September 22, 2026, introducing OpenProposal, a standardized specification that enables agents to exchange advertising proposals in a machine-readable format. The spe
Launches
IBM updates watsonx Orchestrate with agent controls and observability
IBM published a technical update for watsonx Orchestrate on October 1, 2026, introducing stronger governance, observability, and builder controls designed to improve agent planning accuracy and runtim
Tools
Glean adds six MCP server templates for agents
Glean released six new remote Model Context Protocol server templates on October 1, 2026, expanding agent access to maps, finance, advertising, meetings, and databases. The templates—GIS Cloud, Lightr
Launches
OpenAI launches Agents API with computer use in public beta
OpenAI released its Agents API in public beta on September 10, 2026, introducing computer use capabilities that let developers build autonomous agents capable of interacting with software through user
Launches
Microsoft ships MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming and voice models
Microsoft AI released MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, a low-latency real-time transcription model supporting 60 languages, alongside two new text-to-speech variants MAI-Voice-2.1 and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash o
Launches
Google Cloud ships Always-On Memory Agent reference
Google Cloud released the Always-On Memory Agent reference implementation on September 30, 2026, in its generative-ai repository. The agent uses an orchestrator pattern with three sub-agents—Ingest, C
Tools
NVIDIA releases Open Agent Safety Platform
NVIDIA announced the Open Agent Safety Platform on September 28, 2026, an open reference design for enforcing AI agent safety through governance and control across the hardware and software systems th
Research
Sierra open-sources Hyper-τ-Bench for agent construction
Sierra released Hyper-τ-Bench on September 8, 2026, a benchmark that evaluates whether AI coding agents can not only act as agents but also construct them. The open-source evaluation places a develope
Research
MIT, Sakana AI cut coding-agent eval costs with SIFT framework
Researchers at MIT and Sakana AI have released Self-Improvement via Fast Tree-Search (SIFT), a framework that uses an LLM judge to dramatically reduce evaluation costs for self-improving coding agents
Tools
Tuskira releases open-source AI Agent Gateway
Tuskira launched an open-source, self-hosted AI Agent Gateway on October 1, 2026, giving teams the ability to observe, govern, and switch between language models and MCP tools without reconfiguring th
Launches
Bloomberg Launches Enterprise MCP for AI Agent Data Access
Bloomberg announced Enterprise MCP on September 29, 2026, a standardized Model Context Protocol interface that lets enterprise AI agents discover, understand, and retrieve licensed Bloomberg data in p
Launches
AWS ships AgentCore runtime for 14-day agent sessions
Amazon Web Services announced on September 9, 2026, that AgentCore Runtime instances can execute agents on dedicated Amazon EC2 compute for sessions lasting up to 14 days, and that AgentCore Payments
Launches
DigitalOcean launches Managed Agents with tool access
DigitalOcean released Managed Agents in public preview on September 22, 2026, giving developers a managed platform to create agent sessions and govern access to 16,000+ tools through Action Gateway. T
Tools
MCP protocol goes stateless in July 2026 spec update
The Model Context Protocol finalized its 2026-07-28 specification on July 28, 2026, removing session handshakes and headers to simplify deployments. Tier-1 SDKs have begun shipping support for the sta
Research
DeltaSelect: Cheaper A/B Testing for Coding Agents
A new open-source method published on arXiv September 17 aims to reduce the cost of benchmarking coding agents during development. DeltaSelect uses task selection and statistical correlation to fit pe