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Coverage of AI agent launches, model releases, pricing, and security, with links to related software and agent profiles.
Baseten Sandboxes preserve state through standby
The new microVM runtime preserves files, memory, and processes in standby, but background jobs, durable storage, and credentials still need care.
OpenAI plans Pierre acquisition to bring Git storage into Codex
Trees and Diffs already power parts of Codex. Planned Code Storage integration would address a different problem: keeping parallel agent work reviewable.
MCP reference servers 2.0 speak the stateless 2026-07-28 spec, and break a few things for clients
Eight days after 1.0, the official MCP servers move to the v2 SDKs and answer both 2026-07-28 and 2025-era clients from one process. The TypeScript servers now require Node 24, and error handling changes in ways clients may notice.
Perplexity open-sources SPACE, the microVM sandbox behind Computer, with its red-team results attached
SPACE runs each agent in its own Firecracker microVM and keeps credentials and network policy outside it. Perplexity’s own testing found the VM boundary held, while the network rules needed fixing, a weakness it also reported in seven other sandbox platforms.
Vercel Drives reaches GA, giving sandboxed agents a workspace that outlives the sandbox
Persistent drives for Vercel Sandbox are now generally available on every plan. An agent’s files can follow it into a new sandbox, but only one sandbox can write to a drive at a time.
MCP reference servers reach 1.0, and fetch now blocks private addresses by default
The official MCP servers repository returns to semantic versioning with its last release on the 1.x SDK. The fetch server gains a guard against reaching internal hosts, filesystem writes change behavior, and outside pull requests are now closed.
OpenAI’s Decisions API enters public beta for fixed-answer agent routing
The new endpoint turns text and images into probabilities, categories or rubric scores. Its narrow output contract brings input-only billing to routing work, but evaluation and permissions remain the builder’s responsibility.
AG-UI 1.0 gives agent apps a stable contract for streams and approvals
CopilotKit’s frozen specification covers subagents, multimodal tool results and interrupted runs. Developers still need to distinguish wire compatibility from a drop-in SDK upgrade.
Pollen Robotics opened Microduck preorders at $399
The Hugging Face-branded robotics shop is selling a 25 cm, 15-motor biped. The useful part is the open MuJoCo-to-ONNX loop, not the quack.
OpenAI’s first chip is about inference economics, not just independence from Nvidia
OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño, OpenAI’s first custom AI inference chip. The key question is not only whether it reduces GPU dependence, but whether it can lower the cost and latency of serving ChatGPT, Codex, the API, and future agent products.