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AWS made AgentCore payments generally available on 18 August 2026 in 12 Regions. The pricing page says no additional charge, then bills an API that does not exist and omits both gas fees and a mandatory subscription.
Zendesk now writes two free tiers into its own rate card because containment is not resolution. Five conversational-AI patterns that cut support cost in 2026, and the deflection trap that erases the saving.
AWS Lambda MicroVMs went from 5 regions to 10 on 19 August 2026. The AWS pricing API shows Frankfurt and Singapore running about 26% above N. Virginia, and six of the ten regions sit on a 400 GB account quota.
Anthropic's browser use tool went GA on 19 August 2026. Declaring it costs about 6,600 input tokens per request against 4,500 for computer use, and its own docs contradict the release notes.
Salesforce's own pricing page bills an order-status ticket at $0.20 under Flex Credits and $2.00 under Conversations, and one org cannot use both. A build-versus-buy guide for D2C support in 2026.
OAuth 2.1 removes the local proxy from AWS MCP Server setups. It also removes per-call AWS profile switching, which is the one feature consultancies working across client accounts actually rely on.
Anthropic made computer use generally available on 19 August 2026 and shipped a browser use toolset alongside it. The migration changes the request shape, flips zoom on by default, stops downscaling oversized
On 20 August 2026 Cloudflare let users deselect optional scopes at consent. RFC 6749 has permitted narrower grants since 2012, and most OAuth clients still assume the full requested set was approved.
DeepSeek's V4 rate card now has two prices for every token. Peak hours are 01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00 UTC, off-peak is half, and one of the two peak blocks lands inside the Indian working day.
Perplexity's 13 August 2026 post gives Sonar 45 days, ending 27 September 2026. The migration guide names no date, the changelog names none, and the docs' benchmarks show 5.46x where the blog claims 7x.
AWS made Web Search on Amazon Bedrock generally available on 4 August 2026 and told buyers to check the pricing page for costs. The pricing page has no price. Worse, the default IAM policy grants search but not external
Slack gave assistant_view a death date on 20 August 2026 and replaced its methods with the Agent Sessions API. The manifest switch cannot be undone, it forces a Marketplace review for distributed apps, and the new
Outcome pricing at $0.99 a resolution costs 64 times the underlying model tokens. The published 2026 numbers, the resolution-rate denominator games, the Indic tokenisation tax, and the DPDP clause that should change
Runtime instances bill EC2 plus a 12% management fee, and 7.8% on G-series. Worked against AWS's published microVM rates, the crossover on an 8 vCPU shape lands near 24% sustained utilisation.
Chrome 149 opened the WebMCP origin trial and the docs were revised on 7 August 2026. What both APIs do, what the permissions model blocks, and the order to ship tools in.
CVE-2026-9198 chains two Langflow API endpoints into unauthenticated remote code execution on default deployments. IBM rates it CVSS 9.8, CISA calls it exploited, and the fix is a version bump plus three configuration
A2A reached 150 supporting organisations and a stable 1.0 specification in 2026, while MCP shipped a stateless protocol core on 28 July 2026. Most enterprise agent systems need only one of them. Here are five tests that
Editing the tools array mid-session invalidates the entire Claude prompt cache. The mid-conversation-tool-changes-2026-07-01 beta replaces that edit with two content blocks, and the price gap between a cache read and
GitHub shipped two Copilot cloud agent changes on 3 August 2026: a per-task reasoning level and automations that fire on issue or pull request comments. Both raise token spend, and GitHub's billing doc says nothing
Zendesk removes AI agents Essential and legacy bot builder on 10 December 2026, development ends 31 August. Rebuilds are manual, agents are now single-channel, and billing moved to resolution tiers in May.
Machine identities outnumber humans 109 to 1 and 12% of organisations have given AI agents privileged access to core systems. Okta's Permiso deal shows where agent identity governance is heading.
Gemini Enterprise now traces an agent call end to end, from the assistant prompt through the orchestration layer to the third-party API. Two new spans, a 30-day retention window and a $0.20 per million span meter decide
GoDaddy, Cloudflare and AWS now all register domains over an API, and coding agents can call them. The three purchase contracts differ in ways that decide whether a retry costs you nothing or charges you twice.
Amazon charges $7 per 1,000 web search queries, Microsoft $14 per 1,000 transactions and Google up to $35 per 1,000 grounded prompts. The same 200,000-query month costs $1,000 to $5,425.
OpenAI is deprecating Atlas and moving browser agents into ChatGPT and Codex. Atlas stops working on 9 August 2026, bookmarks and cookies do not transfer, and the browser stops receiving security updates.
Notion's hosted runtime leaves free beta on 11 August 2026 and starts drawing Notion credits at about $0.0023 per run. Here is the arithmetic, the volume at which the bill overtakes a $5 Cloudflare Workers subscription
OpenAI published ten new mathematical results on 1 August 2026, produced by an internal Astra model for roughly $2,000 in tokens. The transferable lesson is not the model: every result shipped with a machine-checkable
Gartner puts $234B of enterprise SaaS spend at risk from agentic arbitrage by 2030, and 97% of SaaS CEOs plan to drop seat pricing. Here is a practical framework to audit your stack, score each tool's exposure
The Azure OpenAI Assistants API stops working on August 26, 2026. Here is the migration to Microsoft Foundry Agent Service: the SDK change, threads to conversations, runs to responses, and which tools carry over.
Cloudflare's Agents SDK, Durable Object Facets and Dynamic Workflows make per-agent isolation and near-zero idle cost practical in 2026. A build guide with a decision table versus AWS Bedrock AgentCore and Vercel.
DBOS makes AI agents durable by checkpointing every step to Postgres, so a crashed agent resumes where it left off, no Temporal server. How it works, the July 2026 releases, code, and when Temporal still wins.
Enterprises run up to 660 SaaS apps, 53% of licenses sit idle, and Gartner puts $234B of SaaS spend at risk from agentic arbitrage by 2030. Here is how eCorpIT audits your stack, scores what to consolidate, and replaces
On August 1, 2026, Google Cloud began billing Semantic Governance Policies on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, charging evaluation-model tokens for every governed agent action. Here are the metered rates, a worked
Agent memory moved to production in 2026. Mem0 is a vector-first layer, Zep a temporal graph, Letta a stateful runtime, Cloudflare an edge service in beta. A pricing, benchmark and architecture comparison.
Gartner expects over 40% of agentic AI projects canceled by 2027 and MIT found 95% of gen AI pilots delivered no measurable P&L impact. Here is the scoping discipline that gets enterprise agents to production.
State-of-the-art function-calling agents still solve under 50% of real tasks and stumble on retries. A 2026 guide to evaluating LLM tool-use reliability with pass^k, tau-bench, BFCL, and your own eval harness.
On July 30, 2026 Oracle put Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and 3.5 Flash inside Fusion Applications and NetSuite. Here is what the multi-model move means for enterprise AI, data governance, vendor lock-in, and
Alibaba's Qwen3.7 Flash is the cheapest way into a 1M-token vision model, until you fill the window. Here is the tier-by-tier cost math against Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite and GPT-5.6 Luna for high-volume agents.
The protocol your agent's tools speak has a cost the usual API debate ignores: the tokens each schema burns inside the model's context. A 2026 decision guide across REST, GraphQL and gRPC, with token math, latency
Agentforce and Copilot Studio price AI agents in different units. We break down the conversation, Flex Credits and per-credit models, the break-even points, and the 2026 prerequisites that move the real bill.
Google Gemini 2.5 Computer Use, Anthropic's Claude computer-use tool and OpenAI computer-use-preview all drive real browser UIs in 2026. Compare price, OSWorld benchmarks, safety and environment support before you build.
A readiness checklist for governed autonomous desktop agents: sandboxed runtimes, least privilege, human approval gates, audit trails, and evaluation, mapped to the ServiceNow Project Arc and NVIDIA OpenShell stack.
HubSpot's Agent Hub and Agent Builder hit public beta on July 23, 2026. We compare buying pre-built Breeze agents against building custom RevOps agents on cost, control and data.
EY finds 30-50% of RPA projects fail and Forrester puts maintenance at up to 60% of cost. Computer-use agents read the screen instead of brittle selectors. Here is the 2026 cost, architecture and migration view
Shubham Saboo's Always-On Memory Agent stores memory in SQLite and consolidates it every 30 minutes with no embeddings. We compare it to RAG on cost, latency and scale, and when to drop the vector database.
GPT-Live listens and speaks at once, but the developer API is not live yet. A senior engineer's read on full-duplex voice, Realtime API pricing at $32/$64 per million tokens, and what to build now.
On July 27, 2026, NVIDIA and 36 partners launched the Open Secure AI Alliance and open-sourced the NOOA agent framework. Most of the tooling predates the alliance. Here is what is new, and a decision framework
On 14 July 2026 the Linux Foundation launched the x402 Foundation with 40 members, from AWS to Visa. We compare x402 to Google's AP2 and OpenAI's ACP, and give an adopt-now-versus-wait call by use case.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore moved every agent trace, prompt and log into a single per-agent CloudWatch log group and lifted default limits to 5,000 concurrent sessions. A config-level guide to the July 2026 observability
A cost breakdown of the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform in 2026: the seat editions, the per-million token rates, and the July-to-September billing dates for Skills Registry, Agent Gateway, Memory Bank and Sessions that
MCP's 2026-07-28 release candidate makes Tasks an official extension for long-running work. How a server returns a task handle and a client drives it with tasks/get, tasks/update and tasks/cancel.
Agent Builder and the Evals platform leave OpenAI on November 30, 2026, and the Assistants API sunsets August 26. How to choose among the Responses API, Chat Completions, the Agents SDK and AgentKit for new agents
Indian enterprises lead on moving AI agents to production, but governance lags. A build-and-govern playbook using Gartner's autonomy-level model and a production-readiness checklist, with an India lens on DPDP and cost.
On 7 July 2026 Google expanded Managed Agents in the Gemini API with background execution, remote MCP servers, custom functions and credential refresh. Here is what each feature does at the API level, working code
Google Cloud's GKE AI security blueprint (16 July 2026) sets a 3-layer, 3-phase model for securing AI and agent workloads on Kubernetes: Confidential Nodes, Model Armor, gVisor sandboxing and org-level policy.
The x402 protocol and Cloudflare's Monetization Gateway let APIs, SaaS and publishers charge AI agents per request in stablecoins. A 2026 guide to pricing models, setup, the HTTP 402 flow, and when to charge, block
A senior Android engineer's guide to making your app agent-ready in 2026: how AppFunctions and App Actions expose your features to Gemini, with Kotlin code, DPDP notes, and a rollout checklist.
A senior engineer's guide to AI agents for GTM teams in India: what to automate, 2026 pricing for HubSpot, Salesforce and Microsoft, build-vs-buy costs, DPDP guardrails, and a 90-day rollout.
Google's A2UI protocol went public on December 15, 2025, and Flutter's GenUI SDK uses it to let an AI agent compose real widgets from your catalog. This guide covers the architecture, working Dart code, the 'UI as data'
AI agents need a durable place to keep state, and Postgres is the default choice. This guide compares serverless Postgres (Databricks Lakebase and Neon) against self-managed Postgres on cost, branching, latency
GitHub made the Copilot SDK generally available on June 2, 2026, across six languages. This guide covers what it does, how to call it, how it compares to building your own agent loop, and what it costs to run.
AI agents are long-running, stateful and GPU-hungry, and standard Deployments fight them. Here is how Agent Sandbox, warm pools and Kubernetes DRA change the design in 2026, with configs and comparison tables.
OpenAI Presence is a limited-availability, Forward Deployed Engineer-led product with no list price. The Realtime API is self-serve with published rates. Three numbers, and one eligibility question, decide which path
Alibaba Cloud unveiled Agent Native Cloud at WAIC on 18 July 2026, adding AgentLoop and AgentTeams to AgentRun. Here is how the three big agent runtimes compare on billing, isolation, observability and lock-in.
Astryx, shadcn/ui and MUI now sit at 9.1k, 119k and 98.4k GitHub stars. Only one is Beta, only one has a price tag, and all three ship agent tooling. Here is the decision, with the numbers behind it.
AWS put Bedrock Agents Classic into maintenance mode on 30 July 2026. Existing agents keep running, but new accounts get a 403 and the model catalog freezes. Here is the capability-by-capability migration map
Google cut the Gemini Flash output rate from $9.00 to $7.50 per million tokens and made the model emit 17% fewer of them. Stack that against GPT-5.6 Luna at $1/$6 and Claude Sonnet 5's tokenizer change, and
Google announced information agents at I/O on 19 May 2026: background agents that scan blogs, news and social posts 24/7 and send users a synthesized update instead of a link. Here is the publisher response, including
MCP Apps shipped on 26 January 2026 as the first official MCP extension. Here is how the ui:// resource, the _meta.ui.resourceUri link, the sandbox CSP and the stateless 2026-07-28 core fit together.
VS Code 1.129 moved agent sessions into a dedicated process on 15 July 2026. Sessions now outlive the window that started them, which makes chat.agentHost.enabled a platform decision, not a user one.
ADK Python 2.0 went GA on 19 May 2026 and ADK Go 2.0 on 30 June 2026, both on a graph execution engine. How to choose between a workflow and an autonomous agent, with code and breaking changes.
Browser tools for GitHub Copilot in VS Code became generally available on 1 July 2026 and ship enabled by default. These are the settings, policies and rollout order that keep agent browsing contained.
The GitHub Copilot app went from technical preview to every Copilot plan on 7 July 2026, including Free and Education. The mechanism that makes parallel agents work is the git worktree.
Vendor posts say OpenTelemetry's GenAI client spans went stable in early 2026. The specification says Development on every page, which sits below Alpha. Here is what that means for your instrumentation.
On July 16, 2026, 1Password launched 1Password for Claude: a zero-exposure model that lets an AI agent complete logins and one-time codes while the secret never enters the model. Here is how it works.
Five agent frameworks hit production maturity by mid-2026: LangGraph 1.0, CrewAI, Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0, Pydantic AI V2 and LlamaIndex Workflows 1.0. Here is how to choose by your dominant constraint.
Prompt injection in agentic browsers like Atlas and Comet has no reliable fix, and Atlas stops working on 9 August 2026. Here is a rollout decision and 7 controls, from isolation to DLP, for security teams.
Buying an AI support agent costs roughly $0.99 to $2 per resolution; building one in India runs about Rs 8-20L plus API. This 2026 guide shows the real numbers, the resolution benchmarks that decide ROI, and
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is AWS's platform for production AI agents. Its Web Search tool reached GA on 17 June 2026 at $7 per 1,000 queries. Build a cited, web-grounded agent over MCP, with code and pricing.
MCP connects AI agents to your internal systems, and 78% of enterprise teams already run it. But 43% of public servers had command-injection flaws. What a production-grade custom MCP server needs in 2026, and how
Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 API launched at $1.25/$4.25 per million tokens, about a quarter of OpenAI and Anthropic rates. The real monthly cost math against GPT-5.6 and Claude, plus when switching your agents makes sense.
India's NPCI is designing a Unified Agent Protocol so AI agents can be registered and authorised to make UPI payments, pending RBI approval. For fintech teams, prep starts now: identity, limits and logs.
The 2026-07-28 MCP revision removes the initialize handshake and the protocol-level session, so any instance can serve any request. The maintainers say nothing switches off on 28 July.
Four vendors rebuilt their agent runtimes around the session in 2026, and they agree on routing but disagree on the compute primitive underneath. A comparison of AWS AgentCore, Azure AI Foundry, Google Agent Engine
LangChain's June 2026 survey of 1,340 practitioners found 89% run observability but only 52.4% run offline evals. Here is the four-gate CI setup that closes the gap.
Three vendors now sell an agent that takes a task and returns a finished document. They bill in three incompatible ways, and independent research says reliability still trails capability.
Agents do not crash. They return a confident, plausible, wrong answer, and nothing goes red. Gartner expects over 40% of agentic AI projects to be cancelled by the end of 2027. Here is what to instrument, what to score
MCP's 2026-07-28 spec is the largest revision since launch and it breaks things: the initialize handshake and Mcp-Session-Id are gone. Three ways to expose legacy systems to AI agents, and what each actually costs.
Eleven CVEs landed against Model Context Protocol implementations in April 2026, and Anthropic called the underlying STDIO behaviour expected. Here is what that means for anyone running MCP servers in production
On July 2, 2026, Mark Zuckerberg told Meta staff that AI agent progress had not accelerated as executives expected, after 8,000 layoffs and up to $145 billion of 2026 capex. Gartner puts agent pilot failure at 89%. Six
At Google Cloud Next '26, Vertex AI became the Gemini Enterprise agent platform. With 96% of firms running AI agents but only 12% able to govern them, here is what it changes and how it compares to Microsoft and AWS.
Meta shipped Muse Spark 1.1 on July 9, 2026, a 1M-token agentic model priced at a quarter of rival rates. It leads on tool use but trails on raw coding. What that means for how dev teams route work.
Enterprises are deploying AI agents fast, but 88% had an agent-related breach last year and only 21% have mature governance. eCorpIT's AI agent security service closes that gap with assessment, red teaming, guardrails
CVE-2025-3248 gave unauthenticated attackers code execution on Langflow, and it was not the last. How to harden Langflow, Flowise, and n8n: patching, network isolation, gateway auth, secrets, and sandboxing for AI
Google's Lighthouse 13.3 added an agentic browsing category on May 7, 2026, checking llms.txt, the WebMCP protocol, the accessibility tree and layout stability. Seven fixes to make your site AI-agent ready.
Unit 42 found AI accelerated attacks 4x in 2026, with the fastest intrusions reaching data in 72 minutes and identity behind nearly 90% of breaches. Here is what changed and how CTOs and security leaders should respond.
The majority of enterprise AI agent pilots never reach production, and Gartner expects over 40% cancelled by 2027, mostly for cost and governance reasons, not model quality. Here is how eCorpIT builds agents that ship
Microsoft's Service Agent reached general availability on 30 June 2026, with Sales Agent alongside. Here is what the Dynamics 365 and Copilot agents do, what they cost, and when to build instead.
Most AI agent projects fail on value, security and cost, not on the model. Here are five engineering lessons CTOs learn the hard way in 2026, backed by Gartner, MIT and OWASP data, from scoping ROI to controlling token
Building production AI agents taught three lessons the hard way: reliability comes from architecture, the model layer is a commodity you will swap, and evaluation is most of the work. Apple's third-generation Foundation
Most AI agent projects die between pilot and production. Five engineering delivery lessons for teams shipping production AI in 2026: scope narrow, fix the data first, make evaluation the plan, keep the model swappable
Most enterprise AI never reaches production, and much that does shows no measurable return. Five delivery lessons tied to what breaks between a working demo and a system real users trust in 2026.
Fewer than 15% of AI agent pilots reach production scale, and aggregate success sits near 57%. Five engineering lessons on evals, context, reliability, governance and token cost for founders shipping agents in 2026.
MIT's 2025 research found 95% of generative AI pilots deliver no measurable return despite $30-40 billion in spend. These seven engineering lessons, drawn from eCorpIT's delivery work, separate the AI projects that
Most enterprise AI agents never reach production, and quality kills a third that do. Five hard-won lessons from shipping production AI agents: scope, harness, observability, guardrails and human oversight.
JPMorgan runs 450+ AI use cases and IBM's AskHR contains 94% of queries, yet Gartner expects 40% of agentic projects canceled by 2027. Seven agent use cases that reached production in 2026, and three that stalled.
Gartner expects over 40% of agentic AI projects to be canceled by 2027, and production agents succeed about 56.6% of the time. Three engineering lessons from shipping enterprise AI agents in 2026.
AI customer service returns about $3.50 per $1, but a third of rollouts fail. Seven AI agent use cases driving real CX ROI in 2026, from autonomous resolution to churn prevention, each with its benchmark.
Gartner expects conversational AI to cut $80 billion in agent costs in 2026. Five conversational-agent patterns that cut support costs, the per-resolution economics, and where cost-only automation breaks.
AI agents are reaching production faster than the controls around them. The seven governance layers enterprises need before scaling agents in 2026, mapped to the EU AI Act, NIST, OWASP and DPDP.
The average enterprise runs 12 AI agents in 2026 and IBM expects over 1,600 per large company by year-end, yet only 18% keep a complete inventory. A practical guide to governing multi-agent sprawl.
