OpenAI Extends the Responses API to Serve as a Foundation for Autonomous Agents

OpenAI announced they are extending the Responses API to make it easier for developer to build agentic workflows, adding support for a shell tool, a built-in agent execution loop, a hosted container workspace, context compaction, and reusable agent skills.

Google Open Sources Experimental Multi-Agent Orchestration Testbed Scion

Designed to manage concurrent agents running in containers across local and remote compute, Scion is an experimental orchestration testbed that enables developers to run groups of specialized agents with isolated identities, credentials, and shared workspaces.

How Slack Manages Context in Long-running Multi-agent Systems

To sustain productivity in long-running agent systems, Slack engineers moved away from accumulating chat logs and started using structured memory, validation, and distilled truth to maintain coherence and accuracy of long-running agent systems.

Google New TPU Generation is Specifically Designed for Agents and SOTA Model Training

Google has unvelied a new generation of Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), featuring two specialized chips designed to accelerate model training and agent workflows, which require continuous, multi-step reasoning, and action loops distributed across multiple models. The new TPUs deliver better performance, memory, and energy efficiency, the company says.

Coder Agents Enable Running AI Coding Workflows on Self-Hosted Infrastructure

Coder Agents is a model-agnostic platform designed to let organizations run AI coding agents on their own infrastructure, rather than relying on cloud-based services. This allows teams to maintain full control over code, data, and execution environments.