agent-infrastructure

Managed Agents in 2026: Gemini API, Remote MCP, and Background Tasks

The managed-agent layer matured in July 2026 — background tasks and remote MCP make "the platform runs your agent" real. Here's what changed and when managed beats self-hosting.

07/11/2026 · Industry Trends · 10 min read

Remote MCP and the Rise of Hosted MCP Servers

Remote MCP is moving the Model Context Protocol from local stdio to the cloud. Here's what remote MCP is, how hosted MCP servers work, and why Google shipping remote MCP the same week a YC startup launched “MCP Cloud” matters.

07/08/2026 · Industry Trends · 7 min read

Better Models, Worse Tools: Why AI Agents Still Feel Dumb in 2026

Frontier models keep getting smarter, yet the agents built on them still feel brittle. Here's why the bottleneck moved from model quality to tooling — and what that means for anyone shipping agents.

07/06/2026 · Industry Trends · 7 min read

Are AI Agents Overhyped? What Zuckerberg's "Slower Than Hoped" Admission Really Means

Mark Zuckerberg told Meta staff that AI agents haven't progressed as fast as he'd hoped. Here's what's real, what's stuck, and where agents already deliver value in 2026.

07/03/2026 · Industry Trends · 6 min read

OpenClaw Mobile: How to Set It Up on Android and iOS (v2026.6.11 Guide)

OpenClaw is finally on Android and iOS. Here's how to set it up via the OpenClaw Gateway, which messaging channels it supports, and what the v2026.6.11 reliability release fixes.

07/02/2026 · AI Tutorials · 6 min read

Can Your AI Agent Keep a Secret? A 2026 Guide to Agent Data Leakage and Real Evaluation

AI agent security is now an evaluation problem: agents can leak private data through ordinary-looking tool calls and still pass every leaderboard. Here's how data leakage happens, how to red-team it, and how to benchmark whether an agent is actually reliable on your own tools.

06/21/2026 · Model Evaluation · 11 min read

A2A Protocol Explained: How Agents Talk to Other Agents

A live community thread asking "is anyone using A2A?" shows builders are still orienting in the agent-protocol landscape. Here's a vendor-neutral explainer of what the A2A protocol is, the problem it solves, and how it fits alongside MCP — grounded in the official spec.

06/21/2026 · Research · 8 min read