AWS made Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments generally available on August 18, letting AI agents autonomously pay for APIs, MCP servers, and paywalled content without a human approving each transaction. Built with Coinbase and Stripe Privy wallets, it handles the x402 protocol handshake whenever an agent hits an HTTP 402 response,

AWS has open-sourced Dogwood, a new policy language for governing what AI agents are allowed to do when they call tools. It builds on Cedar, the authorization language already used inside Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Policy, but adds something Cedar can't do on its own: reasoning about sequences of

NVIDIA has launched the Open Secure AI Alliance, whose inaugural partners include Microsoft, IBM, Red Hat, Cisco, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Databricks, Snowflake, GitHub, Hugging Face, Mistral, vLLM and the Linux Foundation. The stated goal is an open defence stack for AI agents — identity, isolation, safe weight formats, multi-model

Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30, and the significant part is not another benchmark race — it is the economics of running AI agents. The company positions Sonnet 5 as its most agentic mid-tier model yet: it plans, drives browsers and terminals, and completes multi-step work that until recently

At Think 2026, IBM moved digital sovereignty from policy to operations with the general availability of IBM Sovereign Core, a self-managed software platform for deploying and running AI and cloud workloads in environments governed entirely by the customer. The pitch is that sovereignty now reaches well beyond data residency: it