AgentVet Weekly

The latest in agentic and applied AI, every week. 14 past issues below.

Past issues

• August 31, 2026

  AgentVet Weekly — August 31, 2026

  The story I can't stop thinking about this week is WebMCP. Google and Microsoft published it under the W3C in February, and Chrome already ships an early version: a site registers typed tools an agent

• August 24, 2026

  AgentVet Weekly — August 24, 2026

  What's jumping out at me this week is how fast "the user is an agent" went from thought experiment to line item. Stripe just paid $8B for OpenRouter on that exact bet, and Cloudflare spent its whole A

• August 17, 2026

  AgentVet Weekly — August 17, 2026

• August 10, 2026

  AgentVet Weekly — August 10, 2026

  The through-line this week is infrastructure maturing fast enough to change what agents can actually do in production: LLM 0.32 quietly shipped reasoning traces, server-side tool execution, and redesi

• August 3, 2026

  AgentVet Weekly — August 3, 2026

  The MCP protocol matured significantly this week with the stateless 2.0 spec, and I keep coming back to the same question it raises: if tool-calling infrastructure is finally stabilizing, the real con

• July 27, 2026

  AgentVet Weekly — July 27, 2026

  The story I keep coming back to this week isn't the OpenAI sandbox escape — as dramatic as that is — it's the quieter signal underneath it: prompt injection resistance is now being treated as a first-

• July 20, 2026

  AgentVet Weekly — July 20, 2026

  The story I keep returning to this week isn't any single model drop, it's the competitive pressure quietly reshaping what vendors are willing to give away for free. Anthropic making Fable 5 permanent,

• July 13, 2026

  AgentVet Weekly — July 13, 2026

  The story this week isn't really about GPT-5.6's three-tier naming scheme or Claude going mobile — it's about infrastructure catching up to ambition. When a cloud provider's CTO is reframing their ent

• July 6, 2026

  AgentVet Weekly — July 6, 2026

  The throughline this week is measurement: builders are no longer just shipping agents, they're developing the scaffolding, benchmarks, and prompt-optimization pipelines needed to know whether those ag

• June 29, 2026

  AgentVet Weekly — June 29, 2026

  The story I keep returning to this week isn't any single product launch — it's the convergence of inference-layer investment and agent deployment infrastructure. OpenAI betting on custom silicon while

• June 22, 2026

  AgentVet Weekly — June 22, 2026

  What's jumping out at me this week is how fast the 'is this agent actually useful?' question is getting answered in production — not in demos. From chemistry labs running near-autonomous synthesis age

• June 15, 2026

  AgentVet Weekly — June 15, 2026

  The story of the week isn't really the Claude Fable 5 launch — it's what the launch revealed about the gap between how AI labs set policy and how builders actually work. Anthropic quietly baked in sab

• June 8, 2026

  AgentVet Weekly — June 8, 2026

  The thread I keep pulling on this week is trust boundaries, who controls what an agent can touch, and how the platforms hosting those agents are starting to encode that into their architecture. GitHub

• June 3, 2026

  AgentVet Weekly — June 3, 2026

  The throughline I keep coming back to this week is containment — not just technical sandboxing, but the broader question of what it actually costs, in dollars and in control, to let agents run. Anthro