The Open Responses specification has joined the Agentic AI Foundation with AWS engineering and governance support. Based on OpenAI’s Responses API, it standardises model calls, streaming, tool use and conversation state across providers. Amazon Bedrock already supports the format across dozens of models, allowing OpenAI SDK applications to switch endpoints with fewer code changes.
AWS releases Infinity runtime for agents that spend most of their time waiting
AWS and UC Berkeley have released Infinity as an Apache 2.0 research runtime for extreme agent concurrency. Instead of holding a process while a model waits on tools, approvals or events, Infinity saves conversation state, suspends the agent and resumes it later. The approach targets durable, event-driven workloads with far lower idle resource overhead.
OpenClaw details Microsoft contributions to its upstream agent runtime
OpenClaw has detailed upstream work by Microsoft contributors, including policy-conformance checks, native Windows chat and approvals, sandbox integration, routing tests, secret redaction and reliability fixes. The 25 September post accompanies Microsoft’s Autopilot announcement but concerns improvements available to the wider OpenClaw project. Operators should test each capability and distinguish individual contributions from guaranteed Autopilot features.
NVIDIA Helps Launch Open Alliance for Secure AI Agents
NVIDIA and roughly 40 technology organisations have formed the Open Secure AI Alliance to develop shared, open defences for AI agents and software. NVIDIA is contributing models, data and its new NOOA agent-harness research project, although delivery and governance details remain limited.