Agent SubstrateAgent Substrate on GKE Drops Database and MCP Connections at Suspend
Google says Agent Substrate 1.0 is GA on GKE at no extra charge and is donating it to the CNCF. The docs require GKE Standard 1.37+, rule out GPU passthrough and drop every open connection at suspend.
November 9, 2026 · 12 min readMistral StudioMistral Studio Self-Hosted Agents Send State and Traces to Mistral
Mistral's Studio managed agents, workflows and apps launched November 5 as a Mistral-hosted public preview with no price. Self-hosted agents still leave session state and traces with Mistral, and apps run only on Mistral Cloud.
November 7, 2026 · 9 min readAssistants APIYour Assistants API Dies Aug 26. Azure's Exit Is Different.
OpenAI and Microsoft both retire the Assistants API on August 26, 2026 — into two incompatible successors. Neither migrates your threads, and OpenAI's own guide warns that the Prompt objects it recommends are deprecated too.
August 11, 2026 · 13 min readMistralWhy Temporal Lost to Mistral in the $2B AI Orchestration War
Mistral launches Workflows on Temporal's durable execution. ASML, CMA-CGM, La Banque Postale already running millions of daily executions in production.
May 3, 2026 · 12 min read