Changing an agent’s tools now has a cache bill and a replay contract
OpenAI and Anthropic changed how long-running agents preserve cached context, tools, and reasoning, turning configuration edits and model swaps into state migrations.
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Reliability
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September 2026
Gemini Live can keep talking while its tools are still running
Google's non-blocking tool calls let a voice conversation continue before an external action finishes, forcing applications to separate dialogue from business completion.
Siemens put about 50 rules behind its lead-qualification agent
A production sales workflow shows how bounded autonomy can work in practice, while an Agents API outage and a reversed model retirement expose two operational dependencies teams need to design around.