Bedrock AgentCore Payments goes GA: agents can now buy APIs and data
The overnight builder roundup: pay-per-call agents ship to production, plus ZDR safety monitoring, GPT-5.6 Sol at 14x, and Copilot in Slack and Teams.
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Agents that pay their own way
AgentCore Payments is GA: agents autonomously discover and pay for paid APIs, MCP servers, and content in a few lines of code, using Coinbase or Stripe Privy wallets. Payment limits are enforced at the infrastructure layer and the 'upto' scheme enables pay-per-inference, so you can ship a metered agent that buys tools on demand without hand-rolling billing.
ZDR that still catches abuse
OpenAI previewed Private Safety Processing: cross-interaction safety monitoring that runs while Zero Data Retention stays on, with your content kept on your own infrastructure or under your own encryption keys. If compliance kept you off the frontier API, this removes the privacy-versus-safety trade-off, and rollout plus technical docs land in September.
GPT-5.6 Sol, up to 14x faster
Ultrafast mode is in API preview, running GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14x standard speed for a select group, with access widening as capacity grows. That is the latency headroom for real-time voice agents and interactive coding loops the standard tier could not reach.
Copilot moves into the group chat
GitHub shipped an agentic Copilot experience in Slack plus shared agentic work in Microsoft Teams, letting you kick off and track Copilot tasks from where your team already talks. It lands days after Slack's own Code launch: the chat window is fast becoming the agent console.