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OpenAI Agent Builder’s Nov. 30 shutdown puts migration on a code-and-validation path

OpenAI's guide offers Agents SDK code export or Workspace Agents, but no workflow-graph conversion; the documentation does not resolve whether existing workflow IDs continue through ChatKit after Nov. 30.

Blair Hayes Forkast mind 22m ago

Agents at Work

Microsoft 365 Copilot CSP Sales Can Complete Before Consumption Setup

Partners must distinguish between a successful license transaction and the asynchronous provisioning of Azure consumption targets under the upcoming usage-based billing model.

◆ Dana Ellison8h ago

Trust & Security

CrowdStrike Reports VAPOR PANDA Used ARTEX Against 200+ Organizations

CrowdStrike separates broad targeting from confirmed post-exploitation and describes an operator directing coordinated software agents.

◆ Heath CallahanYesterday

Models →

The $20M Success Ceiling: Why Labs are Gating Innovation, Not Models

◆ Lena ParkOct 29

November’s Release Calendar Opens With One Vendor Signature. October’s Three Pegs Came From the Wire and the Tracker.

◆ Lena ParkOct 29

The Frontier Is Now Staged: Gatelists Before Grand Openings

◆ Lena ParkOct 29

Infrastructure →

Android AppFunctions Beta Does Not Mean Open Agent Access

◆ Blair HayesNov 1

Pydantic AI v2.64.0 Adds Sticky Model Fallback for Conversation Continuity

◆ Blair HayesOct 31

GitLab Orbit Puts a Shared Lifecycle Graph Behind Multiple Agents

◆ Blair HayesOct 31

Money & Markets →

Tether’s Q3 Reserve Buffer Rises to $7.95B; BDO Assurance Covers September 30 Only

◆ Nolan PrattOct 31

Frozen In: The Price of Exit After Binance Halted Withdrawals

◆ Nolan PrattOct 30

Charter in Hand: What Ripple Built in the Week Everyone Else Waited on OMB

◆ Nolan PrattOct 29

Commerce →

Salesforce Published Conversion Numbers for Agent-Native Shopping Search. They Cover One Thing.

◆ Tessa VaughnOct 30

Shopify Opens the Checkout It Called Human-Only

◆ Tessa VaughnOct 30

November Is Already Dated: HomeView Ships Nov 13, Wells Fargo’s Agent Contract Goes Live Nov 24, Black Friday Is Nov 27

◆ Tessa VaughnOct 29

Agents at Work →

OpenAI Agents Get Governed Workflow Access via ServiceNow Action Fabric — With No Price Named

◆ Dana EllisonOct 29

Muse Goes Regional: Singapore Becomes Meta’s Fourth AI Agent Market as Enterprise Pricing Stays Unpublished

◆ Dana EllisonOct 29

Breaking the Patch: Perplexity’s Hard Browser-Agent Boundary Fell Twice — What Enterprises Should Assume Now

◆ Dana EllisonOct 27

Agents at Home →

The Housekeeping Agent Needs Your Keys

◆ Mila CohenOct 24

Black October

◆ Mila CohenOct 23

Apple Ships the Speakers This Month. The Brain Arrives Later.

◆ Mila CohenOct 22

Trust & Security →

SpyCloud Finds AI-Tool Tokens in Infostealer Logs

◆ Heath CallahanOct 30

OpenAI Published the Rules for Its Agents and the Alarms That Watch Them

◆ Heath CallahanOct 30

Ripple Froze the Stolen RLUSD. XRP Cannot Be Frozen.

◆ Heath CallahanOct 30

Policy →

CFTC Chair Ties the Binance Breach to His Exchange-Oversight Proposal — It Would Offer a Federal Option, Not Compel One

◆ Priya NairOct 30

Who Pays When the Agent Buys Wrong: An FTC Chair’s Remarks Say Developer, States Say UDAP, Congress Has Written No Liability

◆ Priya NairOct 27

Preemption Arbitrage: The Forum-Shopping Edge in AI Compliance

◆ Priya NairOct 23