Startup Ando exited stealth Thursday with a messaging platform positioned as an alternative to Slack, giving AI agents their own identities and inboxes so they can join channels, DMs and calls alongside human coworkers. Founder Sara Du said the app lets agents browse and join conversations, contribute to ongoing work, and message humans directly when needed, without a person relaying information between the agent and the team.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-24
OpenAI has released an Agents API that gives developers programmatic access to its Codex agent harness, handling session management, orchestration, context compaction and recovery on OpenAI's servers. Applications supply tools and choose an execution environment, including an OpenAI-hosted sandbox where agents can run code, edit files, and connect to MCP servers. Billing follows standard model, tool, and container rates, and OpenAI has published sample use cases like incident-response bots and GitHub issue investigators.
developers.openai.com
· 2026-09-10