# News: July 8, 2026

> 4 curated links on AI agents, Python, security, Google Cloud, and engineering, selected by Médéric Hurier.

- Author: [Médéric Hurier (Fmind)](https://www.fmind.dev/)
- Published: 2026-07-08
- URL: https://www.fmind.dev/news/2026-07-08/

- [Tencent Hunyuan-HY3](<https://hy.tencent.com/research/hy3>): Tencent has officially released the Hunyuan-HY3 foundation model under the Apache 2.0 license, a 295-billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts language model featuring 21 billion active parameters and a 256K context window.
- [Expanding Managed Agents in Gemini API](<https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/expanding-managed-agents-gemini-api>): Google has introduced major updates to Managed Agents in the Gemini API, enabling asynchronous background task execution, remote Model Context Protocol server support, and server-side context caching via the Interactions API.
- [MCP vs API: Why traditional APIs are failing AI agents](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=185XGEMefgc>): This Google Cloud video explains how the Model Context Protocol solves the integration and discovery limitations of traditional APIs by offering a standardized, plug-and-play framework for AI agents.
- [Chinese AI models are gaining ground with U.S. companies as OpenAI, Anthropic costs surge](<https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/07/chinese-ai-models-costs-us-openai-anthropic.html>): Chinese AI models from developers like DeepSeek are increasingly attracting U.S. businesses as highly competitive, cost-effective alternatives to more expensive frontier systems from OpenAI and Anthropic.