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July 8, 2026

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

  1. Tencent Hunyuan-HY3

    hy.tencent.com

    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.

  2. Expanding Managed Agents in Gemini API

    blog.google

    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.

  3. MCP vs API: Why traditional APIs are failing AI agents

    youtube.com

    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.

  4. Chinese AI models are gaining ground with U.S. companies as OpenAI, Anthropic costs surge

    cnbc.com

    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.