Runtime
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Where the Guardrail Lives: Microsoft Bundles Governance In, Orca Keeps It Out
Microsoft's Agent Framework is in public preview, and its pitch is governance first: approvals, content safety, and audit logging delivered as part of the platform. The contrast is Orca, which keeps the guardrail outside the agent.
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The Agentic Runtime Splits: Governed Runtimes and the Local Inference Server
StreamNative's Orca makes governance a property of the runtime instead of a layer over it. Base Compute's Superfluid gives one laptop a scheduler for several agents. The two edges of the stack the control-plane story left out.
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Agents Are Becoming Actors: Inside Google's AX and the Agent Substrate
Google is treating each agent as a stateful actor that gets checkpointed, suspended, and resumed in under half a second. That mechanics, and the same-week split with LangChain's managed alternative, is the new ground below the control plane.