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Cognition CEO Scott Wu will deliver a keynote at Runtime, discussing async background agents and the future of agent design.
The Interactions API now supports background=True for async agent tasks, allowing long-running operations beyond HTTP timeouts. A guide explains usage, reconnection, and streaming.
A deep dive into building cloud agents with Walden Yan (Cognition) and Cole Murray (OpenInspect), covering VM setup, computer use, memory, and the rise of async agents in the AI engineering landscape.
The article argues that AI agents are shifting from synchronous chat interfaces to asynchronous background workflows, highlighting new features from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Cursor that decouple agent lifetimes from HTTP request-response cycles.