InfoQ has launched a series by industry practitioners that treats agentic AI architecture as a new kind of software architecture likely to dominate for years. The articles cover its components and the trends shaping it as it goes mainstream.
OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol migrates 86.6% of the COBOL programs in its test with byte-identical output, against 5.4% for GPT-5.6 Sol, at 61% of the API cost. ActuIA notes the test was designed and scored by OpenAI and is unpublished, and that on Vals AI's independent code migration benchmark the model ranks fourth of 26, behind Claude Sonnet 5.5, Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra.
At GTC Berlin, NVIDIA is showing its full range of local AI hardware: RTX Spark for personal agents on Windows PCs, DGX Spark for developers on Linux and DGX Station for enterprise teams. A Windows version of DGX Station is due in December.
Pigment has raised $250 million from EQT and other investors at a $2.3 billion valuation. The money will speed up work on Graphite and its AI agents.
Hermes Agent 0.22.3 is a patch release that bundles roughly 620 merged pull requests since the previous version into a stable build for the CLI, the Microsoft Store app, Docker and Hermes Cloud. Among the changes, MCP progress notifications now appear as live tool progress and the classic command-line layout has been refreshed; detailed notes are promised with version 0.23.0.
NVIDIA says demand from AI-native companies is accelerating Europe's AI cloud market. Its cloud partners in Europe, the Nordics, Africa and Central Asia are adding regional compute so developers can work closer to their data and serve open models.