Philipp Schmid of Google DeepMind introduces the Gemini Interactions API, a unified interface for models and agents with server-side state and long-running jobs. He then shows managed cloud sandboxes for Antigravity agents that persist, can be shared, and automatically pick up skills and AGENTS.md files, closing with a live AI talk radio demo built from a single prompt.
Lance Martin from Anthropic shares insights into building reliable and secure long-horizon agents with Claude. He details architectural principles like decoupling the 'brain' from the 'hands' for reliability and security, implementing independent verifiers for self-correction, and developing advanced self-learning memory systems akin to human memory's in-band writing and offline 'dreaming' consolidation. The talk concludes with a vision for evolving agent harnesses towards organizational-level, proactive, and multiplayer capabilities.