OpenAI Agents API: US-only residency, your Azure options
OpenAI's Agents API, in public beta since 10 September, packages the Codex harness as a managed runtime with no platform fee, but its documentation limits data residency to the United States and rules out zero data retention even with a self-hosted sandbox. A side-by-side with Claude Managed Agents and Foundry hosted agents, with Sweden Central retail rates, shows runtime cost is a rounding error and residency and identity decide the choice.
Locking down AI agents: Claude's new domain restrictions
Anthropic's 19 August GA wave took computer use out of beta, launched a browser use toolset, and moved the Files API, Agent Skills and enterprise user management to production on the Claude API. The same release added allowed_domains and blocked_domains restrictions for agent web tools: how the matching rules work, when to allowlist versus blocklist, and what the controls mean for EU governance.