On August 20, 2026, Google's Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol joined the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), the Linux Foundation-directed body that already governs Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP), unify…
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) published its 2026 roadmap, outlining five priority areas including agent identity and progressive discovery, and announced a governance shift to working groups under …
Google's A2A protocol formally joined the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) on August 20, 2026, placing it alongside Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) under a single governance umbrella backed by ma…
The Linux Foundation's Mike Dolan has submitted the OpenMDW (Open Model, Data, and Weights) license to the Open Source Initiative (OSI) for approval, aiming to clarify licensing for the distribution o…
Coding agents are overturning Joel Spolsky's 25-year-old 'never rewrite' rule, as regenerating code becomes cheaper than reviewing it, according to an essay by Seoul-based developer Hichoi-Dev. The ne…
Salesforce made its hosted MCP servers generally available to all Enterprise Edition orgs by April 2026, enabling any AI client to query a CRM in plain English, a milestone in the protocol's rapid evo…
The Agent2Agent protocol has joined the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation, alongside the Model Context Protocol (MCP), a governance change that consolidates key agent interoperability s…
Block Inc. has open-sourced Berd, a desktop application for working with AI agents across projects, skills, tools, and models, designed to give agents distinctive visual identities to make them more a…
Agent2Agent (A2A), the open standard for inter-agent communication, is joining the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) as a hosted project, backed by over 150 organizations and running in production across s…
AGENTS.md, an open format for coding-agent project context now read automatically by 23 tools, has been shown by three research groups to double as an instruction-injection vector for credential theft…
Google released A2A, a protocol for agent-to-agent communication, in April 2025, and donated it to the Linux Foundation within three months, where AWS, Cisco, Microsoft, Salesforce, SAP, and ServiceNo…
Cloudflare announced Cloudflare Wallets and cloudflare.pay on August 4, 2026, giving AI agents programmable, two-tier wallets with spending caps and verifiable identities, built on the x402 protocol. …
UC Berkeley Haas research in the California Management Review proposes the Agentic Operating Model (AOM), a four-layer framework (Cognitive, Coordination, Control, Governance) to make AI agents govern…
Google has contributed its Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A) to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), a move aimed at standardizing agent-to-agent interoperability. The protocol, launched in April 2025 and backe…
Fivetran's acquisitions of Tobiko Data and dbt Labs have consolidated ownership of two major open-source SQL transformation frameworks, SQLMesh and dbt Core. Contrary to fears of license tightening, b…
The Linux kernel community is debating the role of large language models (LLMs) in development, with over 1,200 commits carrying Assisted-by tags as of 7.2-rc4, but many developers question the tag's …
AI agents have initiated 14 million transfers through the x402 protocol over the past 30 days, with the broader ecosystem processing 75 million transactions and $24 million in volume, according to the…
A new arXiv study, 'Exposed by Design,' found more than 21,000 Model Context Protocol (MCP) server instances reachable from the public internet, with 91.8% of audited servers lacking OAuth and 687 too…
More than 21,000 internet-facing Model Context Protocol (MCP) server instances are exposed, with 91.8% of 640 audited production servers lacking OAuth authentication, according to research published i…
The Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol reached 150 organizations in production use as of April 2026, with native support from AWS Bedrock AgentCore, Azure AI Foundry, and Google Vertex AI. The Agentic AI Foun…