'Father of the Internet' Vint Cerf Retiring From Google

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Vinton Cerf, co-creator of the TCP/IP protocols underlying the internet, will step down as Google's chief internet evangelist next week after decades at the company. His retirement marks the close of an era as the industry pivots toward an agent-driven, AI-mediated web. The timing is symbolically notable against debates over how autonomous agents reshape the open internet he helped build.