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AAIF will govern MCP, Block's Goose, AGENTS.md, and Google's A2A under vendor-neutral open governance. AWS, Cisco, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, SAP, and ServiceNow are participating. Both inter-agent communication and tool access protocols now have neutral stewardship. Linux Foundation
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MCP now has 97M+ monthly SDK downloads. First-class client support across ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and VS Code. Governed by the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under Linux Foundation, co-founded by Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI. AAIF also hosts Goose (op...
If you wrote an MCP server before July, it's on a protocol shape the maintainers have already removed. Not deprecated-with-a-migration-window. Removed from the spec. MCP lead maintainers David Soria Parra and Den Delimarsky published an updated roadmap on August 22, and the re...
The agent business model showed up this week, and it's rent. At Knowledge 2026, ServiceNow launched Action Fabric, a layer that every external AI agent must pass through to read data or run workflows inside the ServiceNow platform, metered on action-based pricing (ServiceNow N...
This is the most consequential architecture decision in enterprise software since cloud versus on-prem, and it happened quietly across three vendor announcements. PYMNTS connected the dots first. SAP blocks. Its API Policy v4/2026, published in late April, prohibits using SAP...
For 18 months, Anthropic's Model Context Protocol has been the thing everyone quietly agreed on. You want to plug a tool into an agent, you speak MCP. It won by being early, open, and good enough. That consensus is now contested. Per The Information, Google, Microsoft, Salesfo...
Founding signatories include AWS, Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, NVIDIA, Microsoft and GitHub, IBM, Red Hat, Cisco, JPMorganChase, Citi, the Rust Foundation, Zscaler, and Sonatype, with OpenSSF, CNCF, and OpenInfra participating. The open letter drew 455 points on HN. (Akrites / L...
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