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Backing ecosystem tripled from 50 to 150+ organizations including Microsoft and Amazon. Signed security cards for agent identity verification. Huawei announced A2A-T, a telecom-domain fork. Source
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- Source: Google Cloud Blog - Category: pattern - Date: 2026-02-12 Agent2Agent protocol reaches v0.3 with gRPC support, security card signing, extended Python SDK. Now governed by Linux Foundation with 150+ organizations. Google launched an AI Agent Marketplace for A2A-compati...
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...
Microsoft, Adobe, SAP, Salesforce, PayPal, ServiceNow. The three-protocol stack (A2A + MCP + WebMCP) is becoming standard enterprise plumbing. Google Cloud Blog
On June 16–17, Google extended its A2A interoperability push with a standard for how agents discover available resources and tools, the same week Microsoft's Work IQ went GA with A2A plus remote MCP. It's a multi-vendor race to standardize the plumbing. Design against the inte...
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...
In its Q3 FY2026 earnings ($82.9B revenue, +18%), Microsoft disclosed something more important than the revenue number: a structural shift in how software gets sold. The company's AI business crossed $37B annual run rate, up 123% year-over-year. But the real signal is the pric...
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