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Agents2026-07-28 · source-backed
This is sponsored content from MIT Tech Review Insights with Outshift by Cisco, so read the framing as vendor positioning, but the failure range is worth knowing. Vijoy Pandey's proposed fixes: shared intent via cognition state protocols (internal testing claims goal agreement rose from about a third of scenarios to 93%), a persistent cognition fabric for cross-session memory, and CASA continuous authorization, all on AGNTCY under the Linux Foundation. (MIT Technology Review)
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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...
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...
MIT Technology Review covers a Stanford/MIT effort (Anka Reuel, Shayne Longpre) analyzing 24,521 donated conversations across 52 models from 2023-2025 against vendors' own usage reports. Because Anthropic filters for work-related use, nearly half of real conversations would be...
The 2026 State of AI Security Report from Cisco ships real tools, not just analysis: an MCP scanner, an A2A protocol scanner, a pickle format fuzzer, and a skill file scanner — all open-source. The data behind it: 83% of organizations plan agentic AI deployment but only 29% fe...
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...
Cisco's State of AI Security 2026 report is the first major infrastructure vendor to formally categorize MCP as an enterprise attack surface. Key findings: 83% of organizations plan to deploy agentic AI, but only 29% feel prepared to secure it. Concrete attack examples: WhatsA...
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