spec FIDO Alliance to Develop Standards for Trusted AI Agent Interactions
FIDO Alliance formed Agentic Auth TWG backed by Google AP2 and Mastercard Verifiable Intent; 60+ orgs committed.
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Open specs that define how agents interoperate: Anthropic's Model Context Protocol, Google's Agent-to-Agent protocol, the in-progress Agent Commerce Protocol working group. Movement here lags movement at networks by 6–9 months.
FIDO Alliance formed Agentic Auth TWG backed by Google AP2 and Mastercard Verifiable Intent; 60+ orgs committed.
FIDO AllianceTen-member governance body now spans retail, social commerce, cloud infrastructure, enterprise software, and payments, signalling broad industry convergence on UCP.
Newsfile CorpOpen-source standard covering the full shopping journey co-launched with Shopify, Walmart, Target, and Etsy, endorsed by 20+ partners including Mastercard, Visa, and Stripe.
TechCrunchAAIF launched with Anthropic's MCP, Block's goose, and OpenAI's AGENTS.md as flagship projects; AWS, Google, and Microsoft among platinum members.
Linux FoundationOne-year anniversary spec adds async Tasks, improved OAuth support, and extensions; first revision with backward-compatibility guarantees.
Model Context Protocol BlogOpen payment protocol using cryptographically-signed Mandates to authorise agent-led transactions across credit, debit, stablecoins, and real-time transfers; extends A2A and MCP.
Google Cloud BlogOpen protocol for inter-agent communication and capability negotiation, launched at Google Cloud Next with support from 50+ technology and services partners.
Google Developers BlogOpen spec for connecting AI assistants to data sources and tools, published with reference servers in TypeScript and Python.
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