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Agent2Agent (A2A) is an open protocol, originally developed by Google, that lets AI agents built on different frameworks communicate and work together.
BlackRock's new paper argues stablecoins are the rail built for sub-cent machine payments, and TRM Labs, examining $52.7 million of Coinbase x402 settlements, could attribute between 0.6% and 7.5% of the value to AI agents.
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A Forbes Tech Council column argues that an institution's control over what its agents may do decides sovereignty, and the European rules it cites were written for cloud vendors.
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At Dreamforce 2026 the company said Model Context Protocol will carry its context and actions into both hyperscalers' agent products, while AWS agents move into Slack. The connector work becomes a scoping job.
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AWS now ships a first-party catalog for agents, tools, skills and MCP servers, moving the hard part off building them and onto whoever keeps the records current and clears the approval queue, a staffing question as much as a platform one.
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Lock-in migrated from the model to the runtime that holds your tool grants, approval rules and learned state. Six specifications aim to make that runtime's contents portable, and half of them are one person's drafts.
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