A2A is an open, vendor-neutral protocol that allows diverse AI agents to seamlessly communicate, coordinate, and delegate work. The protocol shifts AI focus from a single monolithic agent to ...

In his keynote presentation, Mike Smith, a Google staff software engineer, told the conference that the A2A protocol has evolved to make it easier to add custom extensions to the core specification.

Google LLC is giving artificial intelligence agents even more autonomy with the launch of a new protocol that makes it possible for them to make payments on behalf of their users. The Agent Payments ...

On Tuesday, Google announced a new open protocol for purchases initiated by AI agents — automated software programs that can shop and make decisions on behalf of users — with backing from more than 60 ...

Once again, too many standards are vying for dominance in solving a relatively simple problem. The IT industry needs to break this counterproductive pattern. You know the routine: The IT industry, ...

On April 9, 2025, Google debuted the Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A) as a standards-based approach that would enable AI agents to discover one another, exchange information securely and collaborate across ...

Anthropic, Google, and others are developing better ways for agents to interact with our programs and each other, but there’s still more work to be done. A growing number of companies are launching AI ...

Agent Pay for Machines is one of a slew of recent attempts from big companies to build payment networks optimized for AI.

Salesforce Inc. today announced the launch of Agentforce 3, a major upgrade to its flagship artificial intelligence product for enterprises with new ways to observe and control AI agents on the ...

The Linux Foundation's newest project takes a proven enterprise data sharing protocol and stretches it across AI models, ...