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Tag: Agentic Protocol

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Twilio’s Ola Is the Communication Layer That Tells AI Agents No

As the AI industry builds agents with greater capabilities and freedom to do what they want, Twilio is choosing to build the layer that decides whether they should. On Thursday, the communications infrastructure platform unveiled Ola, a tool that lets people approve or block actions taken by their AI agents on their behalf. Created by […]

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AWS Gives AI Agents the Authority to Spend With AgentCore Payments

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is building the infrastructure that lets AI agents transact on behalf of humans—with their consent, of course. At its Financial Services Symposium on Thursday, the company unveiled AgentCore Payments, a set of features within Amazon Bedrock that lets AI agents access and pay for the resources they use. Built with Coinbase […]

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Visa Wants to Be the Payment Rail for the Agentic Economy

Visa is looking to position itself as the payments backbone for agentic commerce. On Wednesday, the global payments network debuted Intelligent Commerce Connect (ICC), a platform designed to help AI agents discover merchants and complete purchases on behalf of users. Notably, despite it coming from Visa, it works across any card network or credential infrastructure […]

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Okta Rolls out Identity Security Tools to Govern AI Agents and Block New Attack Vectors

AI agents are entering the enterprise faster than companies can control them, and the hybrid workforce era is only raising the stakes, creating new security risks. To help organizations adapt, Okta is announcing updates to its Okta and Auth0 platforms that integrate new capabilities into a security fabric designed to govern AI agents, enforce trust, […]

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Linux Foundation Takes Charge of AGNTCY to Build the Open Internet of AI Agents

Two of the most influential interoperability standards for AI agents are now under the stewardship of the Linux Foundation, marking a major step towards an open, interconnected agent ecosystem. The nonprofit organization announced on Tuesday that it is now custodian of the AGNTCY project, an initiative backed by Cisco, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Gaileo, and Glean. This […]

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4 Steps to Building Smarter AI Agents

IN THIS ISSUE: Dive into Salesforce’s new framework for CIOs, offering advice on how their organizations can effectively harness the power of AI agents. Explore the four steps necessary to develop mature, intelligent, effective bots, and discover how companies can align their AI strategies with business goals. Plus, catch up on the latest from Google […]

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Google Pushes Agent Interoperability With New Dev Kit and Agent2Agent Standard

Google is doubling down on enterprise AI. At Cloud Next 2025, the company unveiled new cloud capabilities designed to help businesses turn AI potential into real-world impact. That includes the arrival of Gemini 2.5 Flash on the Vertex AI developer platform and upgrades to its generative media models. And, as AI agents begin taking on […]