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Linux Foundation launches Agent Name Service for AI identity
The Linux Foundation announced its intent to launch the Agent Name Service (ANS) on June 23, 2026, in San Francisco, establishing an open-source standard built on DNS to provide trusted identity, veri
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Entire raises $60M, ships Checkpoints agent tool
Entire, led by former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke, raised a $60 million seed round in February 2026 and released Checkpoints, an MIT-licensed open-source CLI tool that captures AI agent context on every
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Giant Swarm launches Kubernetes-native AI agent platform
Giant Swarm, a Germany-based Kubernetes specialist, opened its AI agent platform to design partners in mid-July 2026, enabling enterprises to run open-source agents within their own infrastructure wit
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Google ships WebMCP preview in Chrome, extends agent protocol to web
Google and Microsoft unveiled an early preview of WebMCP, a W3C-standardized protocol for structured agent interaction with websites, shipping in Chrome 146 Canary in February 2026. The move extends t
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MCP hits 97M downloads, moves to Linux Foundation
Anthropic's Model Context Protocol reached 97 million monthly SDK downloads in March 2026 and was transferred to the Agentic AI Foundation under Linux Foundation governance in December 2025, cementing
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Anthropic Renames Agent SDK, Enters Managed Agents Beta
Anthropic renamed its Claude Code SDK to Claude Agent SDK on September 29, 2025, and entered public beta with Claude Managed Agents on April 8, 2026, expanding its hosted infrastructure for autonomous
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Grab Runs Hundreds of AI Agents on Palana Secure Platform
Grab's security and platform engineering teams built Palana, a Kubernetes-native sandbox for running autonomous AI agents safely, already managing hundreds of internal workloads including remote devel
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Databricks Open-Sources Omnigent Meta-Harness for Agent Orchestration
Databricks released Omnigent, an open-source meta-harness for AI agent orchestration, on June 13, 2026 at its DAIS summit. The tool enforces stateful cost budgets, permissions, and sandbox policies ac
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A2A Protocol hits v1.0 production standard with 150+ adopters
The Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Protocol, originally developed by Google and now governed by the Linux Foundation, reached v1.0 in March 2026 as the first stable, production-grade specification for agent int
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Microsoft ships Agent Framework 1.0, unifying Semantic Kernel and Auto
Microsoft released Agent Framework 1.0 on April 3, 2026, merging two major open-source projects into a single production-ready SDK with native support for Model Context Protocol and Agent-to-Agent com
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AWS Ships Bedrock AgentCore Harness to GA
AWS announced general availability of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Harness on June 17, 2026, at AWS Summit New York, enabling developers to configure and deploy production-grade autonomous agents without
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Anthropic ships Claude Agent SDK with native MCP, marketplace
Anthropic renamed its Claude Code SDK to Claude Agent SDK in early 2026 and launched Claude Managed Agents in public beta on April 8, 2026, establishing the framework with the deepest native Model Con
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AWS Rolls Out AgentCore Insights Preview, Expands Amazon Q Agents
AWS introduced new optimization capabilities for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore on June 17, 2026, at AWS Summit New York, enabling developers to analyze agent failures and improve performance in production.
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Microsoft, Google back Go for AI agents; OpenAI, Anthropic absent
Microsoft joined Google on July 11, 2026, in officially endorsing the Go programming language as the standard for building AI agent frameworks, leaving OpenAI and Anthropic without a seat at the table
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MIT, Microsoft optimize agent workflows with 65% computation cut
MIT and Microsoft researchers unveiled Murakkab, a system that automatically optimizes AI agent workflows to use 65% less computation and 73% less energy while maintaining accuracy, published June 25,
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MCP protocol overhaul removes sessions, rewrites auth for stateless ag
Model Context Protocol maintainers published a release candidate on May 21, 2026, for the largest protocol revision since launch, eliminating sessions and initialization handshakes while rewriting aut