MCP, A2A, ACP, or UTCP? It seems like every other day, orgs add yet another AI protocol to the agentic alphabet soup, making it all the more confusing. Below, we'll share what all these abbreviations ...

As payment companies work to standardize agentic commerce, merchants are looking for ways to make their products known to agents, a problem that Klarna is hoping to get ahead of with its own protocol.

Unified framework secures and scales interactions across the emerging AI-driven economyKnow Your Agent protocol verifies identity and human attribution by linking AI agents to authorized human ...

The x402 protocol aims to enable "agentic payments" by embedding stablecoin micropayments directly into the internet’s communication layer so AI agents and software can pay each other automatically.

What happens when innovative AI agents meet the challenge of connecting to real-world tools and data? The answer lies in the protocols that bridge the gap between static training models and dynamic, ...

Nokia introduces agentic AI framework in Network Services Platform to enable trust-based AI operations for IP networksNokia NSP adds an agentic ...

Visa is introducing a new security framework designed to solve one of the thorniest problems emerging in artificial intelligence-powered commerce: how retailers can tell the difference between ...

Cloudflare on Tuesday announced that it has partnered with the world’s largest payments firms, including Visa and Mastercard, to enable agentic commerce. The company stated that the industry-wide ...

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Todd Bishop on May 5, 2026 at 10:21 ...

What if integrating powerful AI tools into your workflows was as simple as plugging in a USB drive? For years, developers have wrestled with the complexities of connecting large language models (LLMs) ...

The adoption of AI agents among businesses is growing rapidly. Meanwhile, the development of safety protocols is lagging. Deloitte recommends implementing oversight procedures. Businesses are ramping ...

By fine-tuning domain-specific models with real clinical operations data — such as historical performance, feasibility ...