Mysten Labs and Google Cloud launched an audit layer for AI agents on October 6, ahead of EU AI Act fines of up to 3% of global turnover from 2027. Agent logs stay in customer-controlled Google storage and only the proofs go to Sui and Walrus, with no price or customer yet disclosed.
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- Insufficient
- Hype gap+35
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The token standards for delegated machine authority are older than the agent boom, yet nothing portable records how far a mandate extends once it crosses company lines, which leaves accountability for a committed purchase unsettled.
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- Hype gap+12
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Sprix AI's prototype prices the cost of moving context mid-task and sits above A2A instead of replacing it. It decides the arrangement; it does not execute it.
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- Adoption9
- Hype gap+14
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- Insufficient
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Five named priorities now decide which specification proposals get read first, which makes the August roadmap a resource-allocation call for anyone building unattended agents.
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- Adoption32
- Hype gap−4
- Incentives62
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Google's Agent2Agent has been accepted as a growth-stage project at the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation, which already holds MCP, goose and AGENTS.md. The protocol question is now a governance non-event.
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- Evidence28
- Adoption32
- Hype gap+34
- Incentives86
- Confidence30