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Standards such as MCP and A2A that let AI agents from different vendors discover services, exchange tasks, and coordinate securely.
Scope3 is now Apostra, a gateway that connects an advertiser's AI agent to a publisher's and takes no percentage of media spend. Its disclosed traction is 40 media partners and seven-figure campaigns.
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At Dreamforce 2026 the company said Model Context Protocol will carry its context and actions into both hyperscalers' agent products, while AWS agents move into Slack. The connector work becomes a scoping job.
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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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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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A paper scores five agent interoperability protocols against six governance dimensions and finds they coordinate tasks without expressing who may approve, how dissent survives, or when a human is called.
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Block open-sourced the desktop app its own teams use to drive agents. The design claim underneath it is that active context should be inspectable, not archaeology in a prompt log.
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Alipay's Hangzhou launch pairs merchant adaptation tooling with the AHA interconnection protocol, 20-plus device and model partners, and subsidies aimed at buying early volume.
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