AI agents are approaching the kind of breakthrough moment that APIs had in the early 2010s. At that time, REST and JSON unlocked system-to-system integration at scale by simplifying what had been a ...

Major technology vendors are converging around a single protocol for artificial intelligence agent communication, potentially ending the fragmentation that has limited the deployment of enterprise AI.

In his keynote presentation, Mike Smith, a Google staff software engineer, told the conference that the A2A protocol has evolved to make it easier to add custom extensions to the core specification.