Ethereum's ERC-8004 standard launches on mainnet, giving AI agents portable blockchain identities and verifiable reputations to enable secure autonomous operations across organizations without ...

Anthropic has introduced an extension to its Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open-source standard for connecting artificial intelligence (AI) applications to external systems. Using MCP, AI ...

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Abstract: In recent years, the utilization of generative AI has advanced rapidly and is being integrated into a variety of business operations and systems. The emergence of standard protocols such as ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) is a new open standard designed to allow AI agents to carry out ...

This week Shirley breaks down the forefront of Agentic ad tech - and asks if this is really as groundbreaking as it seems… Go to a window. Now open it. And out with all the New Year’s resolutions ...

Google introduces a new ‘Checkout’ feature in Gemini and Search AI Mode, allowing US users to make direct purchases through conversations with AI. PCWorld reports that Google launched the Universal ...

In a rare Sunday launch, Google announced new AI Mode ads named Direct Offers. Google also announced branded AI agents and a new open standard for agentic commerce it calls Universal Commerce Protocol ...

This content is provided by an external author without editing by Finextra. It expresses the views and opinions of the author. By establishing a common language and functional primitives, UCP enables ...

In my last post, I referenced how there is now a growing split between the “human” web and the “agentic” web, where AI agents are becoming an additional audience/profile alongside the “traditional” ...

Shopify and Google have co-developed an open standard that enables agents to support commerce. Shopping across Google’s platforms will soon roll out supported by the standard, “Universal Commerce ...