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Vendor-neutral formats and specifications intended to make AI agent extensions portable across clients and runtimes.
The pilots at Genentech, Janelia and QuEra are the test of whether one agent interface can retire per-device drivers. Its best number, 99.3% autonomous laser relock, comes from the easiest failure mode in the set.
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The Copilot CLI plugin reference now puts organization and MDM policy above local toggles. The same rewrite retires the flags and JSON shape that existing plugin scripts were built on.
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Shopify's COO says agents reading its Catalog convert at twice the rate of agents scraping a storefront, and that is the number the company is spending tokens against while its agentic sales are still small.
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The Model Hardware Standard is pitched at scientists wiring up lab instruments, but the line that matters says models can recover from hardware errors without intervention. That makes stop authority an electrical question.
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A $25 billion accelerated repurchase, funded with new debt, was the biggest capital decision of the quarter. The guidance arithmetic puts second-half organic growth about where the first quarter left it.
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Six vendors agreed on where a plugin's components live. The two specifications that define what those components do sit outside the project, and outside its steering committee.
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