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Infrastructure
The Agent Framework team's new pattern replaces specialist agents with skills served directly over the protocol – and the controlled benchmarks show a 60% latency reduction, though at a token cost.
◆ Blair Hayes
Infrastructure
The Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation is hosting the first major conference dedicated to agent infrastructure and MCP — and the speaker lineup confirms the governance stack thesis Forkast has been tracking.
◆ Blair Hayes
Infrastructure
ServiceNow, Rubrik, Microsoft, Google, and Meta all committed to MCP governance in the same two-week window—each building a different layer of the same protocol stack.
◆ Blair Hayes
Infrastructure
At HUAWEI CONNECT 2026, the cloud provider launches a silicon-to-agent stack built on Ascend chips with petabyte-scale memory — establishing a non-Western node in the global Agent Governance Stack.
◆ Blair Hayes
Infrastructure
AIR Security discloses the first supply-chain vulnerability of the AI agent ecosystem – a zero-click RCE that defeats version pinning with one missing verification check. GitHub Copilot remains unpatched.
◆ Blair Hayes
Infrastructure
The Credentials API architecture — egress proxy with domain allowlist — marks a qualitatively different approach to agent security, adding a fourth layer to the governance stack in a week when four vendors shipped four credential models.
◆ Blair Hayes
Infrastructure
The data-security vendor becomes the third Fortune-500 company in two weeks to adopt MCP as its primary agent interop layer — and it brings the security stack with it.
◆ Blair Hayes
Infrastructure
The data-security vendor becomes the third Fortune-500 company in two weeks to adopt MCP as its primary agent interop layer — and it brings the security stack with it.
◆ Blair Hayes
Infrastructure
The open-source runtime treats agent security as an infrastructure problem, not a prompt problem — and it fills a gap in the emerging governance stack alongside build-time and centralized-control layers.
◆ Blair Hayes
Infrastructure
Cisco's Agent Runtime SDK embeds policy checks at build time across AWS, Google, Azure, and LangChain. An open-source agent framework and free red-teaming tool round out a bet that the 85%/5% enterprise gap is a trust problem, not a technology one.
◆ Blair Hayes
