MCP is now the industry-standard protocol for agent-to-tool comms — adoption crossed table-stakes.
Aug 2026 · Model Context Protocol
Snowflake unveils Cortex AI Gateway at Black Hat 2026 — MCP governance, agent identity, exfiltration controls.
Aug 2026 · Enterprise AI security
Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol emerging for cross-org agent coordination — the second protocol pillar next to MCP.
Aug 2026 · Emerging standards
Single-agent workflows giving way to specialized multi-agent teams as context limits force decomposition.
Aug 2026 · Agent architecture
Anthropic MCP tunnels (self-hosted sandboxes) — data stays on customer box while calling Claude.
May 2026 · Anthropic
Google Antigravity 2.0 lands — multi-agent orchestration, CLI + SDK, Gemini 3.5 Flash ~4× faster.
May 2026 · Google I/O