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Techday NZ
30-07-2025
- Business
- Techday NZ
Linux Foundation adopts AGNTCY to standardise agentic AI
The Linux Foundation has announced that it is welcoming the AGNTCY project, an open source initiative aimed at standardising foundational infrastructure for open multi-agent artificial intelligence (AI) systems. AGNTCY delivers core components required for discovery, secure messaging, and cross-platform collaboration among AI agents that originate from different companies and frameworks. The project has the backing of industry players including Cisco, Dell Technologies, Google Cloud, Oracle, and Red Hat, all of whom have joined as formative members under the Linux Foundation's open governance. Originally released as open source by Cisco in March 2025 with collaboration from LangChain and Galileo, AGNTCY now includes support from over 75 companies. Its infrastructure forms the basis for the so-called 'Internet of Agents' - an environment where AI agents from diverse origins are able to communicate, collaborate, and be discovered regardless of vendor or execution environment. The increasing adoption of AI agents across industries has led to concerns about fragmentation and the formation of closed silos, constraining agents' ability to communicate across platforms securely and efficiently. AGNTCY's infrastructure aims to address these issues by standardising secure identity, robust messaging, and comprehensive observability. This allows organisations and developers to manage AI agents with improved transparency, performance, and trust. Compatibility is a focus for AGNTCY, which is interoperable with the Agent2Agent (A2A) project, also part of the Linux Foundation, as well as Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP). The project supports agent discovery through AGNTCY directories, enables observable environments using AGNTCY's software development kits (SDKs), and utilises the Secure Low Latency Interactive Messaging (SLIM) protocol for secure message transport. "The AGNTCY project lays groundwork for secure, interoperable collaboration among autonomous agents," said Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation. "We are pleased to welcome the AGNTCY project to the Linux Foundation to ensure its infrastructure remains open, neutral, and community-driven." The AGNTCY project's infrastructure offers several key functions for multi-agent environments. Agent discovery is facilitated using the Open Agent Schema Framework (OASF), allowing agents to identify and understand each other's capabilities. Agent identity is supported via cryptographically verifiable processes to ensure secure activity across organisational boundaries. The agent messaging component supports various communication modes, including human-in-the-loop and quantum-safe options via the SLIM protocol. Observability functionalities provide evaluation and debugging across complex, multi-vendor workflows. "Building the foundational infrastructure for the Internet of Agents requires community ownership, not vendor control," said Vijoy Pandey, general manager and senior vice president of Outshift by Cisco. "The Linux Foundation ensures this critical infrastructure remains neutral and accessible to everyone building multi-agent systems." The project is underpinned by real-world applications, including AI-driven continuous integration and deployment pipelines, multi-agent IT operations, and the automation of telecom networks. This underlines the diversity of use cases benefitting from AGNTCY's open source approach. Various leaders and members have shared their perspective on the announcement: "Interoperability is central to Dell's agentic AI vision. The ability of agents to work together empowers enterprises to reap the full value of AI. Additionally, interworking technologies must accommodate agents wherever they are deployed whether in public clouds, private data centres, the edge or on devices. Dell is working hand-in-hand with industry leaders to establish open standards for agentic interoperability. Being a formative member of the Linux Foundation's AGNTCY project is one such step towards fulfilling the promise of agentic AI." – John Roese, global CTO and chief AI officer, Dell Technologies. "We've been building AGNTCY's evaluation and observability components from day one because reliable Agents cannot scale without purpose-built monitoring. Moving all components of AGNTCY to the Linux Foundation ensures these tools serve the entire ecosystem, not just our customers. As a founding member of AGNTCY, we're eager to see neutral governance accelerate adoption of standards we know enterprises need for production agent deployments." – Yash Sheth, co-founder, Galileo. "Open, community-driven standards are essential for creating a diverse, interoperable agentic AI ecosystem. We're pleased that Cisco is moving AGNTCY to the Linux Foundation, where it will be neutrally governed alongside the Agent2Agent protocol to advance powerful, collaborative agent systems for the industry." – Rao Surapaneni, vice president, business applications platform, Google Cloud. "Enterprise customers need agent infrastructure they can trust for mission-critical workloads. We welcome AGNTCY's move to the Linux Foundation and are proud to be a formative member of this project. A tight control over data security and governance helps discovery, identity, and observability components work reliably across the entire enterprise technology stack, not just specific vendor ecosystems." – Roger Barga, senior vice president, AI & ML, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. "Our customers and partners, as well as the open source communities we work with, are actively exploring agentic capabilities to bring the inferencing benefits of vLLM and llm-d to their applications. Red Hat welcomes AGNTCY's move to the Linux Foundation and we look forward to working with the community to help bring open, agnostic governance to the agentic AI ecosystem." – Steve Watt, vice president and distinguished engineer, Office of the CTO, Red Hat. Follow us on: Share on:
Malaysian Reserve
18-06-2025
- Business
- Malaysian Reserve
OPAQUE Systems Joins AGNTCY to Advance Secure, Confidential AI Collaboration
SAN FRANCISCO, June 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — OPAQUE Systems, the Confidential AI company and pioneer in secure agent collaboration, is proud to announce at the 3rd annual Confidential Computing Summit its official membership in AGNTCY, the open source collective building the infrastructure for the Internet of Agents founded by Outshift by Cisco, LangChain and Galileo. This strategic collaboration addresses the critical trust and privacy challenges emerging as AI agents operate at unprecedented scale and speed across organizational boundaries. Multi-agent workflows are fundamentally transforming enterprise AI, enabling intelligent systems to collaborate and deliver unprecedented business value. As organizations accelerate innovation with agentic systems, trust and confidentiality have become essential to unlocking AI's full potential across industries. AGNTCY brings together diverse companies and technologists to create the practical components needed for the Internet of Agents. With the addition of OPAQUE and its Confidential AI Platform, we are uniquely suited to address this critical need by ensuring robust data and model confidentiality and integrity. 'Before multi-agent software can truly become embedded in critical processes, we need verifiable privacy, data sovereignty, integrity, and runtime guarantees-so organizations can safely scale AI ecosystems without duct-taping manual review at every step. That's why we're welcoming OPAQUE as a member in AGNTCY. They help solve the trust infrastructure problem we're all going to hit as we build the Internet of Agents together,' said Vijoy Pandey, GM and Senior Vice President, Outshift by Cisco. 'Multi-agent workflows are transforming enterprise AI, fundamentally changing how intelligent systems collaborate', said Aaron Fulkerson, CEO of OPAQUE. 'Trust and confidentiality are essential to unlocking their full potential and delivering genuine business value across industries. Joining AGNTCY aligns with OPAQUE's mission to ensure that confidential AI enables secure agent collaboration that accelerates innovation while maintaining privacy in an open, interoperable future for agentic systems.' OPAQUE joins a growing community of technologists, innovators, and thought leaders dedicated to solving the trust and security challenges inherent in next-generation AI workflows. Want to dive deeper into the future of secure agent collaboration and multi-agent systems? Listen to Vijoy Pandey, General Manager and Senior Vice President of Outshift by Cisco, on an upcoming episode of OPAQUE's AI Confidential Podcast airing July 1st as he explores how AGNTCY is building the trust infrastructure for the Internet of Agents. About OPAQUE SystemsOPAQUE is the Confidential AI company. Rooted in groundbreaking research from UC Berkeley's RISELab, OPAQUE Systems delivers a Confidential AI platform that transforms how enterprises handle, analyze, and share sensitive data. Its Confidential Agents platform enables enterprises to run AI on sensitive data—without risk, delay, or compliance tradeoffs. Customers include ServiceNow, the European Union, and other global leaders in AI, fintech, and enterprise infrastructure. To learn more, visit or request a demo to see Confidential AI in action. About AGNTCYAGNTCY is the open source collective building the foundational technologies and standards for the Internet of Agents—an open, interoperable internet for agent-to-agent collaboration. Founding contributors Cisco, LangChain, and Galileo, AGNTCY develops standards and frameworks that enable AI agents to discover, compose, deploy, and evaluate collaborative workflows across platforms and organizations. For more information, visit to see how we're building the Internet of Agents. Explore the AGNTCY GitHub repo to try the protocols, tools, and frameworks driving the Internet of Agents. Contact: Inkhouse for OPAQUEopaquesystems@
TimesLIVE
07-05-2025
- Business
- TimesLIVE
Cisco shows quantum networking chip, opens new lab
Cisco Systems on Tuesday showed a prototype chip for networking quantum computers together and said it is opening a new lab in Santa Monica, California, to further pursue quantum computing. The chip uses some of the same technology as current networking chips and would help link together smaller quantum computers into larger systems. But Cisco also believes it will have practical applications before those computers become mainstream, such as helping financial firms sync up the timing of trades or helping scientists detect meteorites. "There are a whole bunch of use cases," Vijoy Pandey, senior vice-president of Cisco's Outshift innovation incubator, told Reuters. "You need to synchronise clocks and the timestamps on all of these snapshots that are taking place from across the globe." Cisco is the latest mainstream tech firm to jump into quantum computing. Alphabet's Google, Microsoft and Amazon have all announced quantum computing chips in recent months, and Nvidia plans to open its own quantum computing lab. Startups such as PsiQuantum are also raising hundreds of millions of dollars to build systems. While those firms all vie to create more and more "qubits" — the fundamental unit of quantum computers — Cisco is working to link them up. The company says its chip, which it developed with researchers from the University of California Santa Barbara, works by causing quantum entanglement in pairs of photons, and then sending one of the pair to two separate quantum computers. For a short time, Cisco says, the quantum computers can use those entangled photons to communicate instantaneously, no matter how far apart they are — a phenomenon of quantum physics that Albert Einstein referred to as "spooky action at a distance". Pandey emphasised that Cisco does not yet have a timeline for when the chip will generate revenue and that the chip is only a prototype.
Indian Express
07-05-2025
- Business
- Indian Express
Cisco shows quantum networking chip, opens new lab
Cisco Systems on Tuesday showed a prototype chip for networking quantum computers together and said it is opening a new lab in Santa Monica, California, to further pursue quantum computing. The chip uses some of the same technology as current networking chips and would help link together smaller quantum computers into larger systems. But Cisco also believes it will have practical applications before those computers become mainstream, such as helping financial firms sync up the timing of trades or helping scientists detect meteorites. 'There are a whole bunch of use cases,' Vijoy Pandey, senior vice president of Cisco's Outshift innovation incubator, told Reuters. 'You need to synchronize clocks and the timestamps on all of these snapshots that are taking place from across the globe.' Cisco is the latest mainstream tech firm to jump into quantum computing. Alphabet's Google, Microsoft and Amazon have all announced quantum computing chips in recent months, and Nvidia plans to open its own quantum computing lab. Startups such as PsiQuantum are also raising hundreds of millions of dollars to build systems. While those firms all vie to create more and more 'qubits' – the fundamental unit of quantum computers – Cisco is working to link them up. The company says its chip, which it developed with researchers from the University of California Santa Barbara, works by causing quantum entanglement in pairs of photons, and then sending one of the pair to two separate quantum computers. For a short time, Cisco says, the quantum computers can use those entangled photons to communicate instantaneously, no matter how far apart they are – a phenomenon of quantum physics that Albert Einstein referred to as 'spooky action at a distance.' Pandey emphasized that Cisco does not yet have a timeline for when the chip will generate revenue and that the chip is only a prototype. 'To build out that quantum network, the first building block that you need is an entanglement chip,' Pandey said. 'Here's the first building block of that.'
The Hindu
07-05-2025
- Business
- The Hindu
Cisco shows quantum networking chip, opens new lab
Cisco Systems on Tuesday showed a prototype chip for networking quantum computers together and said it is opening a new lab in Santa Monica, California, to further pursue quantum computing. The chip uses some of the same technology as current networking chips and would help link together smaller quantum computers into larger systems. But Cisco also believes it will have practical applications before those computers become mainstream, such as helping financial firms sync up the timing of trades or helping scientists detect meteorites. "There are a whole bunch of use cases," Vijoy Pandey, senior vice president of Cisco's Outshift innovation incubator, told Reuters. "You need to synchronise clocks and the timestamps on all of these snapshots that are taking place from across the globe." Cisco is the latest mainstream tech firm to jump into quantum computing. Alphabet's Google, Microsoft and Amazon have all announced quantum computing chips in recent months, and Nvidia plans to open its own quantum computing lab. Startups such as PsiQuantum are also raising hundreds of millions of dollars to build systems. While those firms all vie to create more and more "qubits" - the fundamental unit of quantum computers - Cisco is working to link them up. The company says its chip, which it developed with researchers from the University of California Santa Barbara, works by causing quantum entanglement in pairs of photons, and then sending one of the pair to two separate quantum computers. For a short time, Cisco says, the quantum computers can use those entangled photons to communicate instantaneously, no matter how far apart they are - a phenomenon of quantum physics that Albert Einstein referred to as "spooky action at a distance." Pandey emphasised that Cisco does not yet have a timeline for when the chip will generate revenue and that the chip is only a prototype. "To build out that quantum network, the first building block that you need is an entanglement chip," Pandey said. "Here's the first building block of that."
