The Agentic AI Foundation passes 300 members in under a year
The Agentic AI Foundation reported 305 member organisations in under a year, saying agents are moving from developer experiments to institutional infrastructure.
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AAIF adds Agent Skills, Open Responses, OpenEnv and OpenSandbox
On 22 October 2026 the Agentic AI Foundation added four projects — Agent Skills from Anthropic, Open Responses from OpenAI, OpenEnv from Hugging Face and OpenSandbox from Alibaba — bringing it to 10 hosted projects covering different layers of the agentic stack.
Anthropic donates Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation
On 22 October 2026 Anthropic handed the Agent Skills open standard — its name, logo, GitHub organisation and domain — to the Agentic AI Foundation, a Linux Foundation project, after more than 70 agent platforms had adopted it.
MCP publishes the 2026-07-28 specification with a stateless core
On 28 July 2026 the Model Context Protocol project published a specification built on a stateless core, turning MCP into a request/response protocol whose requests any instance behind a plain round-robin load balancer can serve.
Mistral AI agrees to acquire physics-AI company Emmi AI
On 23 May 2026 Mistral AI said it had agreed to acquire Emmi AI, an Austrian physics-AI company whose large engineering models simulate power grids, injection moulding and car safety tests; more than 30 staff, including co-founder Johannes Brandstetter, are joining.
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada contracts seven Digit robots
In February 2026, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada contracted seven Agility Robotics Digit robots under a robots-as-a-service deal, after a year-long pilot, to unload totes of auto parts in a plant building RAV4 SUVs.
India hosts the AI Impact Summit 2026
India hosted the AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi from 16 to 21 February 2026, the first edition of the global AI summit series held in the Global South. A declaration was endorsed by 92 countries and organisations, and 13 model providers signed frontier AI commitments.
Anthropic donates MCP to the Agentic AI Foundation
On 9 December 2025, Anthropic donated MCP to the Agentic AI Foundation, a directed fund under the Linux Foundation; MCP became a founding project alongside Block's goose and OpenAI's AGENTS.md while retaining technical autonomy.
MCP publishes the November 2025 specification
On 25 November 2025 the Model Context Protocol project published its November 2025 specification, adding task-based workflows, simpler authorisation, security and enterprise features, a formal extension mechanism, and new elicitation and sampling modes.
Figure reports results of its Figure 02 deployment at BMW
Figure reported that its Figure 02 robots spent 11 months on an active assembly line at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg, loading more than 90,000 parts and contributing to production of more than 30,000 X3 vehicles.
Anthropic introduces Agent Skills
On 16 October 2025 Anthropic introduced Agent Skills, folders of instructions, scripts and resources that Claude loads when a task calls for them. On 18 December 2025 the format was published as an open standard.
Shanghai embodied intelligence implementation plan
On 6 August 2025 Shanghai released its Embodied Intelligence Industry Development Implementation Plan, targeting 100 key enterprises, 100 major application scenarios, 100 leading products and a core industry scale above 50 billion yuan.
Linux Foundation welcomes the AGNTCY project
On 29 July 2025 the Linux Foundation welcomed AGNTCY, an open project for interoperable AI agents, with Cisco, Dell Technologies, Google Cloud, Oracle and Red Hat as formative members.
Linux Foundation takes over the A2A protocol
The Linux Foundation announced the Agent2Agent project on 23 June 2025, taking stewardship of Google's open protocol for secure communication between autonomous AI agents and placing it under vendor-neutral governance.
US AI Safety Institute becomes the Center for AI Standards and Innovation
On 3 June 2025 Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced that the U.S. AI Safety Institute, housed in NIST, would become the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, a pro-innovation body focused on voluntary standards, industry testing and unclassified national-security evaluations.
Google announces the Agent2Agent protocol
On 9 April 2025 Google announced Agent2Agent (A2A), an open protocol that lets AI agents from different vendors communicate, exchange information securely and coordinate work. In June 2025 the Linux Foundation said it would host the project.
GitHub Copilot agent mode and MCP support roll out to all VS Code users
On 4 April 2025 GitHub released Copilot agent mode and MCP support to all VS Code users, letting the assistant take actions, propose commands and call external tools, with a 56.0% pass rate reported on SWE-bench Verified.
Shenzhen embodied intelligence robot action plan 2025-2027
In March 2025 Shenzhen published a 2025–2027 action plan for embodied intelligence robots, targeting an industry scale above 100 billion yuan, more than 1,200 cluster companies and a group of large, fast-growing firms.
Beijing embodied intelligence action plan 2025-2027
In March 2025 Beijing issued a three-year action plan for embodied intelligence, setting targets for technology breakthroughs, products, companies and mass production, including a goal to be the first city to exceed 10,000 units produced.
UK renames its AI Safety Institute as the AI Security Institute
On 14 February 2025, the UK minister for science, innovation and technology announced at the Munich Security Conference that the AI Safety Institute would become the AI Security Institute, focusing on security-related risks and adding a criminal misuse team.
Paris AI Action Summit closes with 60 signatories and no US or UK signature
France and India co-hosted the Paris AI Action Summit on 10–11 February 2025, where 60 countries and international organisations signed a statement on inclusive, sustainable AI. The United States and the United Kingdom did not sign.