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Latest Agentic AI news freshly curated for you as of 11 a.m. ET Aug. 1. Learn more about innovative developments, discover emerging trends and read expert perspectives.
Today's Highlights
- The AI agent economy is now live. Visa, Mastercard, and Stripe have launched the x402 Foundation, creating a common standard for how AI agents make and receive payments.
- Internet pioneer Vint Cerf is joining the DNSid project to provide an "accountability anchor" for AI agents by anchoring their identity to the existing Domain Name System.
- Nvidia has unveiled its Vera CPU, a custom Arm-based server processor with a new microarchitecture optimized for the demands of emerging agentic AI workloads.
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