Open Standards stories

Google Cloud is betting on AI agents as the main users of enterprise data, unveiling new tools for context, automation and cross-cloud access.

Grafana Labs rolls out Grafana 13 and a Loki overhaul as it pushes open observability, Kubernetes support and simpler dashboarding.

Red Hat survey finds UK firms are adopting agentic AI faster than they can govern it, despite strong support for open source controls.

Fime unveils neutral trust layer for AI-driven payments, aiming to verify autonomous purchases, compliance and auditability across networks.

Adobe launches CX Enterprise Coworker to connect fragmented marketing systems and let AI agents carry out customer experience tasks with human oversight.

Equinix adds AI-driven network controls as enterprises race to scale distributed workloads.

Industry executives said the move signals a UK ambition to exert greater influence over how AI systems operate and how the economic value they generate flows back into the country.

Umbraco adds AI skills to guide backoffice development, giving agents direct access to current docs, code and examples for safer customisation.

Legrand adds Open Compute Project rack, power and cooling gear as data centre operators brace for AI-driven density and heat demands.

Cambridge Broadband Networks Group has launched a Richardson, Texas base to support US customers with logistics, engineering and 5G fixed wireless roll-out.

DLMS and OpenADR strike liaison to bridge smart meter data and demand response signals as utilities push for common grid-edge standards.

GARR and Cubbit pilot Europe's first federated storage network for Italian universities, starting with 1 petabyte across data centres in Bologna, Rome and Bari.

Atlassian adds AI visuals and partner agents to Confluence as Remix turns pages into charts, prototypes and presentations.

Remote has acquired Bravas in a move that expands its global work platform into identity and device controls for distributed teams.

Atlassian rolls out Confluence Remix and partner agents for Lovable, Replit and Gamma to turn pages into visuals, prototypes and presentations.

Dynatrace agrees to buy Bindplane to expand telemetry pipelines, aiming to cut ingest costs and give customers greater control over observability data.

Cloudflare and GoDaddy team up to give site owners more control over AI crawlers while backing open standards to verify agent identity.

TCCA urges industry to align on international standards as 4G and 5G broadband systems expand the cyber risk for mission critical communications.

AI adoption's next phase hinges on data foundations, with enterprises needing real-time pipelines, governance and portability to scale safely.

Linux Foundation takes control of Coinbase's x402 protocol as Amazon, Visa and Mastercard back open payments standard for AI-driven web transactions.