
Untangling Agentic AI Protocols
Four emerging protocols define how agents connect, coordinate, transact, and pay: MCP and A2A for connection and coordination, ACP and AP2 for commerce and payment.
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Four emerging protocols define how agents connect, coordinate, transact, and pay: MCP and A2A for connection and coordination, ACP and AP2 for commerce and payment.
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Context engineering is deciding what the model should read and how it is arranged before it replies, so outputs are grounded, auditable, and less prone to guesswork.
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Google Research’s “Nested Learning” work proposes treating a model as a set of nested optimisation problems, each with its own context flow and update rate, to address catastrophic forgetting.
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As AI assistants gain memory and optimisation, personalisation can shift from helpful recall to a tailored playbook for influencing behaviour.
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ACE is a method for making agents learn from experience by improving their context and playbooks, rather than retraining the model.
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AI systems are moving upstream into the layer that filters and structures information before it reaches conscious attention, shaping what becomes thinkable.
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