Interoperability

One year ago, the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Protocol launched as a proposed standard for how AI agents talk to each other. Today, it’s not a proposal anymore — it’s infrastructure. The Linux Foundation-hosted project announced its one-year milestone on April 9, 2026, with a headline that would have seemed optimistic twelve months ago: 150+ supporting organizations, native integration inside Google, Microsoft, and AWS cloud platforms, and active production deployments spanning supply chain, financial services, insurance, and IT operations. ...

At MWC 2026 in Barcelona, Huawei made a move that the agentic AI builder community should pay attention to: the company announced the open-source release of A2A-T — an Agent-to-Agent protocol purpose-built for telecom infrastructure. It’s the first time a Tier-1 carrier equipment vendor has put its weight behind a standardized inter-agent communication protocol. Important caveat up front: this is a press announcement from Huawei at an industry conference. The open-source repository details are sparse, and multiple reports frame this as “to be released during MWC” rather than live-now. Verify availability before building on it. ...