My week at the AI Engineer World's Fair
AI Engineer World’s Fair showed how quickly the AI builder ecosystem is scaling, with San Francisco again feeling like the center of a new web-era boom.
Richard MacManus
Agentic web market signals: the agent stack becomes enterprise infrastructure
From agent frameworks and MCP integrations to identity governance and open discovery, this week’s market signals show the agent stack rapidly gaining adoption in the enterprise.
Nekuda's WebMCP bet: Agentic commerce still needs the website
Nekuda is betting that agentic commerce will augment websites, not replace them, with WebMCP providing the bridge between agents and merchant-controlled experiences.
The agentic web gets execution rights, from payments to app actions
Visa, Mastercard, Apple, OpenAI and Google are building the payment, action, execution and knowledge layers agents need to act.
MCP Apps and the future of software inside AI agents
MCP Apps is turning UI over MCP into a candidate application layer for AI assistants, but discovery and ranking remain unresolved.
Agentic web market signals: the machine-readable web becomes a business problem
Bot traffic, grounding APIs, atomic brand systems, and CMS deals point to a new commercial layer forming around AI agents.
Who owns that AI agent? DNSid proposes an answer
DNSid sets out a DNS-based accountability layer for AI agents, aimed at answering who owns an agent and who is responsible for its actions.