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.
Market Signals
Weekly analysis of the companies, protocols, product moves, standards work, and platform shifts shaping the agentic web.
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.
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.
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.
Agentic web market signals: advertising, commerce & identity layers emerging
This week's market signals look at the emerging economic layers of the agentic web: advertising standards, agentic commerce infrastructure, plus identity and discovery systems for AI agents.
Google's agentic web stack takes shape — but publisher economics remain unresolved
At I/O, Google pushed Chrome, Search and dev tools toward an agentic web. But the harder question is economic: who gets paid when agents use the web? Index by Parallel offers one solution.
Welcome to Agentic Web News: signals, interviews and analysis on the next phase of the web
Tracking how the agentic web is taking shape — through market signals, builder interviews, and analysis of the products and standards defining what's next.