AI agents are getting their own search engine

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• Google and Microsoft are backing ARD for AI agent discovery.
• ARD could help agents find tools, skills, and other agents.
• The same discovery layer may also create new security risks.

I'm always a bit nervous when a (oh, heck, I'm gonna say it) cabal of giant corporations that are normally fierce rivals starts working together on a project.

This time, Google, Microsoft, GoDaddy, Hugging Face, NVIDIA, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Databricks, Snowflake, GitHub, and Cisco are all announcing a new standard called Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD), an open specification for publishing, discovering, and verifying AI capabilities across the web. Google and Microsoft both have blog posts announcing the partnership.

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