When Giants Align: Microsoft Adopts Google’s AI Agent Standard

A quiet but significant move just happened in the AI world: Microsoft has adopted Google’s “Agent Protocol” — a standard for how AI agents communicate, collaborate, and hand off tasks to one another.

At first glance, this may seem technical. But for in-house legal, policy, and product teams, it’s a flashing signal: interoperability is no longer theoretical — it’s becoming operational. When the biggest players agree on a shared standard, the ecosystem starts to take shape fast.

What does this mean for risk and governance? AI agents coordinating tasks across platforms raises new questions around accountability, delegation, and data exposure. Who’s responsible when one agent “calls” another and something goes wrong? What if those agents work across jurisdictions or have differing privacy or IP assumptions?

Standardization is coming — not just for convenience, but for control. And that means legal frameworks must evolve from focusing on individual tools to thinking about systems of agents acting together.

It’s an exciting moment, but also a complex one. Let’s make sure our risk models, governance policies, and contracts are evolving just as quickly.

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