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News of the day
1. Linux Foundation launches Agent Name Service (ANS) to give AI agents verifiable identities using DNS, building on existing internet trust structures. → Read more
2. Cursor unveils its first in-house AI model, alongside a new Git platform and a mobile app, expanding its developer tools. → Read more
3. ASML's $400 million chipmaking machines face competition, while Anthropic clashes with the government over AI export controls. → Read more
4. OpenAI enhances its Daybreak cybersecurity program with Patch the Planet, an updated Codex Security plugin, and the full GPT-5.5-Cyber model. → Read more
Our take
Hi Dotikers!
The last edition lingered on the price war, with GPT-5.6 slashing the cost per token while its rivals suddenly went quiet. This week the front shifts a notch, toward the plumbing. And the players elbowing their way in are not the ones you would expect.
On Tuesday, the Linux Foundation announced its intent to launch the Agent Name Service, an open standard meant to give AI agents a verifiable identity. The idea: graft that identity onto DNS, the trusty old system that has been translating domain names for thirty years. An operator proves it controls a domain, much as you already do with Let's Encrypt, and gets a pair of certificates. Every status change is then written to a tamper-proof registry. For discovery, a second standard, DNS-AID, lets agents find one another. The two work hand in hand.
On paper, it is elegant. You do not reinvent the wheel, you extend the trust of the internet to agents. Except that the ones most eager to sell that wheel are precisely the ones who live off it: GoDaddy registers domains, Identity Digital runs extensions, Infoblox sells DNS infrastructure. Wiring agent identity onto DNS simply prolongs an already comfortable business.
The catch is that security specialists have long filed this trust hierarchy among the most fragile links of the internet. Resting the identity of autonomous AI on foundations this contested takes a certain nerve.
That leaves the notable no-shows. Google, Anthropic, Microsoft and Amazon, which carry most of the agentic ecosystem, are watching without moving. There are already at least four competing standards. The recent history of tech suggests we will soon have a fifth, inevitably pitched as the one that will finally unite all the others.
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