standards

HSBC has joined an APAC banking consortium led by the Emerging Payments Association Asia to develop industry-wide standards for agentic AI payments, addressing machine-to-machine trust, authorization, and liability.

A comprehensive technical guide to USB Type-C from Texas Instruments, covering hardware design and implementation for engineers.

Vint Cerf is advising Innovation Labs on developing an open standard (DNSid) for identifying and auditing AI agents on the open internet, aiming to create accountability and interoperability as autonomous agents become more prevalent.

Wi-Fi 8 shifts focus from speed to reliability, stability, and lower latency, introducing features like Multi-Access Point Coordination and Seamless Roaming Domain. The standard is not yet finalized but promises significant improvements in connection quality.

The article argues that before AI agents can be widely deployed, they need verifiable identity and auditability to ensure trust and accountability. The ITU is working on international standards for this.

Miles Brundage comments that the news about OpenAI's safety head leaving being widely concerning indicates a policy failure, and calls for industry-wide safety standards and audits.

The article criticizes the IETF for evading responsibility in its handling of the non-hybrid TLS-ML-KEM standard, focusing on the organization's accountability in cryptographic standardization.

At the June 2026 C++ standards committee meeting in Brno, three papers enabling lifetime-end pointer zap were voted into C++29, solving a problem since the 1998 standard, and progress was made on forbidding out-of-thin-air (OOTA) values in the draft standard.

OpenAI helped found the Appia Foundation, hosted by the Linux Foundation, to develop open, modular standards for evaluating advanced AI systems, aiming to create a shared technical language for trust and safety across the AI value chain.

TokenArch Lanterns is a framework for exploring and developing standards for autonomous agents.

SMPTE has made its entire Standards catalog freely available to the global media technology community, aiming to accelerate adoption, implementation, and innovation in the industry.

ADP (Agent Discovery Protocol) has been accepted into the ISE formal review queue, a significant milestone in the path toward potential adoption as a recognized standard.

RFC 10008 defines the new HTTP QUERY method, allowing safe, idempotent, and cacheable requests with a body, addressing limitations of GET and POST for RPC-style APIs.

A technical exploration of ANSI escape codes, their origins in 1970s terminals, and their enduring relevance in modern CLI tools and terminal UIs.

A blog post discussing the challenges of standards and interoperability, using the example of a base64 encoding bug in Subresource Integrity (SRI) that took a decade to surface, leading to a specification update.

Google has published its internal Code Review standards, which can be used by AI agents to perform code reviews with Google-level quality, covering approval criteria, blocking conditions, and feedback norms.

The LLVM Foundation has released a statement advocating for open access to standards documents, aiming to increase transparency and community involvement.

The article traces the evolution of SQL's ORDER BY clause from the 1980s to modern standards, clarifying common misunderstandings about syntax and evaluation order.

Comprehensive educational guide explaining Wi-Fi standards from 802.11n (Wi-Fi 4) through 802.11bn (Wi-Fi 8), covering technical details like MIMO, DFS channels, throughput expectations, and practical router recommendations for consumers.

OpenAI publishes a policy research paper identifying four strategies to improve industry cooperation on AI safety norms: communicating risks/benefits, technical collaboration, increased transparency, and incentivizing standards. The analysis addresses how competitive pressures could lead to under-investment in safety and proposes mechanisms to align incentives toward safe AI development.