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OpenAI, Anthropic, Block and major cloud providers are co-founding the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation to steward open, interoperable standards for AI agents.

OpenAI→Anthropic→Block→Google→Microsoft→Amazon Web Services→Bloomberg→Cloudflare→Cisco→Agentic AI Foundation

Founding members created the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation to fund and govern open standards like MCP, goose and AGENTS.md for interoperable agentic AI.

Anthropic→OpenAI→Block→Google→Microsoft→Amazon Web Services→Bloomberg→Cloudflare→Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF)

Microsoft pledged $23 billion in new AI investments, led by a $17.5 billion India program and a $5.4 billion Canada program to build data centers, hyperscale cloud and AI skills.

Microsoft→India (cloud and AI infrastructure projects)→Canada (cloud and AI infrastructure projects)

Microsoft will invest US$17.5 billion over four years to expand AI and cloud infrastructure, sovereign cloud solutions and AI skilling programs across India.

Microsoft→Microsoft India and South Asia operations

Nvidia bought $2 billion of Synopsys stock in a strategic move to secure advanced EDA software capabilities for AI chip design.

Nvidia→Synopsys