In a moment that rarely arrives in technology—when rivals choose shared foundations over proprietary advantage—Google transferred its A2A protocol to the Agentic AI Foundation, uniting it with Anthropic's Model Context Protocol under neutral Linux Foundation governance. The two standards, one governing how agents speak to each other and one governing how they reach into the world's tools and data, now evolve together rather than apart. What this consolidation signals is less a technical event than a civilizational one: the infrastructure of autonomous machine collaboration is being built in th