• Linux Foundation Newsletter: December 2025 The Linux Foundation | 17 December 2025 Welcome to the December 2025 edition of the Linux Foundation Newsletter. • Winter is nearly here, and the Linux Foundation open source ecosystem continues to break new ground. • This month, we announced the formation of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), bringing together critical open standards and frameworks - including Model Context Protocol (MCP), AGENTS.md and goose - for next‑gen AI agents under a neutral, community‑driven umbrella. • We also saw continued growth in global collaboration, advances in infrastructure and AI tooling, and strategic developments across projects that are shaping the future of open technology. • Thank you to all the contributors, maintainers, members, and staff driving this impact forward and have a wonderful holiday season. • Here are more of this month’s highlights: - Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) Launches to Advance Open Standards for AI Agents Last week we announced the launch of the AAIF with contributions from Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), Block’s goose agent framework, and OpenAI’s AGENTS.md, with membership support from AWS, Google, Microsoft, Bloomberg, Cloudflare, Cisco, and other leading organizations.
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- Linux Foundation Newsletter - December 2025
The Linux Foundation’s December 2025 newsletter highlights the launch of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), a new community‑driven umbrella for open standards and frameworks that enable next‑generation AI agents. AAIF brings together key contributions from Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), Block’s goose agent framework, and OpenAI’s AGENTS.md, with backing from major industry players such as AWS, Google, Microsoft, Bloomberg, Cloudflare, and Cisco. The initiative aims to standardize agentic AI systems as they scale across sectors. Additional notes include a new research report on open‑source adoption in Japan, Mitsubishi Electric’s Gold Membership, the launch of the Open Robust Compartmentalization Alliance (ORCA), and updates on openIDL, SoDeV, and Xen 4.21.
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