acqui-hireStilla Promised Continuity. Meta Bought It for WhatsApp.
Stilla's founders promised continuity the day Meta's purchase was reported. Meta's own stated reason for buying is merchant messaging on WhatsApp, not the workplace agent you run on Slack and GitHub. The continuity promise came from the party about to stop existing.
September 9, 2026 · 13 min readA2A protocolIBM Wired 6 Agents With A2A. Then Couldn't Upgrade Them.
IBM's TLS platform standardized every agent boundary on A2A and every tool boundary on MCP, which let five of its six specialist agents be built by outside teams. It also left the platform team unable to push a better reasoning pattern into agents it doesn't own — even though every agent already imports the library that contains it.
August 26, 2026 · 14 min readagent platformToyota Ships an Agent in 4 Days. One Review Covers 50.
Toyota Motor North America cut agent delivery from six months and six engineers to four days and one engineer. The saving came from amortizing security review and ingestion into a shared platform — which now leaves one permission gate holding back 50+ agents.
August 25, 2026 · 10 min read