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Meta, Walmart, Stripe launch open standard for AI agents
A Yahoo Tech news report on an open standard from Meta, Walmart and Stripe for AI agents that shop and pay on users' behalf.
#ai-agents#commerce#payments#standards
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11 free resources on this topic. Everything here is free and hand-picked. You can also search within this topic.
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AI Policy & Ethics
NIST AI Consortium Members
The National Institute of Standards and Technology's alphabetical list of member organizations in its AI consortium, ranging from AI labs such as Anthropic and Cohere to universities, safety research groups, civil-society organizations and companies across industries.
#nist#government#ai safety#standards
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Technology & Ethics
NIST Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI)
Home page of NIST's Center for AI Standards and Innovation, the U.S. government office working with industry on AI measurement, evaluations and standards.
#ai-governance#standards#ai-safety#government
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NIST Computer Security Resource Center (CSRC)
The US government's public library of cybersecurity standards, guidance and publications, including the SP 800 series, project pages, news and events.
From the site: CSRC provides access to NIST's cybersecurity- and information security-related projects, publications, news and events.
Why I recommend it: Free and public, no account needed. This is the primary source behind most security "best practice" advice you will read elsewhere, so cite it directly rather than a blog summarising it.
#cybersecurity#standards#nist#government#publications#security-frameworks
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NIST AI Risk Management Framework
The US government's voluntary framework for identifying and managing AI risk, plus its playbook of concrete practices. Free.
Why I recommend it: The one your employer's legal team is most likely already citing. Useful vocabulary if you want to raise AI risk at work and be taken seriously.
#ai ethics#ai-policy#ai-safety#compliance#free#governance#government#regulation#risk-management#standards#technology-and-ethics#workplace
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AGENTS.md
An open format for telling coding agents how to work in your repository, now used by tens of thousands of open-source projects.
From the site: AGENTS.md is a simple, open format for guiding coding agents. Think of it as a README for agents.
Why I recommend it: If you're experimenting with AI coding tools, this is the convention to follow so your instructions actually get read.
#ai#agents#coding#open-source#developer-tools#standards#documentation#free-resource#automation#tech-jobs
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Open Source Initiative
The stewards of the Open Source Definition, with plain-language explanations of every approved licence and guidance on choosing one for your own project.
Why I recommend it: Read this before you publish code or a template — the license you pick decides what others can legally do with your work.
#ai#developer#documentation#entrepreneurship#governance#legal#licensing#nonprofit#open-source#regulation#standards
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Code Contracts
A free open format for writing structured assumptions and requirements next to the code itself, so AI coding agents build against stated rules rather than guesses.
Why I recommend it: Relevant even if you do not write code: it is a clear example of writing requirements precisely enough that a machine can follow them.
#ai#developer-tools#ai-agents#open-source#coding#specifications#software-engineering#free-tools#standards#documentation
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Guardrails Alliance
Coalition advocating for safety standards and guardrails on AI systems.
#advocacy#ai#ai ethics#ai-ethics#ai-policy#ai-safety#free#organization#policy#regulation#resources#standards#tech-ethics#technology
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AI Systems Are Getting More Powerful. The Ability to Verify Must Keep Pace.
Jake Taylor argues that public, standardized AI testing with formal reasoning checks is needed to close the widening "verification asymmetry" between AI capability and oversight.
Why I recommend it: If you want to work in AI governance or assurance, this is the vocabulary hiring managers use — verification, benchmarks, interpretability.
#ai#ai ethics#ai-ethics#ai-policy#ai-safety#article#caisi#free#governance#nist#policy#reading#regulation#standards#tech-ethics#tech-policy-press#technology#verification
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Entrepreneurship & Free Tools
B Lab (B Corp)
Nonprofit network behind the B Corp certification, helping businesses balance profit and purpose through verified social and environmental standards.
In plain terms: This nonprofit organization certifies companies that meet verified social and environmental standards. You can search a global directory of certified employers or use their guides and tools to measure and certify your own business.
Why I recommend it: Their free impact assessment is a useful business health check even if you never certify.
#certification#entrepreneurship#free#nonprofit#organization#resources#small-business#small-business-owner#social-enterprise#social-impact#standards