Everybody wants to rule the world

The article argues that emerging alliances around AI agent governance can help standardize security and interoperability, but they also risk locking enterprises into incumbent vendor ecosystems and turning governance into a procurement decision. For CIOs, the strategic implication is to treat AI governance as an architecture and control problem—not a product checkbox—because agent scale will create new exposure in identity, logging, portability, and auditability, and the real business risk is verification debt, not sticker price.