
The Agent Identity Gap: The Trend Quietly Defining Enterprise AI in 2026
AI agents crossed the line from demo to coworker this year, and the whole industry is now racing to answer a question nobody asked during the pilot phase: who is this agent, what is it allowed to do, and can we prove what it did? Adoption is real but shallow, interoperability standards finally landed at the Linux Foundation, and regulators and security researchers are converging on identity and governance as the make-or-break layer. Here is what the primary sources actually say, and what it means for anyone deploying agents.







































