The 'Father of the Internet' is finally retiring

Vinton Cerf, the 83-year-old co-creator of TCP/IP — the foundational rules that allow different computer networks to communicate — is retiring from Google after 20 years as chief internet evangelist. Beyond celebrating his career, Cerf made a notable prediction: that AI agents interacting autonomously will eventually require formal technical standards, much like the internet protocols he helped build in the 1970s.