WebRTC started in the browser, and it now also runs on servers: SFUs, gateways, cloud gaming, recording, and AI media agents. Each of these services needs a server-side WebRTC implementation, the protocol stack that lets a backend program act as a peer. Google’s libwebrtc, the most widely
When Jeff Pulver invited me to attend Voice and Conversations on the Net (VON) 2026 on behalf of WebRTC.ventures, I accepted immediately. Three days with people building the next generation of voice communications was an easy yes. While at the conference earlier this week, the enthusiasm for
Microsoft will retire Azure Communication Services (ACS) as a standalone offering on September 30, 2028. After that date, Microsoft supports ACS video only in applications that connect to Microsoft Teams. Companies that use ACS to embed video in their own products will need a new platform, and
An AI chatbot built on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), where it answers by pulling from your own knowledge sources, is only as safe as the content it is allowed to retrieve. The failure happens when retrieval runs with no notion of who is asking: the agent searches the
