MCP

The 2026-07-28 MCP release candidate makes the protocol core stateless, formalizes an Extensions framework, and deprecates Roots, Sampling, and Logging. The RC locked May 21 for a July 28 final.

Red Hat used its May 12 Summit keynote to take Red Hat Desktop with Podman Desktop and isolated AI agent sandboxing to general availability, and to preview Red Hat AI 3.4 with vLLM speculative decoding, Model-as-a-Service, MCP tooling, and an agent evaluation hub.

Roblox unveiled an agentic upgrade to its Studio Assistant on April 16, adding a Planning Mode, natural-language Mesh Generation, code-driven Procedural Models, and a playtesting agent that reads logs and uses inputs to find bugs.

At TrailblazerDX 2026, Salesforce unveiled Headless 360, exposing its full platform as APIs, MCP tools, and CLI commands so AI coding agents can build and operate on Salesforce without a browser.

A missing authentication check on a Model Context Protocol endpoint in nginx-ui exposes roughly 2,600 servers to full takeover, and unauthenticated exploitation is practical when paired with a second flaw that leaks a required node secret.

Cursor's April 2 release shifts the product toward multi-agent orchestration, with cloud-local handoff, review artifacts, and a plugin marketplace.

Equinix has launched Fabric Intelligence, an AI-native operational layer for its 4,400-customer interconnection platform that exposes network provisioning through natural language agents and MCP servers.

Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0 unifies Semantic Kernel's enterprise foundations with AutoGen's multi-agent orchestration into one open-source SDK for .NET and Python, with support for A2A and MCP protocols.

The Copilot SDK, now in public preview with support for five languages and bring-your-own-key authentication, exposes the same agent runtime powering GitHub Copilot CLI as a programmable library for building custom AI-driven tools and workflows.

Google's AI design tool gains voice commands, multi-screen generation, and developer tool integrations, triggering a two-day selloff in Figma shares.

Figma's new use_figma MCP tool gives coding agents write access to design files, while a markdown-based Skills framework lets teams encode conventions for agent-driven workflows.

Docker has embedded the Model Context Protocol into Docker Hub and Desktop, growing its MCP Catalog to 270-plus servers and shipping experimental Dynamic MCP for agents that discover tools at runtime.