Google and Microsoft operationalize MCP across core platforms while Docker, Okta, and Snowflake redefine agent security. Enterprises are standardizing how agents connect, execute, and are controlled in production.
Model choice is becoming commoditized. Microsoft, OpenAI, and Meta are all converging on the same battleground: execution, security, and control over how agents operate in production.
OpenAI lands a record $110B round, Anthropic clashes with the Department of War, Google launches Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, and agent infrastructure speeds up.
Open-standard momentum accelerates: AAIF scales to 146 members, Atlassian connects Jira and Rovo to third-party tools via MCP, and Anthropic sets defense boundaries for Claude.
This week in MCP: Slack’s agent-native servers, Google’s Managed MCP for Spanner, Cloud SQL and more, Gemini 3.1 Pro and Deep Think, Claude Sonnet 4.6, Microsoft’s Security Dashboard for AI,…
This week’s MCP Weekly: EU probes Meta’s WhatsApp AI lockout, OpenAI ships Frontier and tests ChatGPT ads, Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.6, plus hosted MCP.