- 07-29 MCP just became infrastructure — and put a 12-month clock on the server you already shipped
The 2026-07-28 spec drops MCP's session handshake, hardens auth, and ships day-one across four SDKs with six hyperscalers behind it — the protocol crossed from experiment to backed standard, which resets both the positioning window and the migration bill.
- 07-26 A checkpoint before the tool call: 'agent-safe by design' is becoming a category
In two weeks at least five teams shipped the same primitive — a policy gate between an AI agent and an irreversible action — and independent research is now naming it. The category is forming; the positioning window is open.
- 07-23 GitHub's Copilot dashboard now counts the seats nobody uses
A new enterprise dashboard sorts Copilot seats into adoption-phase cohorts and breaks out a "Passive" segment — GitHub productizing the adoption story its buyers are being asked to prove.
- 07-22 GitHub Code Quality shipped the default AI price: a seat, plus a meter
GitHub Code Quality went GA at $10 per committer a month with metered AI billing on top — the same seat-plus-meter shape Copilot and CodeRabbit already charge, now extended from writing code to reviewing it.
- 07-28 Latent Space: Akshay Nathan on taking Codex from zero to ten million users
OpenAI's Akshay Nathan discusses building ChatGPT Work and the growth of Codex, around the claim that there are roughly 100x more people who use code than can write it — the bet being that this larger group is the real prize if the agentic interface is right. The episode notes say Codex monthly actives are up more than 10x this year, a figure quoted from the show's own tracking rather than a published OpenAI number.
- 07-28 Anthropic: MCP goes stateless in its largest revision since launch
The 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol spec drops `initialize` and session IDs so any server instance can answer any request behind a plain load balancer, graduates Tasks and MCP Apps into a versioned extensions framework, and hardens auth with RFC 9207 issuer validation in place of Dynamic Client Registration. All four Tier-1 SDKs shipped support on publication day, with AWS, Cloudflare, Figma, Google Cloud, Microsoft and Netlify publicly committed.