The open source Model Context Protocol was just updated — here’s why it’s a big deal

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The Model Context Protocol (MCP)—a rising open standard designed to help AI agents interact seamlessly with tools, data, and interfaces—just hit a significant milestone. Today, developers behind the initiative finalized an updated version of the MCP spec, introducing key upgrades to make AI agents more secure, capable and interoperable. [Update: In a very significant move, OpenAI, the industry leader in generative AI, followed the MCP announcement today by saying it also is adding support for MCP across its products. CEO Sam Altman said the support is available today in OpenAI’s Agents SDK and that support for ChatGPT’s desktop app and the Responses API would be coming soon.] In a notable move, two days ago Microsoft also recently announced support for MCP alongside this release, including launching a new Playwright-MCP server that allows AI agents like Clau ... Read full article.