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A Hacker News 'Ask HN' post questions whether Anthropic's Model Context Protocol, despite early hype, is actually being deployed in production systems. The poster asks respondents to share specific use cases and explain what benefits MCP offers over traditional APIs, direct tool integrations, or CLI-based workflows.
Anthropic has launched a developer blueprint that provides pre-built harnesses, patterns and guardrails for creating AI shopping and merchant agents using Claude. The kit includes reference implementations for retail, travel, telecom and ticketing use cases, plus a Claude Code plugin, and deploys across Claude API, Amazon Bedrock, Microsoft Foundry and Google Cloud Vertex AI. Partners such as Accenture, Mastercard and Visa are collaborating to help merchants adopt the framework ahead of the holiday shopping season.
Microsoft announced it will begin reporting Azure cloud revenue every quarter, ending years of disclosing only growth percentages. The move accompanies a restructuring that reduces the company's operating segments from three to two, its first such change since 2015.
Reliance Jio has expanded its JioPC cloud computing service beyond its own broadband subscribers, making it available to anyone with an internet connection regardless of telecom provider. The service streams a virtual PC with up to eight virtual CPUs, 16GB RAM and 1TB storage, letting even computers up to eight years old run modern AI applications without hardware upgrades. Subscriptions range from about $11 for two months to roughly $53 for a full year of the higher-spec plan.
Adobe announced that Slack users can now invoke apps like Firefly, Photoshop, Premiere, Acrobat and Illustrator directly through Slack's AI assistant, Slackbot, which interprets requests and calls the right Adobe tool while factoring in conversation context. Separately, more than 70 Adobe tools are being made available through a new Adobe for Slack MCP app. The integration launches first for Slack Business+ and Enterprise+ customers.
Adobe has released an Adobe for Slack MCP app that connects Slackbot to more than 70 creative and productivity tools, including Photoshop, Firefly, Acrobat, Premiere, Illustrator and InDesign. The integration lets teams generate, edit and search creative assets directly inside Slack conversations, using context from messages, files and channels to trigger the right Adobe tool. It is available now to Slack Business+ and Enterprise+ customers globally, with basic use possible without an Adobe account and full features unlocked by signing in.
Pearl Abyss has launched a free 20-minute playable demo of Crimson Desert that runs entirely through Twitch's cloud streaming, requiring no download or installation. The demo works on any device with a web browser, though notably not on current game consoles. It coincides with the rollout of Crimson Desert Enhanced, a major free update released last week.
IBM has released an open source initiative called the CE Store, providing a research environment for ITA Controlled English, a structured form of English designed to be readable by both people and machines. The system lets users define concepts and instances through simple English sentences that form data models, and it can be deployed via IBM Cloud or run locally by cloning the code from GitHub.
Razer has released the Prio, a compact USB-C gamepad for iOS and Android phones that folds flat for portability. It fits phones up to seven inches with slim-to-medium cases, includes a D-pad, face buttons, bumpers, triggers and anti-drift analog thumbsticks, and works with cloud gaming services like Xbox Cloud Gaming, PS Remote Play and Steam Link. It's available now for $100.
Anthropic has struck a $35 billion cloud infrastructure deal centered on a Texas data center, with Nvidia supplying the chips and holding the lease itself. The arrangement lets Nvidia use its balance sheet to underpin the buildout rather than Anthropic financing the hardware directly.
A team integrated the OpenTelemetry Ruby SDK into a Rails application to export logs straight to Grafana Cloud, skipping the usual Collector process entirely. They relied on the SDK's built-in batching since their log volume was low, and required a handful of gems including opentelemetry-sdk and opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-logs.
Pharmaceutical distributor McKesson confirmed hackers broke into several cloud-hosted accounts and stole data tied to its oncology and medical-surgical units. The ShinyHunters group told TechCrunch it used phishing and social engineering to trick employees into granting access, then pulled millions of rows of patient records from Snowflake and Salesforce environments, including names, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, medications, and employee home addresses.