MCP

On the evening of June 18, the official Model Context Protocol blog published Enterprise-Managed Authorization: Zero-touch OAuth for MCP. Core maintainer Paul Carleton kept the tone measured, but the news was substantial: the EMA extension moved from draft to stable, and it crossed 226 points on Hacker News within hours. The same day, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Okta endorsed it; Asana, Atlassian, Canva, Figma, Granola, Linear, and Supabase all flipped on support, and Visual Studio Code wired it into the IDE. ...

Over the past few days, one idea has become harder for me to ignore: personal agents are finally moving beyond the clever chat box. They are starting to grow a skeleton. For a long time, the default question around AI assistants was simple: how smart is the model? That still matters, of course. But it is no longer enough. A personal agent that can actually help you over time needs more than a strong model. It needs at least three things: rules, memory, and tool access. ...