Ali Asif

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MCP: what I’ve logged

MCP comes up in 2 posts of my AI log, from December 2025 to May 2026, and each item below links to the primary source. The sources come from Google DeepMind and Anthropic, filed under frontier, agents and coding and image, video, world.

Items that mention MCP

  1. Google DeepMind 18 May 2026

    Gemini 3.5 Flash

    First model of the 3.5 family, reported at 76.2% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and 83.6% on MCP Atlas, and the new default in the Gemini app and AI Mode.

    Primary source

  2. Anthropic 18 May 2026

    Self-hosted sandboxes and MCP tunnels for Managed Agents

    May 19 let agents run in your own sandboxes and reach private MCP servers through a tunnel, in research preview.

    Primary source

  3. Anthropic 8 Dec 2025

    Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation

    MCP, goose and AGENTS.md move under a Linux Foundation fund so no single lab controls the plumbing.

    Primary source

Posts that cover MCP

May 20261 entry

  1. Week of 18 May 2026Gemini 3.5 Flash at I/O, Qwen3.7-Max, Cursor Composer 2.5Frontier · Agents and coding · Image, video, world · Science

December 20251 entry

  1. Week of 8 Dec 2025GPT-5.2 lands, MCP moves to a foundation, Devstral 2 and GLM-4.6VFrontier · Agents and coding · Open weights · Image, video, world · Policy and business