# 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

1. **Gemini 3.5 Flash** (Google DeepMind, 18 May 2026): 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](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-5/) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-05-18-week-in-ai#item-1)
2. **Self-hosted sandboxes and MCP tunnels for Managed Agents** (Anthropic, 18 May 2026): May 19 let agents run in your own sandboxes and reach private MCP servers through a tunnel, in research preview. [Primary source](https://claude.com/blog/claude-managed-agents-updates) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-05-18-week-in-ai#item-6)
3. **Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation** (Anthropic, 8 Dec 2025): MCP, goose and AGENTS.md move under a Linux Foundation fund so no single lab controls the plumbing. [Primary source](https://www.anthropic.com/news/donating-the-model-context-protocol-and-establishing-of-the-agentic-ai-foundation) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2025-12-08-week-in-ai#item-2)

## Posts

- 2026-05-18 [Gemini 3.5 Flash at I/O, Qwen3.7-Max, Cursor Composer 2.5](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-05-18-week-in-ai)
- 2025-12-08 [GPT-5.2 lands, MCP moves to a foundation, Devstral 2 and GLM-4.6V](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2025-12-08-week-in-ai)

Canonical: https://heyaliasif.com/ai/topics/mcp