The most consequential AI news of the past year came from a standards body. In December 2025, Anthropic donated the Model Context Protocol to the newly formed Agentic AI Foundation, a directed fund under the Linux Foundation cofounded by Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI, with support from Google, Microsoft, AWS, Cloudflare, and Bloomberg. Six months earlier, […]

During a service incident, a customer-remediation workflow is moved onto an emergency route because the situation is critical and the team needs a fast resolution. Approvals are shortened, a priority queue is opened, and an on-call agent is cleared to use an alternate procedure until the service recovers. The incident ends, but the route stays […]