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Anthropic:
Anthropic donates the Model Context Protocol to the Agentic AI Foundation and says there are now more than 10,000 active public MCP servers  —  Today, we're donating the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), a directed fund under the Linux Foundation …

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Spanish police arrest a suspected 19-year-old hacker in Barcelona over allegedly stealing and attempting to sell 64M records from breaches at nine companies  —  The National Police in Spain have arrested a suspected 19-year-old hacker in Barcelona, for allegedly stealing and attempting …

Will Knight / Wired:
Anthropic, OpenAI, Block, Google, AWS, Microsoft, and others launch the Agentic AI Foundation to build open-source agent standards under the Linux Foundation  —  American AI giants are backing a new effort to establish open standards for building agentic software and tools.

Ben Weiss / Fortune:
Circle launches USDCx, a privacy-focused version of its USDC stablecoin on the Aleo blockchain, to give users “banking-level privacy” with a “compliance record”  —  Blockchains are public databases.  That's an immediate roadblock for large institutions like banks …