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[AINews] not much happened today

Latent Space Blog · Sep 10, 2026

Anthropic acknowledges serious cybersecurity failures in AI model evaluations.

“the company said four incidents occurred during third-party cybersecurity evaluations that were mistakenly connected to the internet, with normal safeguards disabled.”
Evolution of MCP auth

Microsoft Developer (Build) · Sep 10, 2026

MCP authentication is evolving to better address developer needs.

“I'm a firm believer that the vast majority of developers don't want to care unless they absolutely have to.”
A unified MCP layer with Toolboxes in Microsoft Foundry

Microsoft Developer (Build) · Sep 10, 2026

Microsoft Foundry introduces a unified MCP layer with Toolboxes for streamlined development.

“So, what this means is all the tools and functions that you have built over the last 20 years are probably going to be need to surface to this agent layer.”
MCP: Server, Client & Protocol at GitHub

Microsoft Developer (Build) · Sep 10, 2026

GitHub MCP server now supports the newest MCP spec.

“I've been watching the charts on our side and seeing the traffic going up and up.”
State of MCP

Microsoft Developer (Build) · Sep 10, 2026

MCP project has reached significant community growth and milestone achievements.

“MCP is a community-driven project and how it's continued to grow and continue to have feedback.”
MCP auth: Stop registering, Start linking

Microsoft Developer (Build) · Sep 10, 2026

MCP transitions from dynamic client registration to client ID metadata documents.

“we'd like us to stop registering and I'd like us to stop registering and start linking.”
Quoting Calif Research

Simon Willison · Sep 10, 2026

WeWorm is the first zero-click worm that spreads via WeChat calls.

“AI can already do most of the work here.”