The Model Context Protocol, the open standard that has quietly become the connective tissue between AI agents and the world's software, is getting its largest update since Anthropic released it twenty months ago — a sweeping architectural revision that its maintainers and backers…

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. OpenAI called the Hugging Face attack unprecedented. But we’ve been here before.  —Will Douglas Heaven, senior AI editor Reading OpenAI’s acco…

Instacart is posing the provocative question: What if most of the work your engineers do today should, in fact, be done by machines? At VB Transform 2026, CTO Anirban Kundu argued that dev teams continue to waste their time on draining, repetitive, high-volume work; this should b…

The journalist couple were stalked for the critical pieces they published about eBay.

Ozlo’s first major update to its sleep earbuds introduces longer battery life, improved connectivity, enhanced audio, and new sleep features as the startup continues the product line once abandoned by Bose.

Every phone now ships with an assistant. You ask, it answers. Lame. We built a phone that writes software instead. The app idea you’ve had in your notes for years. The side hustle you will never get around to building. The weird thing only you would want. Describe it, answer a fe…