
VS Code 1.110 Gives AI Agents Native Browser Control
VS Code 1.110 ships native browser control for AI agents, installable agent plugins with MCP support, persistent session memory, and a new Agent Debug panel.
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VS Code 1.110 ships native browser control for AI agents, installable agent plugins with MCP support, persistent session memory, and a new Agent Debug panel.

Apple plans to unveil Core AI at WWDC 2026, a modernized framework replacing Core ML that opens the door to third-party AI models and MCP integration across its entire ecosystem.

From Claude 101 to MCP Advanced to Agent Skills - Anthropic's free curriculum on Skilljar covers everything from basic prompting to production deployments on AWS Bedrock and Google Vertex AI.

Apple releases Xcode 26.3 with native support for Claude Agent and OpenAI Codex, exposing 20 MCP tools that let AI agents build, test, and visually verify iOS apps autonomously.

Figma integrates OpenAI Codex via its MCP server just nine days after adding Claude Code, turning the design tool into a universal bridge between design and AI-powered coding.

The French government's digital agency Etalab shipped an open-source MCP server for data.gouv.fr, giving AI agents structured access to 74,000 public datasets without an API key.

A security researcher found that the mcp-kali-server package - shipped in Kali's official repos - interpolates AI-supplied parameters directly into shell commands with shell=True, enabling trivial arbitrary command execution.

Kali Linux's new Claude AI integration funnels scan results, target IPs, and discovered vulnerabilities through Anthropic's cloud API, and the guide's only privacy note is a parenthetical shrug.

Anthropic launched 13 new MCP connectors, department-specific plugins, and a private enterprise marketplace for Claude Cowork, deepening the SaaS disruption that has already wiped $285 billion off software stocks since January.

Perplexity's new Computer product breaks tasks into sub-agents routed across Claude, Gemini, GPT-5.2, and Grok, running autonomously for days or months in isolated cloud sandboxes. Available now for Max subscribers at $200/month.

Check Point Research disclosed three vulnerabilities in Anthropic's Claude Code CLI that allowed remote code execution and API key theft through malicious project configuration files - all triggered before trust prompts appeared.

Intuit will use Anthropic's Claude Agent SDK and Model Context Protocol to deploy autonomous AI agents across its financial product suite starting spring 2026.