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What's changing in MCP, AI agents and messaging platforms — and what it means for your business.
EU AI Act and chatbots: the disclosure rule, and a compliance checklist for customer service
Article 50 of the EU AI Act has applied since 2 August 2026: if people can talk to your AI, you have to tell them — at the point of interaction, in their language, on every channel. Here is what the rule asks of a customer-service chatbot, what it does not, and a checklist you can finish in an afternoon.
WhatsApp's other price change: AI replies are now billed by the token
From 1 August 2026 Meta bills Business Agent conversations on tokens consumed, and from 1 October it starts charging for service replies again. Two different meters, five weeks apart, and most of the coverage only mentions one.
Most MCP servers still skip OAuth. That is the whole security story.
The specification makes OAuth 2.1 mandatory. Surveys of the public server ecosystem suggest only a small minority implement it. If you are about to connect an MCP server to an assistant that can see your work, that is the first thing to check.
MCP Shadow IT: your team is already connecting servers nobody vetted
Connecting a remote MCP server takes a URL and about ten seconds. That is the feature. It is also why a new category of shadow IT now has a name and a threat model.
MCP went stateless. What changed, and why we still speak the old protocol.
The 2026-07-28 revision removed the initialize handshake and the session header. It makes MCP servers scale like any other HTTP service — and it leaves every client that has not caught up behind.
MCP is not one vendor's protocol any more
Anthropic donated the Model Context Protocol to the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation in December 2025. If lock-in was your objection to building on MCP, it no longer holds.
Who pays when the agent buys? AP2, x402, ACP and MPP, plainly
Four protocols, four layers of the same problem: letting software spend money on your behalf without it becoming a disaster. Here is what each is actually for, and what is still genuinely unsettled.