Voice Agents Forum on Sep 16 in San Francisco, hosted by AAIF with the MLOps Community, is a one-day event for teams shipping voice systems in the wild. Expect hands-on talks on what works, what breaks, and what gets fixed after launch. Event and tickets: https://bit.ly/45uejE9

The MCP 2026-07-28 upgrade removes sessions, introduces deprecations, and is easy to adopt with the official Go SDK. Kubernetes MCP Server now supports old and new versions for a seamless transition. See the full experience from AAIF Ambassador Calum Murray: https://bit.ly/4vYisuP

A new blog from Yasutaka Mitsumoto and Yoshiyuki Tabata (AAIF Ambassador) explores why authorization is essential for MCP, how Keycloak maps to the MCP Authorization specification, and what teams should know when securing HTTP-based MCP servers with open source IAM. Read: https://bit.ly/3UbHE3J

Join the virtual MCP Community Event on Aug 6, 2026 at 8:00 AM for technical sessions covering production deployments, security, observability, governance, the latest MCP specification updates, and real-world implementation. Register now: https://bit.ly/4wFg1yD

The first Model Context Protocol Associate Beta exam opens August 4 through August 17. During the Beta period, the one-attempt exam is available for $99 (regularly $250). All exams must be scheduled by August 16. Register: https://bit.ly/4w9st8K

Demetrios Brinkmann explores how iFood designed Rosie, a multi-agent support system built around latency with async-first architecture, rollback strategies, memory consolidation, and output revision. Read the full breakdown of the production patterns behind Rosie: https://bit.ly/4wunO27

As AI agents take on more code, the engineering challenge shifts to designing the agents themselves. In this clip, Angie Jones explains why skills like system design, separation of concerns, and modular architecture matter just as much, if not more, in the agentic era: https://bit.ly/4wZanH8

A must-read from Angie Jones on what the EU AI Act means for teams building AI agents. The blog explains why compliance extends beyond foundation models and how agent systems are classified based on their intended use. Read more: https://bit.ly/3TA5Xs3

At AI Native Shanghai, practitioners from Ant Group, Alibaba, ZTE, Huawei, AAIF, and CNCF shared three observations shaping the next generation of agent systems: engineering patterns are still emerging, harness design matters as much as model selection. Read the recap: https://bit.ly/4c26YPR

Josh Collier runs FinOps at Superhuman (formerly Grammarly), and he makes the case that production LLM costs are heading up, not down - a GPT-5 release at double 5.1, plus a roughly 10% data residency charge on US models that's easy to overlook.

Most APIs are rigid by design. MCP’s power is how it adapts as your system shifts, letting you describe change as it happens. You don't have to wait months. Less friction. More flexibility. Watch the full clip: https://bit.ly/4pOSOay

Slotly used to break when you scaled out—sessions pinned clients to one instance. Now, with stateless MCP, those problems are gone. For migration checklists and concrete examples, read member company Scalekit’s technical guide: https://bit.ly/4h1yAbe

Getting MCP working in a demo is easy. Getting it production-ready is different. Steve Kearns covers what actually changes: state ownership, handle security, tool scoping, and observability. https://bit.ly/4hCdArO

Stateless MCP changes the production model for MCP servers. The 2026-07-28 spec enables horizontal scaling without sticky sessions, adds routing headers, multi round-trip requests, authorization hardening, and MCP Apps. Deep dive from AAIF Ambassador Michael Levan: https://bit.ly/4vZLE4P

You wrote a program. Now you want an AI agent to call it. That's MCP. Works fine on your laptop, breaks the moment you run two copies. Here's the failure and the July 28 fix, with code: dev.to/yosolita1978... Thanks @aaif.io for the spot to talk about this

What Breaks When One MCP Server Becomes Two

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MCP Dev Summit Bengaluru was more about what actually broke and was rebuilt than what looked good on slides. 56 hands-on lessons on agent skills, infra, UX, and security. - Full recap: https://bit.ly/4fPFbn3 - Upcoming events: https://bit.ly/4wk0Dqx

"The AAIF is the neutral home for MCP." Angie Jones explains why open governance gives organizations greater confidence to build on MCP. With stewardship through the AAIF, members across the ecosystem have a voice in shaping the protocol's future. Watch: https://bit.ly/4wZanH8

MCP Community Event is on August 6. Hear from speakers Demetrios Brinkmann, Rahul Parundekar, and Leo Walker on MCP servers, agentic workflows, tooling, security, and more: https://bit.ly/45rClzw

MCP Resources already contain more than content. They include metadata like superseded versions, dependencies, timestamps, and authorship that agents can use to understand context. Kesigan Anbalagan from Comcast shows how graph-based agents outperform traditional RAG: https://bit.ly/4frkDAN

AAIF Ambassador Vikram Vaswani explores one of the biggest architectural changes in the MCP 07-28 specification. The deep dive walks through migrating an MCP server to the new model and how stateless MCP enables simpler scaling across cloud-native infrastructure: https://bit.ly/4pHtQd2

David Soria Parra, co-creator of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), shares how SDK maturity provides new leverage for developers while requiring thoughtful decisions around evolution, adoption, and technical tradeoffs. Watch → https://bit.ly/4wxNniY

Need to catch up on what all the hype is about? The 2026-07-28 MCP spec introduces a stateless core, so servers can scale without managing sessions. It also adds cacheable results, stronger auth, header-based routing, and updated Tier 1 SDKs. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4biWQC9

MCP 7-28 Release Party time. 🎉 SF, NY, and London are at capacity, but waitlists are open. Seattle, Austin, and Amsterdam still have spots available. Can’t make it in person? Join the Seattle livestream: https://bit.ly/4bkBYu5 See all registration details here: https://bit.ly/4fr3kkJ

Bloomberg (member company) shares lessons from deploying MCP internally to power ASKB, highlighting why semantic context, production-grade data, governance, and thoughtful tool design are essential for reliable AI in financial services. Read on: https://bit.ly/4wojYrb

The latest MCP 7-28 release completes MCP’s transition to a stateless architecture, enabling MCP servers to run behind standard load balancers with existing cloud-native infrastructure. Read MCP Core Maintainer Caitie McCaffrey’s overview: https://bit.ly/3TtK0e4

MCP’s biggest architectural shift is here. The move to a stateless design helps MCP-based applications scale more naturally in cloud environments while introducing updates across authorization, transport, caching, and SDK support. Read CIO’s coverage on MCP’s next chapter: https://bit.ly/4fCr6Ju

MCP 07-28 is the protocol's biggest update since launch. The release introduces a fully stateless architecture for cloud-native deployments, strengthens authorization with enterprise-managed authentication, and more. Read Michael Nuñez's exclusive coverage in VentureBeat: https://bit.ly/4x1Q7Vj

MCP is now stateless. What does that mean? The latest MCP 7-28 update moves away from session-based connections to a fully stateless protocol, making MCP easier to scale across large deployments and production environments. Watch the full clip here with David Soria Parra: https://bit.ly/3TYRaaj

TOMORROW! Amsterdam is hosting a MCP 7-28 release party at AI House. We'll hear from Peder and Sam as we mark this release together with the developers and organizations building on the Model Context Protocol across Europe. RSVP → https://bit.ly/458k3mL

MCP 7-28 introduces stateless architecture, request-level identity, schema validation, and a path to centralized governance. Craig McLuckie (CEO at Stacklok) explains what platform teams need to know as MCP moves from developer adoption to production infrastructure: https://bit.ly/4xa18Eo