The USB-C for AI: How MCP Fixed the Internet's Plumbing Problem. 2026 MCP Intelligence Brief The Mission: One standard protocol to let any AI talk to any tool or data source. Big Tech Adoption: Apple (Xcode), Google (Drive), and Salesforce have launched official MCP servers. Key Primitives: MCP exposes three things: Tools (Actions), Resources (Data), and Prompts (Templates). The Edge: Eliminates "Glue Code." Write a connector once; use it across Claude, Cursor, and any custom agent. MCP for Beginners Everyone is talking about MCP, and almost no one is explaining it right. The common take is: "MCP is a protocol that lets AI models connect to tools." That tells you nothing useful. MCP is really about a standardization problem that was quietly breaking the AI revolution. To understand MCP, you have to understand the ungl...
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