Anthropic donates Model Context Protocol to Linux Foundation; OpenAI, Google, Microsoft join new Agentic AI Foundation to standardize how AI agents access apps and data across the internet.

AI companies want a new internet — and they think they’ve found the key

MCP has already taken the industry by storm, and now Anthropic is giving it away.by Dec 10, 2025, 2:33 PM UTCHayden Field is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets.Over the past 18 months, the largest AI companies in the world have quietly settled on an approach to building the next generation of apps and services — an approach that would allow AI agents from any company...