Android 16 now includes on-device MCP via @AppFunction

#1 📝 Anthropic News

Introducing Claude for Small Business - Anthropic launched Claude for Small Business on May 13, 2026, a toggle-install package that embeds Claude into tools like Intuit QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot, Canva, DocuSign, Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 and includes 15 ready-to-run agentic workflows and 15 skills to handle tasks such as payroll planning, month-end close, invoice chasing, campaign creation and lead triage. The company says the offering aims to help small businesses—which account for 44% of U.S. GDP and employ nearly half the private-sector workforce—use AI beyond chat windows while keeping users in control with approval steps and existing permission controls.

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Philipp Schmid announced that Android 16+ now includes a built-in on-device MCP, letting developers tag app functions with a new `@AppFunction` annotation so agents like Gemini can call and chain them across apps without any server or network calls.

#3 📝 OpenAI News

Building a safe, effective sandbox to enable Codex on Windows - OpenAI built a custom, unelevated sandbox for Codex on Windows after finding AppContainer too narrowly scoped, Windows Sandbox incompatible with acting on the user's real checkout (and unavailable on Home), and MIC unsafe because relabeling workspaces lowers their integrity; the prototype gives the sandbox a distinct identity via synthetic SIDs and uses write-restricted tokens to limit where Codex can modify files. The default Codex sandbox runs commands with reduced permissions—allowing reads broadly, writes only inside the workspace, and no internet access unless explicitly enabled.

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Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity is building a secure, scalable agent runtime sandbox that handles proxy API keys securely, runs safety detection on all agent-accessed content, encrypts connector data, and decouples storage from compute.

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Udi Menkes built a “second brain” in Cloud Code a month ago that now sends him daily briefs—managing his content pipeline, tracking initiatives, and suggesting actions—while he simply feeds it context, feedback, and approvals.

#6 📝 OpenAI News

Our response to the TanStack npm supply chain attack - On May 11, 2026 OpenAI detected the TanStack npm compromise (part of the Mini Shai‑Hulud supply‑chain attack) affected two employee devices and led to limited credential exfiltration from some internal source repositories, but the company found no evidence of access to customer data, production systems, intellectual property, or maliciously signed software. OpenAI engaged a third‑party forensics firm, isolated impacted systems, revoked sessions, rotated credentials and code‑signing certificates (for Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android), and requires macOS users to update ChatGPT Desktop (last signed release 1.2026.125), Codex App (26.506.31421), Codex CLI (0.130.0), and Atlas (1.2026.119.1) by June 12, 2026 when older versions will be blocked.

#7 📝 PromptLayer Blog

MCP vs API architecture patterns for AI agents and applications - This post explains the difference between MCPs and APIs as foundational protocols for AI workflows, and how each supports agent actions, data lookups, prompt evaluations, and automation. It frames both as important and often-confused options that engineering teams encounter when designing agent architectures.

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Cursor now lets you run cloud agents inside fully configured dev environments—set up just like an engineer’s laptop with cloned repos, installed dependencies, and toolchain credentials.

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Sebastian Raschka shows how implementing LLM architectures from scratch in Python and PyTorch uncovers key design and performance insights, and walks through his process for benchmarking new open-weight models against reference implementations.

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Boris Cherny: Mythos Preview is the first model to fully solve UK AISI’s cyber ranges end-to-end—including the once-unsolved “Cooling Tower”—and is being deployed to defenders as fast as responsibly possible, with more on Glasswing coming soon.

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Peter Yang shows that Claude Code and Codex can effortlessly merge, edit, and crop scanned PDFs with simple prompts. He notes it far outperforms the clunky workflows in Preview or Adobe Acrobat.

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Qwen launched Qwen3.6-Plus on the Nous Portal with free, limited-time access, powering the new Hermes Agent.

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Guillermo Rauch: Vercel’s new AI Gateway surfaces real-world production AI and agent usage—Google leads at scale, Anthropic dominates coding spend, OpenAI adoption has surged since v5.4, and OSS models keep gaining ground.

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Lenny Rachitsky warns that data science teams now spend most of their time reviewing AI‐generated analyses from PMs and engineers—50% of which are wrong—making the role far less fun.

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Greg Isenberg argues that AI agents have become the primary buyers on the internet, making MCP servers essential for any business wanting visibility.

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Sebastian Raschka highlights a low-commitment attention modification that you can run for most of training and then switch back to vanilla attention near the end, recovering performance on par with full attention.

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Santiago says Cline is one of the best agentic coding harnesses, with new benchmarks showing it outperforms Claude Code running on Opus 4.6 and 4.7.

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Santiago introduces a newly released Computer Use agent that can build and deploy apps within your own applications like a human user, offering a more stable and cost-effective alternative to finicky, expensive agents.

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bolt.new launched Design System Agents to pull your real components, tokens, and Storybook setup straight into Bolt builds—no guessed hex codes or throwaway UI. Join the live demo with @ChromaUI on May 28 at 4 pm PT.

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Philipp Schmid unveils Android AI App Functions, a new framework offering prebuilt chat, summarization, translation and image‐generation handlers that integrate with just a few lines of code and auto‐optimize between on‐device and cloud inference.

#21 📝 PromptLayer Blog

Braintrust alternatives: The best prompt management platforms in M2026 - This piece surveys alternatives to Braintrust for prompt management, focusing on operational concerns like tracing volume, evaluation cost, and speed of shipping changes. It highlights how pricing and core drivers (trace spans, processed data/storage, scores) factor into platform choice.

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Guillermo Rauch launched Vercel’s AI Gateway to showcase real-world production AI and agent usage. He highlights Google’s scale supremacy, Anthropic’s lead in coding and spend, OpenAI’s rapid growth since v5.4, and the steady rise of OSS.

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Cursor rolled out multi-repo environment support for Cloud Agents and Automations, letting you configure one environment with all required repos and reuse it across sessions (video demo included).