Anthropic's Model Context Protocol: the open standard connecting AI agents to external business systems.
WordPress 7.0 Beta 2 shipped on 26 February with a new Connectors settings page for OpenAI, Claude, and Gemini. Configure once, use everywhere, says the pitch. But installing a connector doesn't give you AI features. It gives you a connection. Here's what that means for web designers, site owners, and the WordPress ecosystem.
WordPress 7.0 Beta 1 dropped today with something no other major CMS offers: a built-in MCP Adapter that lets AI agents like Claude and Cursor interact with your site directly. Real-time collaboration, per-block CSS, and an admin refresh round out the biggest WordPress update since the block editor.
Anthropic launched 11 enterprise plugins for Claude Cowork on 3 February, extending AI into legal, finance, sales, and marketing workflows. Investors wiped $285 billion off software stocks within hours. Three of the four hardest-hit companies trade on the London Stock Exchange. Here is what UK businesses need to understand.