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 to easily access information and tools across the internet in a standardized way. It's a key step toward building a usable ecosystem of AI agents that might actually pay off some of the enormous investments these companies have made, and it all starts with three letters: MCP.MCP, or Model Context Protocol, began as a passion project from two Anthropic employees, but since its creation in mid-2024, it's been widely adopted by companie …Read the full story at The Verge.