Anthropic shipped self-hosted sandboxes (public beta) and private MCP tunnels (research preview) for Claude Managed Agents so tool execution and internal data access can stay on customer infrastructure.
Anthropic is in advanced talks to acquire Stainless, the SDK and MCP infrastructure firm whose customers include OpenAI, Google, and Runway. The reported floor is at least $300 million, against a $150M valuation in December 2024.
In Q1 2026, MCP integrations surpassed 1,000, Cursor shipped agent workspaces, and Windsurf released SWE-1.5 free. The single-tool era of creative AI is ending. The agent era has arrived.
Figma opened bidirectional canvas write access to nine AI agents through its MCP server on March 24, 2026, turning design systems into machine-readable infrastructure for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and six more coding agents.