Mcp

Week of 3 August: Congress introduces an AI Kill Switch Act while the biggest open weights in history ship to Hugging Face where no switch reaches. Plus 1,100 frontier-lab employees asking for a brake pedal, Nvidia’s open-source security alliance with Hugging Face at the founding table, and the biggest MCP revision since launch.

Turn a local model into an agent that actually does things, the harness pattern (loop, tools, memory, schedule), your first scheduled job, and the gates that make unattended AI shippable.