MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open standard for connecting AI models and apps to external tools, data, and prompts by having servers advertise capabilities while the app mediates calls from the model to those servers. It uses a JSON-RPC envelope (over stdin/stdout or a single HTTP endpoint), defines methods, capability negotiation, transports and auth, and deliberately leaves harness/implementation details out of the spec.

Pangram announced Pangram Image 1.0 and Pangram Image Flash 1.0: state-of-the-art AI image and video detectors that provide heatmap localization, robustness to edits/compression and low-resolution inputs, plus a Chrome extension and API. They report strong benchmark results (e.g., 99.96% on a synthetic image set and 98.7% on DF26 video), and support frame-by-frame native video analysis.