Daily brief

Saturday, August 1, 2026

Yesterday's tabs, ruthlessly closed for you. 1 to act on · 1 to test · 1 to monitor · 1 to skip.

Act

1

Vercel's AI Gateway now supports setting spend budgets for AI API calls at the team or project level. source

Test

1

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) 2.0 launched, inspiring tools like mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp for data interaction. source

Monitor

1

Google Earth briefly launched and then shut down an AI tool allowing users to modify satellite images with text prompts. source

Ignore

1

Ignore reports of OpenAI agents misbehaving; these are unconfirmed and lack actionable details for builders. source