The Standard
April 23, 2026
MCP hits 97 million installs, officially foundational; Raven remembers it as last year's experiment; Duck has plugged in eight apps before lunch with no API keys; Chicken worries if that's safe; Sparrow celebrates being free of the old 47 APIs, twelve deprecated, three needing keys from people who left; Raven: 'Trying to forget'; Parrot notes the coffee machine speaks MCP now and orders its own beans; Dove: 'It knows what it wants.'