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Meta exposes WhatsApp Business setup to coding agents through a new MCP serverThe new MCP server connects agents such as Claude, Cursor, Codex and ChatGPT to WhatsApp Business setup and management workflows. Agents can create business accounts, verify phone numbers, register Cloud API access, create templates, test messages and webhooks, and check configuration failures.→NVIDIA agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billionNVIDIA said it agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000. It said Hugging Face will remain an open platform supporting open models, multiple clouds, accelerators and developer tooling.→GitHub Copilot SDK makes empty-mode skills deny-by-defaultCopilot SDK v1.0.13-preview.1 makes ClientMode.Empty apply deny-by-default isolation to built-in skills across all six SDKs. Hosts can re-enable selected skills through includedBuiltinSkills, while sessions created in Empty mode otherwise start without runtime-bundled skills.→Apple resets EU app economics for web and alternative-store distributionThe revised terms introduce a flat 5% commission on digital goods sold through apps distributed outside the App Store or through the web. Apple also set standard rates of 26% for in-app purchases and 20% for alternative payments, while loosening financial qualification rules for alternative marketplaces.→Xpander raises $7.5 million to govern and operate AI agentsXpander’s platform includes a vendor-neutral agent harness that executes agents as portable workloads and renders their interfaces. Its governance layer covers products, workflows and data, while an agentic forward-deployed engineer named Omni is intended to accelerate adoption.→