Last September, Release Notes 231 announced the Icecat MCP Server in Beta. At the time, it could do exactly one thing: return product information when an AI agent supplied a product code and a brand name. It now offers nineteen tools; it is listed in the official public MCP Registry; and, more interestingly, we finally have enough real traffic to answer the question we are asked most often: what do people actually do with it? We went through our usage statistics account by account and, over many months, spoke with the partners behind them. This article shares what we found: five…
Meta’s latest results show two very different sides of the AI boom. The company’s business continues to grow quickly. Second-quarter revenue increased 28% year over year to $60.8 billion, supported by the advertising engine behind Facebook and Instagram. At the same time, Meta’s free cash flow fell 91%, from $8.55 billion a year earlier to just $784 million. Investors focused heavily on the second number. Meta shares dropped after the results as the company raised the lower end of its 2026 capital expenditure forecast to $130 billion, while keeping the upper end at $145 billion. The reaction illustrates a shift…
