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Apple Is Turning Mac Apps into MCP Servers. Now Govern Them.
Safari, Xcode and soon Pages, Keynote and Numbers ship local MCP servers that hand AI agents a browser, a build system and your documents. They run on the laptop, where no gateway sees them. Here is what each one exposes and what governing them takes.
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Ferentin Now Supports Enterprise-Managed Authorization: Agent SSO at the Front Door, Governance on Every Call
Ferentin now supports outbound Enterprise-Managed Authorization (EMA) for MCP. Your IdP approves each agent connection with an ID-JAG, and Ferentin governs every call that follows, for every agent, including ones like Cursor with no EMA support of their own.
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Stripe, OpenRouter and the Limits of Token Arbitrage
Stripe paid over $7B for OpenRouter, a business built on aggregation economics: buy tokens at channel scale, bill against list, take a percentage. That model has little to offer an enterprise running BYOK or Bedrock, Vertex and Azure AI Foundry, where provider selection is a data-governance decision.
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"The Mother of All AI Supply Chains" — Or Just the Same Old CLI Problem
OX Security's MCP vulnerability report sounds alarming, but it describes the same local process execution risk we've been warning about. The real issue is CLIs and stdio servers, not the MCP protocol.
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Introducing Ferentin: The Trust Layer for AI Agents
The founding story behind Ferentin. Why AI agents need a trust layer and how we're building zero trust policy enforcement from prompt to tool call.