Stripe MCP Server: Letting an Agent Take Payments Safely in 2026
Stripe's official MCP server is GA. A walkthrough on letting an agent issue invoices and refunds without giving it your live key directly or violating PCI scope.
Agentic AI, LLM engineering, and the models behind modern automation — multi-agent systems, LLM evaluation and comparisons, RAG, fine-tuning, AI infrastructure, security, and production AI engineering.
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Stripe's official MCP server is GA. A walkthrough on letting an agent issue invoices and refunds without giving it your live key directly or violating PCI scope.
Zep 2.0 runs on Graphiti, a temporal knowledge graph that lets agents reason over how facts changed over time — not just what is true right now.
A practical guide to AgentKit 1.0's guardrails system — content filters, PII scrubbing, schema validation, and how to design fallback paths for production.
How to fan out WebSocket events across multiple regions with Redis pub/sub: shard-aware topology, federation, and the latency math that decides where to put the broker.
How RTP carries AI voice end-to-end, why Opus matters more than G.711 for model accuracy, and the codec negotiation patterns that ship in 2026.
L4S is finally rolling out at the network layer in 2026. Here is what it does for AI voice latency, who supports it, and the realistic timeline for production.
LiveKit Agents went 1.0 in April 2025, hit 1.5 by April 2026, and shipped native SIP plus phone numbers so you no longer need a Twilio bridge. Add MCP tool support and adaptive interruption handling and it is the default open-source telephony framework for AI in 2026.
AWS launched the AWS MCP server GA on May 2026. We unpack the awslabs/mcp suite: AgentCore, S3 access, Lambda hosting, ECS deployment, and how to ship a streamable-HTTP MCP on AWS.
VoIP-related security incidents jumped 47% since 2024 and AI deployments are the new soft target. Here is the production fraud detection stack: rate limiting, anomaly ML, IPRN intel, and SOC playbook for AI voice.