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• Some Businesses Stepped Up Their Use Of AI In 2026 By Doing This One Small Thing
  How small firms link chatbots to accounting and CRM data to answer questions.
  Gene Marks, Forbes · Oct 2026

• The lethal trifecta for AI agents
  The one combination of connections that lets attackers steal your data, and how to avoid it.
  Simon Willison, Simon Willison's Weblog · Jun 2025

• Use connectors to extend Claude's capabilities
  How to link Claude to Drive, Slack and other apps, with plan limits and warnings.
  Anthropic [vendor] · updated Nov 2026

• What is MCP (Model Context Protocol)?
  Plain-English explainer of the standard that links AI to your apps, with safety controls.
  Muratcan Koylan, Zapier blog [vendor] · updated Jun 2026

• What is the Model Context Protocol (MCP)?
  The official one-page definition: a "USB-C port" for AI apps.
  Model Context Protocol project

• Zapier MCP
  Connect ChatGPT or Claude to thousands of apps; each action uses two Zapier tasks.
  Zapier [vendor]

• Introducing Google Workspace Studio
  Google's no-code way to build agents across Gmail, Drive and tools like Mailchimp.
  Farhaz Karmali, Google [vendor] · Dec 2025

• Your Data Is Scattered. AI Agents Can Finally Connect the Pieces.
  Why connecting AI to your apps matters as much as which model you pick.
  Dharmesh Shah, simple.ai · Oct 2026

Curated by effectiveAI. Every link checked November 2026. Know a better free resource? Tell us.