As Faultline analyzed last week, AI agent taxonomies are expanding so rapidly that technology vendors are beginning to lose sight of tangible use cases for autonomy in media workflows. Ahead of IBC 2026, cloud playout vendor Veset is another among those peddling the autonomy narrative with the launch of its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server which connects the customers of the company’s playout platform, Nimbus, to Anthropic’s AI assistant Claude. We heard MCP on everyone’s lips in the run up to IBC 2025, so why has it taken a year for Veset to join the MCP party? Veset says that the constant stream of information that broadcast operations generate—from channel status, playout, health, schedules, media assets, ingest logs, and audit trails—requires a certain degree of automation so that broadcasters…