model context protocol

One Inc’s announcement that it is adopting the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to accelerate integrations and provide secure AI-driven access to payments data represents a significant moment where insurance-focused payments technology and the rapidly standardizing agent-tool ecosystem intersect...

CData’s announcement that its Connect AI managed Model Context Protocol (MCP) platform is now available inside Microsoft Copilot Studio and listed as a launch partner in tthe Databricks Marketplace marks a decisive moment in the maturing MCP ecosystem—one that promises faster agent development...

Microsoft's decision to move Model Context Protocol (MCP) support for Azure Functions to general availability marks a pivotal moment for enterprise agent architectures: Azure now provides a first‑class, identity‑aware, serverless path for hosting MCP servers with built‑in authentication, a...

LSEG’s move to surface licensed market data inside Microsoft Copilot Studio marks a clear inflection point: the heavy lifting of engineering integrations and bespoke data pipelines is being replaced by low-code agent orchestration that lets domain experts create working AI assistants in minutes...

Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) has announced a strategic collaboration with Microsoft to build a cloud‑native, AI‑enabled unified data platform intended to accelerate transmission planning, improve real‑time situational awareness, and help the Midwest grid absorb surging...

Anthropic’s decision to donate the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to a new Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation marks a decisive step toward industry-standard plumbing for “agentic” AI — the class of systems that act autonomously by connecting models to tools, data stores and services...

The Linux Foundation’s creation of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) marks a decisive moment in the maturation of “agentic AI” — a coordinated, tool-enabled class of autonomous systems — by placing three rapidly adopted open projects from Anthropic, Block and OpenAI under a single neutral...

Microsoft’s quiet nudge to developers—“build agents that connect, automate, and act with confidence”—is both a call to arms and an admission: Copilot as a single assistant is not sufficient to realize Microsoft’s vision of an agentic Windows 11, and the company is reshaping the OS to host...

Microsoft’s preview of a Windows 11 framework for third‑party AI agents marks a decisive step toward what Microsoft calls an “agentic OS” — an operating system that doesn’t just host apps and files, but hosts persistent, auditable AI assistants that can act on users’ behalf. The company is...

Google’s announcement that it will offer fully managed remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers as a “unified layer” across Google and Google Cloud services marks a decisive shift from model-centric product experiments to infrastructure that treats agents as first-class, discoverable, and...

This year’s sweeping push from Microsoft transforms Copilot from a helpful drafting assistant into the backbone of what vendors and CIOs are now calling the agentic enterprise — fleets of identity-bound AI agents that plan, act, and are managed like software services. Cloud Wars’ roundup of the...

Microsoft’s latest Insider preview, build 26220.7523 (KB5072043), pushes Windows 11 further down the path to an “agentic” desktop by placing Ask Copilot on the taskbar for commercial users, adding system‑level Agent Launchers that let apps register AI agents, and giving Narrator a rare and...

Microsoft’s December Insider previews quietly rearranged Windows 11 around a simple, urgent idea: turn the operating system into a safe, discoverable host for AI agents while smoothing the UI and controls that surround them — and in doing so, shipped more agentic infrastructure than most users...

Microsoft’s latest move to make Windows 11 an “agentic” operating system — where AI agents can act on behalf of users, open apps, and manipulate files — has triggered a fierce debate about privacy, consent, and a changed security model for the desktop. Background / Overview Microsoft has begun...

Microsoft’s blunt claim that Windows is “evolving into an agentic OS” is more than marketing puffery — it describes a deliberate platform redesign that elevates AI from an add‑on assistant to a first‑class system component that can reason, plan, and act across apps, files, and services on your...

OpenAI, Anthropic and Block have placed three working pieces of agent infrastructure — AGENTS.md, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and the goose agent framework — into a Linux Foundation‑hosted directed fund named the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), a move intended to create vendor‑neutral...

The Linux Foundation, joined by industry heavyweights including Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic and Block, today announced the formation of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) — a vendor-neutral steward intended to accelerate open standards, interoperability and governance for agentic AI, and to house...

Plansom’s new Teams-native agent folds goal-setting, delegation, and real-time progress tracking directly into Microsoft Teams by building on Microsoft’s Foundry SDKs, Azure OpenAI, Copilot Studio, and Model Context Protocol — a move designed to make delegation measurable, visible, and automated...

OpenAI, Anthropic and Block have deposited three working pieces of agent plumbing into a new Linux Foundation-backed body — the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) — in a bid to impose neutral governance, reduce fragmentation and make the next generation of AI agents safer and more portable across...

The Linux Foundation’s new Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) has pulled an unusually broad coalition of rivals into a single, vendor‑neutral effort to standardize the plumbing that will let AI agents discover tools, call services, and cooperate across clouds and devices — with Anthropic’s Model...