model context protocol

  1. Workday–Microsoft AI Agents: Identity-Driven Enterprise Governance

    Workday’s announcement at Workday Rising of a joint technical alignment with Microsoft marks a decisive step in making AI agents first-class, governable entities inside the enterprise — not just ephemeral bots stitched together by line-of-business teams. The new integration links Microsoft’s...
  2. Workday and Microsoft Launch Agent System of Record for AI Agents

    Workday and Microsoft have quietly stepped into the next phase of enterprise automation: they’re building the plumbing to let agentic AI workers — digital agents created in Microsoft’s developer ecosystem — obtain verified identities, join a corporate directory, and be managed alongside human...
  3. IRIS Foundry in Teams & Copilot: Industrial AI in the Flow of Work

    SymphonyAI’s IRIS Foundry is now available inside Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot, bringing conversational, actionable industrial intelligence directly into the collaboration surface used by frontline operators and engineers — a move that promises to reduce context switching...
  4. Microsoft 365 Copilot Expands Role-Based AI for Sales, Service, Finance

    Microsoft’s latest Copilot wave tightens two threads that have run through its product roadmap all year: push AI into everyday work for specific job roles, and make it easier for developers and IT teams to build, test, govern, and connect those assistants to the systems that power enterprise...
  5. IRIS Foundry in Teams & Copilot: Real-Time Industrial AI via MCP

    SymphonyAI’s industrial AI platform, IRIS Foundry, is now directly available inside Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot via the Model Context Protocol (MCP)—bringing real‑time operational visibility, contextualized plant data, and automated workflows into the exact collaboration surface...
  6. IRIS Foundry in Teams & Copilot via MCP: Real-Time Industrial AI for Frontline

    SymphonyAI’s IRIS Foundry is now embedded directly into Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot via the Model Context Protocol (MCP), bringing real‑time industrial intelligence, automated workflows, and role‑based copilots into the flow of frontline work—and changing how manufacturing and...
  7. IRIS Foundry in Teams and Copilot via MCP: Industrial AI in the Flow of Work

    SymphonyAI’s IRIS Foundry now appears directly inside Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot, promising to move industrial AI from dashboards and backrooms into the daily workflows of plant operators and frontline teams—using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to connect OT data, AI reasoning...
  8. Agentic AI in Tax & Accounting: Accordance AI Brain and Sourcetable Connectors

    Accordance’s public launch this week signals a new phase in AI for tax and accounting: the startup bills itself as an “AI brain” that bundles specialized regulatory knowledge, a multi‑agent reasoning system, and integrations designed for professional workflows — all backed by a recent $13...
  9. Could a Copilot-First, Agentic Windows Phone Redefine Mobile?

    Microsoft’s renewed push to make Windows a deeply agentic, multimodal platform—paired with ambitious Copilot investments—has quietly rewritten the conditions that once made a Microsoft-branded phone an improbable gamble; taken together, those shifts make the idea of a “new Windows phone” not...
  10. Visual Studio 2026 Insiders: AI-Driven IDE with BYOM, MCP, and Agent Workflows

    Microsoft has pushed a first public look at Visual Studio 2026 — billed internally as Visual Studio 18 and distributed through a new "Insiders" channel — and the headline is simple: Microsoft has folded much deeper AI into the IDE while polishing the look, settings, and model control surface...
  11. Visual Studio 2026 Insiders: AI-First IDE with .NET 10 and C# 14

    The first public glimpse of Visual Studio 2026 arrived in the Insiders Channel this week, and what Microsoft is shipping in this early build is a clear signal: the IDE is entering a new phase where AI is embedded across the developer workflow while the platform pushes forward with performance...
  12. AI-Driven Visual Studio Copilot: MCP, BYOM, and the Insiders Channel

    Microsoft’s latest push to make AI the fabric of the developer experience landed with bold claims and a mixed reception: a new Insiders Channel debut, a purported Visual Studio 2026/18.0 milestone that folds GitHub Copilot into the IDE in deeper, agentic ways, and a feature set tuned for speed...
  13. Microsoft Expands Copilot with Claude Sonnet 4: A Multi-Model AI Strategy

    Microsoft’s reported decision to integrate Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 into Microsoft 365 marks a deliberate and consequential step away from a single‑provider AI strategy and toward a multi‑model, standards‑based future for enterprise productivity tools. This move — first reported today by...
  14. NLWeb + AutoRAG: Grounded AI Search with Publisher Control

    Microsoft and Cloudflare’s push to make websites “AI‑search friendly” is more than a product announcement — it’s an attempt to rewire how content is discovered, attributed, and monetized on the web by combining Microsoft’s NLWeb protocol with Cloudflare’s managed AutoRAG pipeline. The idea is...
  15. Azure AI Foundry: From Prototype to Enterprise-Ready AI Agents

    Azure’s argument is stark but simple: it’s no longer a question of whether teams can build AI agents—the real battle is how quickly and reliably they can move from prototype to enterprise-ready deployment. Background The pace of agent development has accelerated from lab experiments to...
  16. Claude-Notion Integration: AI-Driven Task Prioritization & Scheduling

    I hooked Claude into my Notion workspace and, within a few minutes, the chaos of dozens of interdependent tasks—scattered deadlines, vague titles, and hidden prerequisites—began to feel manageable in a way no purely human triage had delivered. What started as an experiment with an AI assistant...
  17. KylinOS 11: China's Linux 6.6 with AI and compute-sharing

    China’s KylinSoft has delivered a major new release that pushes its domestic Linux distribution closer to the mainstream kernel line while doubling down on AI and “算力共享” (compute-sharing) features — a technically bold release with strategic as well as practical implications for China’s software...
  18. Securing Autonomous AI Agents: Identity-First Governance with Entra Agent ID and MCP

    Microsoft’s deputy CISO for Identity lays out a clear warning: autonomous agents are moving from experiments to production, and without new identity, access, data, and runtime controls they will create risks that are fundamentally different from those posed by traditional users and service...
  19. GitHub Copilot for Azure in Visual Studio 2022 — AI Cloud Agent in IDE

    GitHub Copilot for Azure has landed inside Visual Studio 2022 as a public preview, bringing a curated set of Azure management tools directly into Copilot Chat — Agent Mode and enabling developers to inspect resources, pull logs, run Azure CLI/azd commands, and even deploy applications from...
  20. GitHub Copilot for Azure in Visual Studio 2022: Zero-Setup MCP Agent Mode

    Microsoft has quietly extended Copilot’s reach deeper into the Azure developer workflow by launching a public preview of the GitHub Copilot for Azure extension for Visual Studio 2022, bringing a curated set of Azure tools—exposed via an Azure Model Context Protocol (MCP) server—directly into...