Every major data platform now ships a layer that tells agents what the business means. At FabCon and SQLCon Europe 2026 Microsoft took the biggest step yet, putting Fabric IQ into Microsoft 365 Copilot, extending the ontology, bringing app building to Power BI Pro and adding policy, audit and observability for agents, alongside OneLake, Real-Time Intelligence and SQL updates. Here is everything announced, with release stages, and where the rest of the industry stands.
At Data + AI Summit 2026 Databricks made Genie One, Genie Agents and Genie Code generally available, added domains and a business glossary to Unity Catalog, extended Agent Bricks and put guardrails, spend controls and tracing for agents into Unity AI Gateway. Here is everything announced, with release stages.
At Summit 2026, Snowflake renamed Snowflake Intelligence to CoWork, made MCP connectors generally available, opened Semantic Studio in private preview and exposed semantic views over MCP.
Google contributed the Agent2Agent protocol to a new Linux Foundation project, with AWS, Cisco, Microsoft, Salesforce, SAP and ServiceNow among the founding participants.
Around Data + AI Summit 2025, Databricks made AI/BI Genie generally available, put Unity Catalog metric views into public preview and launched Agent Bricks in beta.
At Summit 2025, Snowflake made defining semantic views generally available and announced Snowflake Intelligence, a place for business users to ask questions of their data through agents.
