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.
Google made conversational analytics in BigQuery and the Conversational Analytics API generally available, grounded in LookML, approved example queries, Knowledge Catalog and graph data.
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 Build 2026, Microsoft made Fabric IQ, Graph in Fabric and operations agents generally available. The ontology item stays in preview, with general availability expected in the coming months.
At Next 26, Google put a managed Looker MCP server and Knowledge Catalog integration into preview, announced BigQuery Graph and measures, and previewed an agent that drafts LookML.
Oracle announced a Private Agent Factory with prebuilt agents, per-user data security for agents, answer matching against existing reports and a new Autonomous AI Database MCP server.
At FabCon and SQLCon 2026, Microsoft made Fabric data agents generally available, released the local Fabric MCP server as GA, put a remote MCP server into preview and made Fabric IQ ontologies reachable over MCP in preview.
At Ignite 2025, Microsoft put Fabric IQ into public preview, including an ontology item that maps data to business entities, relationships and rules. Data agents can now be exposed as hosted MCP servers.
Google made conversational analytics in Looker generally available, grounded in the LookML model, with multi-Explore questions and an explanation of how each answer was calculated.
Oracle released AI Database 26ai as its long-term support release, with MCP server support, an in-database agent framework and annotations that describe what data means.
At FabCon Vienna, Microsoft put a native graph store with GQL queries into public preview, released a developer Fabric MCP and extended data agents to all mirrored databases.
At Build 2025, Microsoft announced first-party MCP support across its developer and business products and said Fabric data agents would come to Copilot Studio in the coming weeks.
At Next 25, Google announced the Agent2Agent protocol as a draft open standard and put conversational analytics for Looker and a new API into preview, both grounded in the Looker semantic model.
At FabCon 2025, Microsoft renamed Fabric AI skills to Fabric data agents and put a Fabric knowledge tool for Azure AI Agent Service into public preview, with answers limited to data each user can already access.
