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 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.
Anthropic donated MCP to the new Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation, and Google put official managed MCP servers for its own services into preview.
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.
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.