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.
Databricks made the Genie One MCP server generally available, enforcing Unity Catalog permissions on every call. The beta endpoint shuts down on October 31, 2026.
The July 2026 MCP revision removes the initialize handshake and session IDs, lets clients cache tool lists, moves tasks into a new extensions framework and deprecates several older features.
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.
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.
The Open Semantic Interchange published version 1 of its specification under the Apache 2.0 license, and Databricks joined. Databricks managed MCP servers also reached public preview.
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.
The November 2025 MCP revision adds experimental support for long-running tasks, OpenID Connect discovery and finer-grained consent, and sets out formal project governance.
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.
The June 2025 MCP revision lets tools return typed, structured results, lets a server ask the user for missing input, and tightens how servers handle authorization.
Databricks released managed MCP servers in beta for Genie spaces, Vector Search indexes and Unity Catalog functions, with on-behalf-of-user authentication.
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.
The March 2025 revision of the Model Context Protocol adds an OAuth 2.1 based authorization framework, replaces the old SSE transport and lets tools declare whether they only read or can change things.
