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.
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.
The Open Semantic Interchange has been accepted into the Apache Software Foundation's incubator as Apache Ossie, with more than 50 organizations involved.
Databricks made Unity Catalog metric views generally available as part of Unity Catalog Business Semantics, contributed metric views to Apache Spark, backed the Open Semantic Interchange and made the Genie Conversation API generally available.
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.
Snowflake, Salesforce, dbt Labs, RelationalAI and other companies announced the Open Semantic Interchange, an effort to create a vendor-neutral format for semantic definitions.
Google contributed the Agent2Agent protocol to a new Linux Foundation project, with AWS, Cisco, Microsoft, Salesforce, SAP and ServiceNow among the founding participants.
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.
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.
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.
