https://kenseme.com/blog/ What each data platform has actually shipped to give agents business context, with release stages, plus field notes from the team building Kenseme. en-us Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0600 https://kenseme.com/blog/fabcon-europe-2026-fabric-iq-copilot/ https://kenseme.com/blog/fabcon-europe-2026-fabric-iq-copilot/ Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0600 Matt O'Donnell 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. microsoft fabric fabric iq ontology data agents agents mcp standards https://kenseme.com/blog/databricks-genie-one-mcp-server-ga/ https://kenseme.com/blog/databricks-genie-one-mcp-server-ga/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0600 Brandon Gross 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. databricks genie mcp https://kenseme.com/blog/fabric-data-agents-copilot-studio-ga/ https://kenseme.com/blog/fabric-data-agents-copilot-studio-ga/ Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0600 Matt O'Donnell Microsoft made Fabric data agents generally available in Copilot Studio. A Copilot Studio agent can now add a Fabric data agent as a tool. microsoft fabric data agents copilot studio https://kenseme.com/blog/bigquery-conversational-analytics-ga/ https://kenseme.com/blog/bigquery-conversational-analytics-ga/ Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0600 Brandon Gross Google made conversational analytics in BigQuery and the Conversational Analytics API generally available, grounded in LookML, approved example queries, Knowledge Catalog and graph data. google cloud data agents https://kenseme.com/blog/mcp-spec-july-2026-stateless/ https://kenseme.com/blog/mcp-spec-july-2026-stateless/ Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0600 Matt O'Donnell 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. mcp standards https://kenseme.com/blog/apache-ossie-incubator/ https://kenseme.com/blog/apache-ossie-incubator/ Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0600 Brandon Gross The Open Semantic Interchange has been accepted into the Apache Software Foundation's incubator as Apache Ossie, with more than 50 organizations involved. standards semantics https://kenseme.com/blog/databricks-data-ai-summit-2026-genie-one/ https://kenseme.com/blog/databricks-data-ai-summit-2026-genie-one/ Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0600 Brandon Gross 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. databricks genie agents data agents semantics unity catalog mcp https://kenseme.com/blog/databricks-genie-ontology-preview/ https://kenseme.com/blog/databricks-genie-ontology-preview/ Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0600 Matt O'Donnell Databricks put Genie Ontology into public preview. It builds a graph that links metrics, business terms, tables and teams, and respects existing permissions. databricks genie ontology https://kenseme.com/blog/build-2026-fabric-iq-ga/ https://kenseme.com/blog/build-2026-fabric-iq-ga/ Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0600 Matt O'Donnell 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. microsoft fabric fabric iq ontology data agents https://kenseme.com/blog/snowflake-summit-2026-cowork/ https://kenseme.com/blog/snowflake-summit-2026-cowork/ Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0600 Brandon Gross 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. snowflake agents mcp semantic views https://kenseme.com/blog/google-next-2026-looker-mcp-knowledge-catalog/ https://kenseme.com/blog/google-next-2026-looker-mcp-knowledge-catalog/ Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0600 Matt O'Donnell 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. google cloud data agents mcp https://kenseme.com/blog/databricks-metric-views-ga-business-semantics/ https://kenseme.com/blog/databricks-metric-views-ga-business-semantics/ Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0600 Brandon Gross 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. databricks metrics genie standards https://kenseme.com/blog/oracle-ai-database-agentic-march-2026/ https://kenseme.com/blog/oracle-ai-database-agentic-march-2026/ Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0600 Matt O'Donnell 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. oracle data agents mcp https://kenseme.com/blog/fabcon-2026-fabric-data-agents-ga/ https://kenseme.com/blog/fabcon-2026-fabric-data-agents-ga/ Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0600 Brandon Gross 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. microsoft fabric data agents mcp fabric iq https://kenseme.com/blog/snowflake-semantic-view-autopilot-ga/ https://kenseme.com/blog/snowflake-semantic-view-autopilot-ga/ Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0700 Matt O'Donnell Snowflake made Semantic View Autopilot generally available. It drafts semantic views from query history, BI metadata and table structure. snowflake semantic views https://kenseme.com/blog/osi-spec-v1-published/ https://kenseme.com/blog/osi-spec-v1-published/ Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0700 Brandon Gross 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. standards semantics mcp https://kenseme.com/blog/microsoft-acquires-osmos/ https://kenseme.com/blog/microsoft-acquires-osmos/ Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0700 Matt O'Donnell Microsoft announced it is acquiring Osmos, a data engineering platform that uses agents to turn raw data into analytics-ready assets in OneLake. The team joins Fabric engineering. microsoft fabric data engineering https://kenseme.com/blog/mcp-agentic-ai-foundation-and-google-managed-mcp/ https://kenseme.com/blog/mcp-agentic-ai-foundation-and-google-managed-mcp/ Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0700 Brandon Gross 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. mcp standards google cloud https://kenseme.com/blog/mcp-spec-november-2025-tasks/ https://kenseme.com/blog/mcp-spec-november-2025-tasks/ Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0700 Matt O'Donnell 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. mcp standards https://kenseme.com/blog/databricks-genie-research-agent-beta/ https://kenseme.com/blog/databricks-genie-research-agent-beta/ Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0700 Brandon Gross Databricks released a research agent in Genie as a beta, along with beta APIs to create and update Genie spaces. databricks genie agents apis https://kenseme.com/blog/ignite-2025-fabric-iq-ontology-preview/ https://kenseme.com/blog/ignite-2025-fabric-iq-ontology-preview/ Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0700 Matt O'Donnell 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. microsoft fabric fabric iq ontology data agents https://kenseme.com/blog/looker-conversational-analytics-ga/ https://kenseme.com/blog/looker-conversational-analytics-ga/ Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0700 Brandon Gross 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. google cloud data agents https://kenseme.com/blog/snowflake-intelligence-ga/ https://kenseme.com/blog/snowflake-intelligence-ga/ Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0700 Matt O'Donnell Snowflake made Snowflake Intelligence, Cortex Agents and its managed MCP server generally available. snowflake agents mcp cortex https://kenseme.com/blog/oracle-ai-database-26ai/ https://kenseme.com/blog/oracle-ai-database-26ai/ Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0600 Brandon Gross 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. oracle data agents mcp https://kenseme.com/blog/aws-quick-suite-and-agentcore-ga/ https://kenseme.com/blog/aws-quick-suite-and-agentcore-ga/ Wed, 15 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0600 Matt O'Donnell AWS launched Amazon Quick Suite, which absorbs QuickSight, and moved Bedrock AgentCore from preview to general availability with MCP and A2A support. aws agents mcp https://kenseme.com/blog/google-gemini-enterprise-launch/ https://kenseme.com/blog/google-gemini-enterprise-launch/ Fri, 10 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0600 Brandon Gross Google launched Gemini Enterprise as a single front door for its agents at work. Agentspace is now part of it. google cloud agents https://kenseme.com/blog/snowflake-managed-mcp-server-preview/ https://kenseme.com/blog/snowflake-managed-mcp-server-preview/ Fri, 03 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0600 Matt O'Donnell Snowflake put a managed MCP server into preview, letting MCP clients call Cortex Analyst and Cortex Search with Snowflake governance. snowflake mcp cortex https://kenseme.com/blog/open-semantic-interchange-announced/ https://kenseme.com/blog/open-semantic-interchange-announced/ Thu, 25 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0600 Brandon Gross Snowflake, Salesforce, dbt Labs, RelationalAI and other companies announced the Open Semantic Interchange, an effort to create a vendor-neutral format for semantic definitions. standards semantics snowflake https://kenseme.com/blog/fabcon-vienna-2025-graph-in-fabric/ https://kenseme.com/blog/fabcon-vienna-2025-graph-in-fabric/ Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0600 Matt O'Donnell 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. microsoft fabric data agents mcp https://kenseme.com/blog/mcp-registry-preview/ https://kenseme.com/blog/mcp-registry-preview/ Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0600 Brandon Gross The MCP project launched an official registry for MCP servers in preview, with an open API so companies can run their own sub-registries. mcp standards https://kenseme.com/blog/snowflake-semantic-view-queries-ga/ https://kenseme.com/blog/snowflake-semantic-view-queries-ga/ Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0600 Matt O'Donnell Snowflake made direct SQL queries against semantic views generally available. Snowflake Intelligence entered public preview earlier in August. snowflake semantic views sql https://kenseme.com/blog/a2a-moves-to-linux-foundation/ https://kenseme.com/blog/a2a-moves-to-linux-foundation/ Wed, 25 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0600 Brandon Gross Google contributed the Agent2Agent protocol to a new Linux Foundation project, with AWS, Cisco, Microsoft, Salesforce, SAP and ServiceNow among the founding participants. standards agents https://kenseme.com/blog/mcp-spec-june-2025-structured-output/ https://kenseme.com/blog/mcp-spec-june-2025-structured-output/ Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0600 Matt O'Donnell 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. mcp standards https://kenseme.com/blog/databricks-managed-mcp-servers-beta/ https://kenseme.com/blog/databricks-managed-mcp-servers-beta/ Thu, 19 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0600 Brandon Gross Databricks released managed MCP servers in beta for Genie spaces, Vector Search indexes and Unity Catalog functions, with on-behalf-of-user authentication. databricks mcp genie unity catalog https://kenseme.com/blog/databricks-data-ai-summit-2025-genie-ga/ https://kenseme.com/blog/databricks-data-ai-summit-2025-genie-ga/ Fri, 13 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0600 Matt O'Donnell 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. databricks genie metrics agents https://kenseme.com/blog/snowflake-summit-2025-semantic-views/ https://kenseme.com/blog/snowflake-summit-2025-semantic-views/ Fri, 06 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0600 Brandon Gross 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. snowflake semantic views agents https://kenseme.com/blog/build-2025-mcp-and-fabric-data-agents/ https://kenseme.com/blog/build-2025-mcp-and-fabric-data-agents/ Wed, 21 May 2025 00:00:00 -0600 Matt O'Donnell 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. microsoft fabric mcp data agents https://kenseme.com/blog/google-next-2025-a2a-conversational-analytics/ https://kenseme.com/blog/google-next-2025-a2a-conversational-analytics/ Fri, 11 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0600 Brandon Gross 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. google cloud data agents standards https://kenseme.com/blog/fabcon-2025-fabric-data-agents/ https://kenseme.com/blog/fabcon-2025-fabric-data-agents/ Wed, 02 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0600 Matt O'Donnell 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. microsoft fabric data agents https://kenseme.com/blog/mcp-spec-march-2025-authorization/ https://kenseme.com/blog/mcp-spec-march-2025-authorization/ Fri, 28 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0600 Brandon Gross 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. mcp standards https://kenseme.com/blog/databricks-genie-conversation-api-preview/ https://kenseme.com/blog/databricks-genie-conversation-api-preview/ Thu, 13 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0600 Matt O'Donnell Databricks put the Genie Conversation API into public preview, so applications and chat tools can hold multi-turn conversations with a Genie space. databricks genie apis https://kenseme.com/blog/snowflake-cortex-agents-preview/ https://kenseme.com/blog/snowflake-cortex-agents-preview/ Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0700 Brandon Gross Snowflake put Cortex Agents into public preview. An agent plans a task, then uses Cortex Analyst for structured data and Cortex Search for documents. snowflake cortex agents