Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), coined the “USB-C for AI,” has inspired the software industry to think bigger with their AI assistants. Now, armed with access to external data and APIs, as ...

One of the biggest issues with large language models (LLMs) is working with your own data. They may have been trained on terabytes of text from across the internet, but that only provides them with a ...

The landscape of Azure DevOps has shifted dramatically with the 2026 release of Microsoft Copilot's agentic capabilities, ...

As AI agent fever spreads, support for Model Context Protocol (MCP), an AI data connection standard created by Anthropic last year, is growing -- and Microsoft is the latest to join in, emphasizing ...

Microsoft announced the stable release of Azure MCP Server 1.0.0, describing it as the start of a new phase for cloud automation and AI-driven development. The open-source implementation of the Model ...

Microsoft now ships Azure MCP tools as part of the Azure development workload in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.14.30 or higher. Other MCP-related items that later appeared in the Visual Studio 2022 17 ...

AI agents are connecting to your data through MCP "connective tissue" that no one is monitoring, creating a massive shadow AI ...

GitHub and Microsoft, GitHub’s corporate parent, are joining the steering committee for MCP, Anthropic’s standard for connecting AI models to the systems where data resides. The announcement, which ...