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  • Azure SQL becomes a first-class knowledge source in Foundry IQ

    Microsoft has expanded Foundry IQ’s capabilities by integrating Azure SQL Database as a knowledge source, now in public preview. Enterprise developers building Copilot, RAG, and agentic experiences can expose authoritative SQL tables and views directly as grounding data for AI models. This solves a real pain point. Before this, getting structured relational data into an…

  • MCP Toolkit for Azure Cosmos DB hits GA, standardizing agent-to-database access

    Microsoft has shipped the MCP Toolkit for Azure Cosmos DB to general availability, giving developers a standardized way to expose Cosmos DB operations through the Model Context Protocol. If you have been wiring up custom API endpoints every time an AI agent needs to read or write database records, this one is for you. The…

  • GPT-5.6 lands on Azure Databricks with Foundry integration

    OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 is now generally available on Azure Databricks, giving developers a direct path to run the latest frontier model inside the Databricks environment without stitching together separate infrastructure. You purchase access through Microsoft Foundry, then deploy via the Databricks Model Serving Endpoint. The integration means your data pipelines, feature engineering, and inference all live…

  • Claude Sonnet 5 Hits Azure Databricks

    Enterprise Intelligence Meets Databricks Speed Azure Databricks has officially expanded its AI Model Serving capabilities by making Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 generally available. This integration allows organizations to deploy one of Anthropic’s most capable models directly within their Databricks environment, bypassing the need for complex external API orchestration while maintaining enterprise-grade security. The Agentic Advantage…

  • MCP Toolkit for Azure Cosmos DB Reaches General Availability

    Microsoft has shipped the MCP Toolkit for Azure Cosmos DB as generally available (v1.1.2), turning your operational database into an AI-agent-accessible endpoint through the Model Context Protocol. [source] The toolkit acts as an MCP server that sits between your AI agents and Cosmos DB, handling authentication, query translation, and vector search without custom SDK wrappers.…

  • Copilot Agent Mode Lands in SSMS Preview

    Copilot Agent Mode Lands in SSMS Preview Microsoft has placed an Agent mode for GitHub Copilot inside SQL Server Management Studio, letting the AI work on database tasks autonomously. What this means: The preview shows Copilot moving beyond simple query suggestions to handling multi-step database workflows, executing queries, tuning performance and enforcing security under user…

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