Model Context Protocol (MCP) stories
Enterprises face rising costs and governance gaps as thousands of AI agents begin operating alongside staff across multiple systems.
The ranking bolsters Looker as Google pushes AI-driven analytics, with buyers weighing governance and trusted data more heavily than dashboards.
Customers can now query Euromonitor's Passport data in Microsoft apps and other AI tools as the firm widens API access across all datasets.
Developers can now add authentication and access controls earlier in AI-built apps, as Ory's free plugins plug identity tools into coding agents.
The release aims to ease a key hurdle for firms moving AI agents into production by unifying memory, retrieval and access across environments.
Customers can now query and act on API security data in plain English, but every change still needs human approval before it is applied.
Legacy desktop software can now be automated without new APIs, as Amazon Web Services opens WorkSpaces applications to AI agents under existing controls.
The beta aims to stop unauthorised AI tools on corporate devices from reaching cloud services, repositories and production systems.
External coding tools can now reach Google Cloud models and notebooks via an open protocol, while IAM Deny policies keep access tightly governed.
Businesses are under growing pressure to track hidden software, AI tools and access rights as Corma secures a second Gartner ranking.
The update gives cloud teams finer-grained ways to stop autonomous AI agents moving data outside approved perimeters on Google Cloud.
Security teams can now query Silent Push data through Claude and ChatGPT after the platform added AI access, bulk enrichment and reorganised modules.
Manufacturers could soon query live product data from AI tools, as Propel links its PLM platform to Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot.
The update aims to give large organisations tighter control over AI workloads spread across clouds, servers and containers, with policy checks built in.
Enterprises can now trace hidden AI components in code to meet growing audit and compliance demands as production use outpaces governance.
Enterprise users can now query workforce data alongside sales and finance systems, as the connector is read-only and uses existing permissions.
Merchants could cut fraud, dispute and integration delays as Forter opens early access to tools that work inside ChatGPT and Claude.
Rising AI data volumes are forcing observability vendors to rethink pricing and storage as Tsuga wins fresh backing to keep telemetry in-house.
Automated traffic now makes up more than half of web requests, pushing enterprises to adopt defences that work across AI agents and APIs.
Production users can now route generative AI requests through a stable open source gateway, with Bloomberg already running it and Nutanix adopting it.