Microsoft has unveiled a public‑preview of its collaborative agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot, bringing a suite of "always‑on" agents grounded in context for channels, meetings, SharePoint sites, Viva Engage communities, and Planner workloads.
Google has announced the public release of its Data Commons Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server, a tool designed to make the company's extensive collection of public datasets more accessible to AI developers and data scientists.
Through a new partnership with Google for Education, Rice University is expanding access to generative AI tools for all faculty, staff and students.
The Linux Foundation has announced it will host the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol project, an open standard originally developed by Google to support secure communication and interoperability among AI agents.