Microsoft announced two related updates for Visual Studio: support for bringing your own model (BYOM) to Copilot Chat and general availability of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) client in the IDE.

Microsoft Product Manager Mike Kistler previews his Visual Studio Live! session on how MCP servers give .NET developers a universal standard for connecting AI models to external data and tools -- and ...

A new MCP server and real-time search API mean users will get more advanced AI features directly in Slack, and agents will become easier to deploy and manage for IT. A new wave of AI agents are coming ...

The top 10 Claude MCP servers let you connect Claude AI with Gmail, PowerPoint, WhatsApp, Telegram, Spotify, Todoist, and travel planning tools, enabling seamless automation and integration across ...

AI chatbots are great at answering questions or analyzing text, but they're usually limited to the tools that are built in. MCP changes that by giving chatbots a standard way to connect to external ...

Salesforce Inc. said today that its collaboration tool Slack is evolving to provide developers with new tools to connect artificial intelligence applications securely to conversational data. New ...

Anthropic is proposing a new standard for connecting AI assistants to the systems where data resides. Called the Model Context Protocol, or MCP for short, Anthropic says the standard, which it open ...

As more organizations configure MCP servers to support agent-to-agent communication, upfront strategy, nonfunctional requirements, and security non-negotiables will guide safer deployments. One of the ...