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Microsoft Goes All in on Anthropic's MCP Standard for Safer AI Agent Deployments
- On May 19, 2025, at the Microsoft Build conference, Microsoft and GitHub revealed their participation as members of the steering committee overseeing Anthropic’s MCP standard.
- The announcement follows growing industry support as MCP, introduced by Anthropic in November 2024, aims to connect AI models securely with external data sources like business tools and repositories.
- Microsoft and GitHub pledged broad first-party support across platforms like Azure and Windows 11, including new features such as a Windows registry service to manage MCP server entries securely.
- Microsoft highlighted enhanced security measures through a revised authorization specification that permits trusted sign-in and controlled access. Additionally, Windows 11 will facilitate developers in creating advanced applications leveraging generative AI and autonomous agent frameworks.
- The adoption of MCP by Microsoft signals increased acceptance of open standards and shared infrastructure, potentially enabling multi-agent AI collaboration with improved memory and security in enterprise and consumer settings.
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GitHub, Microsoft join Anthropic's MCP steering committee
SAN FRANCISCO, May 19 (Xinhua) -- Microsoft and GitHub announced they are joining the steering committee for MCP, the open standard developed by Anthropic to enable artificial intelligence (AI) models to connect with external data systems, at the Microsoft Build 2025 conference on Monday. Read full story
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Microsoft is advancing its passwordless authentication initiatives, building on years of development through its Entra ID platform. While the company has not issued an official mandate requiring commercial tenants to switch to passwordless authentication by May 2025, it is actively promoting stronger security measures across its platforms as part of a broader strategy to protect over 1 billion users. The technology giant is implementing mandator…
Chain-of-Thought May Not Be a Window into AI's Reasoning: Anthropic’s New Study Reveals Hidden Gaps
Chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting has become a popular method for improving and interpreting the reasoning processes of large language models (LLMs). The idea is simple: if a model explains its answer step-by-step, then those steps should give us some insight into how it reached its conclusion. This is especially appealing in safety-critical domains, where understanding how a model reasons—or misreasons—can help prevent unintended behavior. But a…
GitHub and Microsoft adopt Anthropic MCP for AI data links
Windows and cloud platforms will soon let AI models pull data from apps and services more easily and safely. GitHub and Microsoft have joined the steering committee for the Model Context Protocol. This open standard was made by Anthropic so that AI tools can talk to data systems directly. Major AI firms like OpenAI and Google have already backed MCP. GitHub and Microsoft will add first-party support across Azure and Windows to help developers ex…
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