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Race heats up for AI agent platform that knows the company best

Competition among enterprise technology companies is intensifying to secure the title of the AI agent that corporate users use first at work. Companies spanning data infrastructure software and business applications are entering a race to build AI agent platforms that can safely and effectively use data across internal systems, including third-party systems. As technologies such as the Model Context Protocol evolve, firms are repositioning strategies, partnering while also competing, and accelerating investment across data and application layers.

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Microsoft unveils \'Web IQ\' search engine for AI agents

Microsoft unveiled \'Web IQ\', a search engine designed specifically for AI agents, at its Build 2026 conference. Unlike traditional search engines that rank results for people, Web IQ provides results in a compressed format that AI agents can quickly process while using fewer tokens. Microsoft executive Jordi Ribas said it was redesigned from scratch using Bing technology built over 20 years. Microsoft said it returns results in 165 milliseconds or less in 95 percent of cases and has been used in Copilot and OpenAI\'s ChatGPT.

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Context before models as agentic OS race intensifies

Competition is intensifying over platforms that optimise multiple AI models with internal corporate data so AI can better understand organisations and execute tasks. Enterprise software companies are treating such platforms, which help AI grasp corporate context and play an operating system role, as strategically important. Microsoft, Snowflake, Adobe and SAP have highlighted products and strategies focused on context layers, governance and services for AI agents, while interest also rises in PCs and chips running AI locally.