US EditionMicrosoft Goes All in on Anthropic's MCP Standard for Safer AI Agent Deployments
- Microsoft and its subsidiary GitHub joined Anthropic's MCP steering committee and announced broad support for the MCP standard at the Build 2025 conference in San Francisco on May 19, 2025.
- The adoption follows earlier endorsements by OpenAI and Google this year and responds to the growing industry need to connect AI models securely to external data sources through a universal open protocol.
- MCP enables AI agents to access data in business applications, cloud platforms like Azure and Google Cloud, and software development tools via two-way connections, with Microsoft integrating it across Windows 11, Azure, and GitHub services.
- Microsoft detailed partnerships to develop updated authorization standards employing trusted sign-in approaches to secure access for AI-driven applications and introduced a new registry system within Windows to manage MCP server listings.
- These initiatives aim to support secure, scalable agent-based workflows with improved memory and interoperability, signaling wider industry acceptance of shared AI infrastructure and advancing trustworthy agentic experiences.
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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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GitHub and Microsoft adopt Anthropic MCP for AI data links
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