News Summary

• Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled Fabric IQ and Foundry IQ, new capabilities aimed at connecting AI agents with relevant data.
• Both were introduced during Ignite, Microsoft's annual user conference in San Francisco.
• Fabric IQ, now in preview, is an extension of the semantic layer that gives data context in Power BI.Foundry IQ is built on Azure AI Search and automates retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines.
• Microsoft also introduced Azure HorizonDB, a new cloud database service designed to help customers develop and modernize crucial business applications, including AI agents.