Build 2026 was not short on announcements. Microsoft covered Windows, Edge, GitHub, Azure, M365, devices, and models in one sweep. The interesting thread across all of them is governance and control.
Azure AI Foundry is not another chatbot wrapper. It is the agent management layer most teams actually need: tracing, evaluation, deployment, and auditability.
Microsoft's Agent Governance Toolkit adds deterministic policy enforcement for autonomous agents. Code-level gates, identity trails, and tamper-evident audit records.
AI agents need governed data to be useful. Salesforce and Informatica are turning that connection into infrastructure.
