Microsoft Build 2026: Work IQ and Web IQ APIs Give Agents Org Context and MCP-Native Search

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At Build (June 2), Microsoft unveiled Work IQ APIs — generally available June 16 — that provide programmatic access to an organizational intelligence layer so agents get the context they need to act inside a company. It also introduced Web IQ, a model-agnostic, MCP-native AI-first web search stack that returns relevant passages at nearly 2.5x the speed of the next-best alternative. Together they signal Microsoft betting on context-and-retrieval plumbing as the differentiator for enterprise agents, distinct from raw model quality.