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AI Breakdown · May 21, 2025 · 22m

Microsoft Build: The Age of AI Agents

Nathaniel Whittemore
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Microsoft Build 2025 focuses on AI agents and the open agent web. NLW argues the biggest news is the tone: the time for pilots is over.

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Microsoft is designing the agent environment — whoever controls the agent infrastructure controls agent behavior
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The Stoic response to platform lock-in — focus on portable skills, not platform-specific ones
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