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Microsoft embraces its rival's protocol
Plus: Google’s new whitepaper on agent design, how to tell an agent from a sham, and more
Michael Cunningham
May 08, 2025
Welcome back to Building AI Agents, your biweekly guide to everything new in the field of agentic AI!
In 2023, a chaotic AI video of Will Smith eating spaghetti went viral—glitchy, surreal, and oddly unforgettable. Just two years later, it’s a reference point for how far AI video has come. What looked like a joke then now shows just how fast this tech is evolving.
2023:
— Digital Trends (@DigitalTrends)
1:30 AM • Apr 26, 2025
“Sure AI can now do this, but there’s no way it will ever be able to do that.” Spoiler alert: it will be doing that in 6 months.
In today’s issue…
Microsoft yields to Google in the agent protocol war
Google’s new whitepaper on agent design
A taxonomy of agent failure modes
How to tell an agent from a sham
…and more
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