Microsoft's new agent stack

Welcome back, Superhuman. The web as we know it is about to change. Now that agents can perform tasks on their own, some companies are starting to rethink their entire business models. Microsoft took its shot this week at mapping out exactly what comes next.

Today’s Insights

• Microsoft Build, Siri 2.0, and an ‘infinite agent’

• NotebookLM’s mobile app, GitHub Copilot goes agentic, and more AI news

• Tutorial: How to turn your product photo into a brand video

• 5 new AI tools to boost your productivity

• News, memes, what’s trending on socials, and more

TODAY IN AI

1. Microsoft lays out its vision for an ‘open agentic web’: The Satya Nadella-led company kicked off its annual Build conference with dozens of major AI-centric announcements. Here are some highlights:

• NLWeb is a new open-source project that lets businesses use proprietary data to create their own chatbot with just a few lines of code. Think of it as “HTML for the agentic web.”

• Microsoft Discovery lets scientists and researchers use AI to come up with new hypotheses and generate simulated experiments. The platform has already discovered a promising new technique for cooling data centers.

• Companies can now use Azure AI Foundry to design and deploy their own agents. You can even call on multiple agents to work together on a particular task. And with support for Model Context Protocol (the “USB-C port of AI apps”), you can now connect your agents to third-party apps, too.

• Microsoft is putting a big focus on safety: “Responsible AI is about building safe, secure, and high-quality AI, and these tools empower developers to do so with confidence,” Mehrnoosh Sameki, Principal Product Lead, Responsible AI, told Superhuman.

2. Apple is still struggling to give Siri an AI refresh: Apple Intelligence has so far been a case of too little, too late, sources told Bloomberg. The iPhone-maker originally wanted to tack AI features onto the current version of the voice assistant. Now, it’s abandoning that idea and starting from scratch, with plans to eventually connect Siri to the internet, giving it access to real-time information. But the delay sounds serious: A member of Apple’s AI team even called it a “crisis,” since it not only affects iPhone sales but also the development of upcoming robots and VR glasses.

3. Startup unveils world’s first ‘infinite AI agent’: A little-known company called Flowith revealed a new platform called Neo that it says beats Manus AI and even OpenAI’s Deep Research on the GAIA benchmark. The app can supposedly handle 1000+ reasoning steps without losing focus, sending off parallel agents to perform different tasks “while you sleep.” You can check out some early demos here.

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AI & TECH NEWS

Everything else you need to know today

📱 Study Buddy: Android and iPhone owners can now download Google’s hit study tool, NotebookLM — including its podcast-like AI Overviews feature — as a standalone app.

🤖 Set and Forget: GitHub’s Copilot programming tool can now take on more agentic tasks on its own, from testing and fixing code to opening pull requests and editing files. It comes just days after OpenAI launched its own agentic coding platform, Codex.

🤔 Hearts and Minds: A new study found that OpenAI’s GPT-4 is more persuasive than human debaters, especially when given personal details, like your age, gender, and political orientation.

👥 Futuristic Finance: Swiss bank UBS has started creating digital replicas of its financial analysts with help from OpenAI and Synthesia, giving its human employees more time for other tasks.

✋ Agents Only: Firecrawl, which uses AI to scrape data from the web, is hiring three AI agents (and presumably three human handlers to manage them) to tackle tasks like coding and customer support — with a budget of $1M.

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SOCIAL SIGNALS

What’s trending on socials today

🌌 Connect the Dots: Someone made an app that lets you “explore human knowledge” by navigating a constellation of 2.8M arXiv papers, helping you find unexpected connections and discoveries.

🧑‍🎨 Artistic Extremes: A Redditor noticed a photo of him looked like a scene out of a Renaissance painting, so he used AI to turn it into a reality. It turns out, ChatGPT can also do the exact opposite — making iconic paintings look like they were created by a five-year-old.

🧑‍💻 Codex Unpacked: If you’re still confused about OpenAI’s new coding tool, solo founder Roy Hermann just posted a helpful five-minute video that breaks it all down.

✍️ Secret Sauce: Meta software engineer Vasuman Moza says you’re probably vibe coding all wrong. Here’s his step-by-step guide to help you get the most out of Cursor.

🎀 Open to Interpretation: Redditors are asking ChatGPT to generate images of them based on their username, and the results are “adorable.”

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