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Microsoft Build 2025: Building the "Open Agentic Web" 🌐
Use the Google app to “Simplify” any eye-watering jargon you read on your iPhone
Gina Acosta
May 20, 2025
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Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,
Satya Nadella just made a slew of AI announcements during the opening day of Microsoft’s Build 2025.
Let’s jump into it!
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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI
Microsoft Reveals Plans for an Open Agentic Web
Chicago Paper’s “Reading List” Full of Fake, AI-Generated Titles
AI Tutorial: Use the Google app to “Simplify” any eye-watering jargon you read on your iPhone
AI Tools to check out
The Latest in AI and Tech 💡
AI Findings/Resources
AI News
MICROSOFT
Microsoft Reveals Plans for an Open Agentic Web
Satya Nadella, at Microsoft’s annual Build conference this morning, announced that the company is aiming to build an “open agentic web,” introducing dozens of AI tools and platforms. Here are the highlights so far:
Details:
GitHub Copilot has evolved from simply helping people complete code into an autonomous agent with asynchronous code testing, capable of operating as a member of software development teams.
The company is launching an open project called NLWeb, that lets websites provide a “conversational interface” for their users with a few lines of code, the AI model of their choice, and their own data.
Microsoft Discovery, an extensible platform created to enable researchers to transform the entire discovery process with agentic AI, helps research and development departments across various industries accelerate the time to market for new products and speed up and expand the end-to-end discovery process for all scientists.
The Azure AI Foundry Agent Service is now generally available, allowing developers to build enterprise-grade AI agents with support for multi-agent workflows and open protocols like Agent2Agent (A2A) and Model Context Protocol (MCP).
Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini are both coming to Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry service.
Microsoft introduced an experimental human-centered web agent called Magentic-UI, designed to perform complex online tasks with a focus on user collaboration.
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
Chicago Paper’s “Reading List” Full of Fake, AI-Generated Titles
The Chicago Sun-Times is facing criticism after its May 18, 2025, issue included a summer reading list featuring fabricated book titles, likely generated by AI.
Details:
The list falsely attributed works to real authors, such as Min Jin Lee and Rebecca Makkai, and included fictitious titles like "Nightshade Market" and "Boiling Point."
The creator of the list, Marco Buscaglia, confirmed to 404 Media that he uses AI “for background at times” and always checks the material.
On the other hand, the newspaper has stated that the content was not created or approved by its newsroom and is investigating the matter.
The case highlights AI’s current limitations as today’s models continue to struggle with hallucinations, which AI makers still haven’t figured out how to detect or prevent, so it remains essential to double-check their output.
AI Tutorial
Use the Google app to “Simplify” any eye-watering jargon you read on your iPhone
The new Simplify feature in Google’s mobile app rewrites any jargon-filled internet text into language that doesn’t require a specialty dictionary, without losing key details and without leaving the app.
To use Simplify, you’ll need to browse the web from the Google app.
Highlight the “complicated text,” and a little Simplify button will appear.
Tapping the button will rework that highlighted paragraph into something far more comprehensible to the average person.
Simplify is essentially a shortcut for Google’s Gemini AI. Google Research designed a prompt-optimization process that asks Gemini to transform the text into something easier to understand behind the scenes. So, it basically removes the need to copy and paste opaque text into Gemini or ChatGPT every time you run up against a linguistic roadblock.
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AI Findings/Resources
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The latest in AI and Tech
The new legislation imposes criminal penalties of up to three years in prison and fines for individuals who distribute nonconsensual intimate images (NCII), including AI-generated deepfakes. It also mandates that social media platforms remove flagged NCII content within 48 hours and make reasonable efforts to eliminate any copies.
Microsoft is adding AI Actions, giving you quick access to AI-powered features like background removal and blur, object erase, and more. Just right-click a file and select "AI Actions" from the menu.
The U.K. tech start-up is entering bankruptcy proceedings after admitting to “problems” under its past leadership and restating its revenues.
The app appears to offer similar functionality to the desktop version of NotebookLM and is now available for Android on Google Play, and for iOS and iPadOS via the App Store.
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