Microsoft Declares the Era of AI Agents

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💻 Microsoft Declares the Era of AI Agents

🎬 How to Instantly Generate Video Ads Using Higgsfield’s New AI Ads Tool

🎧 Real-Time Multi-Speaker Translation

🏆 Tools and Shifts you Cannot Miss

💻 Microsoft Declares the Era of AI Agents

At Build 2025, Microsoft laid out a sweeping plan for the "open agentic web," a future where AI agents handle coding, workflows, and user tasks at scale. From GitHub Copilot to multi-agent orchestration, nearly every product line got a boost. 

The Shift:

• GitHub Copilot Becomes an Autonomous Dev Partner - Copilot now operates asynchronously across tasks, writes features, and fixes bugs in cloud sandboxes. Microsoft open-sourced Copilot Chat in VS Code, and introduced Copilot Tuning so orgs can train agents on internal data. 

• Azure AI Foundry Gets Multi-Agent Power - The platform now hosts 1,900+ models, adds Grok 3, and offers orchestration across agents. Foundry also includes governance, observability, and Microsoft Entra Agent ID to manage agent security and compliance. 

• NLWeb and MCP Standardize the Agentic Web - Microsoft introduced NLWeb, a new protocol like HTML for conversational UIs, and doubled down on MCP, now integrated across GitHub, Windows, and Copilot. Watch CEO Satya Nadella’s full keynote here.

• Copilot Studio Adds Multi-Agent Orchestration - New workflows let multiple agents collaborate on complex business tasks with domain-specific training. Microsoft 365 Copilot now supports custom tuning via low-code setups inside the M365 boundary. 

This wasn’t just a product showcase, it was Microsoft staking claim to the future of autonomous software. With open standards, dev tools, and security layers all aligned, the agentic web is no longer a theory, it’s a roadmap. 

🎬 How to Instantly Generate Video Ads Using Higgsfield’s New AI Ads Tool

Higgsfield’s AI Ads tool is the fastest way to turn your product image into a scroll-stopping video ad. No editing, no actors, no scriptwriting — just choose a template, upload your product, and let the AI do the rest. It’s built for brands that want high-conversion creatives in minutes, not days.

Step 1: Open Higgsfield Ads: Go to higgsfield.ai/ads and log in. From the homepage, click on the Ads section to get started.

Step 2: Choose a Video Template: Browse through a set of preset ad templates, each designed to mimic real viral video styles like influencer shoutouts, lifestyle demos, or face-to-camera TikTok ads. Select the one that fits your product or brand vibe.

Step 3: Upload Your Product Image: Once you’ve selected a template, upload your product photo. That’s all you need, no video clips, no actors, no audio tracks.

Step 4: Click Generate: With one click, Higgsfield generates multiple video variations of your selected template, all featuring your product seamlessly placed into the scene.

Step 5: Download and Use: Preview the versions, choose your favorite, and download it. You now have ad-ready videos perfect for TikTok, Instagram, or Meta ads.

Why It Matters: This isn’t just automation, it’s creative production on autopilot. In under 60 seconds, Higgsfield turns a static image into a polished ad, letting marketers focus on results, not timelines.

🎧 Real-Time Multi-Speaker Translation

University of Washington researchers have unveiled a game-changing AI system that turns ordinary headphones into real-time multilingual interpreters. Unlike current translation tools that fail in noisy or dynamic environments, this breakthrough preserves each speaker’s voice and spatial location, even when they move. 

The Shift:

1. 360° Speech Detection - The system uses noise-canceling headphones modified with external mics to scan the environment. It detects and separates multiple voices in a 360-degree radius, even while the user or speakers move. 

2. Voice-Preserving Translation - AI algorithms translate in 2-4 seconds while preserving each person’s voice, tone, and location. The translated speech plays back as if it’s coming from the original speaker. This makes conversations sound natural, not robotic.

3. Works Offline, Runs Locally - The system processes everything on-device using Apple’s M2 chip, avoiding the cloud entirely. That keeps conversations private and responsive without relying on internet access. It's currently optimized for Spanish, French, and German.

4. Tested, Preferred, and Evolving - User tests across 10 settings showed clear preference for the system over single-speaker models. Participants preferred a slight delay for better accuracy, and researchers aim to reduce that further. The tech can potentially scale to 100+ languages and future smart devices.

This AI-powered headphone system is a step toward effortless multilingual communication in the real world. By preserving both the voices and spatial direction of multiple speakers, it solves a core problem in live translation.

🏆 AI Tools for the Shift

🔗 AI Marketer for LinkedIn – Automate your LinkedIn growth with an AI agent. Build leads, post content, and grow visibility hands-free.

📚 AI Book Translate – Translate full books in hours, not weeks. Accurate, fast, and affordable for authors worldwide.

🎧 Blobfish AI – Train call center agents at scale with conversational AI. Boost performance and lower coaching costs.

🖼️ Imgnai – Bring your wildest ideas to life with unrestrained AI image generation. A limitless visual playground powered by LLMs.

💰Quick Shifts

 💭Trump signs the Take It Down Act, criminalizing deepfake and real NCII with 3-year prison terms, mandating 48-hour takedowns, sparking backlash over free speech, encryption risks, and selective enforcement fears.

 🧵GitHub’s new AI coding agent can fix bugs, add features, and improve docs autonomously. It runs in Copilot Pro Plus, clones repos, logs reasoning, and responds to feedback, no manual coding needed.

🛍️ Grok 3 and Grok 3 Mini are now available on Microsoft Azure with enterprise controls, marking xAI’s first major hyperscaler deal and a more moderated version of Elon Musk’s controversial chatbot.

🎙️ Klarna’s AI overhaul boosted revenue per employee to nearly $1M, up from $575K, by slashing customer service costs and replacing 700 reps with chatbots, though human agents are now returning by demand.

🧠 Ex-Siri chief John Giannandrea reportedly urged Apple to choose Google’s Gemini over ChatGPT, citing privacy concerns and doubts about OpenAI’s longevity, yet Apple moved ahead with ChatGPT integration anyway.

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