🌐 Microsoft’s open agentic web vision

Good morning, AI enthusiasts. Microsoft just kicked off a hotly anticipated AI week with its Construct 2025 event, sharing a vision for an “open agentic web” with a flood of latest tools and platforms.

With Google, Anthropic, and (likely) OpenAI also expected to bring some heat in the approaching days, the AI industry’s next major acceleration may officially be underway.

In today’s AI rundown:

• Microsoft’s vision for an open agentic web

• Microsoft’s recent AI to hurry up science R&D

• Transform photos into talking videos immediately

• AI headphones translate crowds in 3D

• 4 recent AI tools & 4 job opportunities

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MICROSOFT

🌐 Microsoft’s vision for an open agentic web

The Rundown: Microsoft just introduced its vision for an “open agentic web” at Construct 2025, releasing a slew of latest AI-powered tools and upgrades, including a revamped GitHub Copilot, Copilot Studio, Azure Foundry, an AI browser agent, and more.

The main points:

• GitHub Copilot upgrades from an in-editor assistant to an agent that works asynchronously, with Microsoft also open-sourcing Copilot Chat in VS Code.

• Microsoft dropped Magentic-UI, an open-source research prototype for human-in-the-loop web agents, focused on user collaboration and control.

• The corporate can be adding Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini models from xAI to Azure AI Foundry, enabling developers to pick from over 1,900 models.

• A brand new open project called NLWeb goals to be like HTML for the agentic web, making it easy so as to add conversational UI to web sites.

• Copilot expands with recent tuning, allowing orgs to coach models on company data, alongside multi-agent orchestration to collaborate on business tasks.

Why it matters: Microsoft kicked off a giant week in AI with massive announcements at Construct, and while the ‘12 months of the AI agent’ hasn’t yet been as practical as many expected, the needle is moving in the proper direction — as is an industry shift to open source, as evidenced by the tech giant’s flurry of releases.

Watch CEO Satya Nadella’s full keynote here.

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🔬 Microsoft’s recent AI to hurry up science R&D

The Rundown: Microsoft also unveiled Discovery at Construct, a brand new enterprise platform to hurry up scientific research by enabling scientists to team up with specialized AI agents that crunch data and run experiments, accelerating findings from years to hours.

The main points:

• Discovery uses AI “postdoc” agents and a graph-based knowledge engine to assist researchers form hypotheses, simulate experiments, and analyze results.

• Microsoft showcased its power by discovering a novel, non-PFAS datacenter coolant prototype in about 200 hours, a task that sometimes takes months or years.

• Discovery goals to democratize supercomputing, allowing scientists to make use of natural language as a substitute of needing deep coding skills.

• Big names like GSK, Estée Lauder, NVIDIA, and Synopsys are already lining as much as integrate Discovery into R&D for every little thing from pharma to chip design.

Why it matters: Discovery could compress R&D timelines across industries by removing technical barriers between scientists and advanced tools. While previous AI science initiatives have often underdelivered, Microsoft’s approach of mixing AI agents with supercomputing power could help bridge the gap between hype and reality.

AI TRAINING

📸 Transform photos into talking videos immediately

The Rundown: On this tutorial, you’ll learn the right way to use HeyGen’s Avatar IV to show any photo into a practical talking video with only a script and voice selection.

Step-by-step:

1. Visit HeyGen and choose “Photo to Video with Avatar IV” from the Home tab

2. Upload a transparent photo of a face (at the least 720p advisable)

3. Add your script and choose a voice (pick from the library, create recent, or integrate a third-party voice like from ElevenLabs)

4. Click “Generate video” and wait for processing to finish

Pro tip: You must use high-resolution photos with good lighting for essentially the most natural-looking talking avatars.

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AI RESEARCH

🎧 AI headphones translate crowds in 3D

The Rundown: University of Washington researchers just developed an AI-powered headphone system that may translate multiple speakers concurrently while preserving spatial location and unique voice characteristics.

The main points:

• A “Spatial Speech Translation” system uses off-the-shelf noise-canceling headphones rigged with extra mics to choose up surrounding conversations.

• AI algorithms then separate individual speakers, translate speech in real-time, and play it back — preserving each voice qualities and spatial location.

• The device scans 360 degrees like radar to detect and track multiple speakers, at the same time as the topics or the wearer move.

• The tech currently works for Spanish, German, and French with a 2-4 second delay, and might run locally on devices using an Apple M2 chip.

Why it matters: Translation apps have gotten a lot better within the AI era, but still often struggle with real-world scenarios which can be often noisy and bustling. This spatial approach is a practical game changer — and its integration into on a regular basis devices like AirPods would completely change how we interact across language barriers.

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📰 Every part else in AI today

Elon Musk shared more about Grok 3.5 at Construct, saying it’ll reason from first principles and apply physics across all lines of reasoning to be truthful with minimal errors.

Apple’s former Head of AI, John Giannandrea, reportedly lobbied for the corporate to partner with Google’s Gemini over ChatGPT resulting from concerns over trustworthiness.

OpenAI CPO Kevin Weil said that the progression of AI agents from junior developers to senior architects will eventually result in humans supervising AI engineering managers.

Nvidia introduced NVLink Fusion at Computex 2025, a brand new initiative that opens its ecosystem to permit rival CPUs and GPUs to attach with Nvidia hardware.

China issued a press release telling the U.S. to “correct its wrongdoings” following recent guidance that said using Huawei’s AI chips shall be a violation of U.S. export controls.

Google released an Android app for its viral NoteBookLM information tool, allowing users to generate AI podcasts, study guides, briefing documents, and more via mobile.

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Rowan, Joey, Zach, Alvaro, and Jason—The Rundown’s editorial team