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At Microsoft Build, the company's VP of AI Core Jay Parikh sat down to talk about what it actually takes to run AI agents at enterprise scale. The message was pointed: building an agent harness is the easy part. The harder work is building end-to-end systems that deliver measurable returns and hold up under real-world reliability demands.
On the open-source side, a developer has released Tempest, an agent orchestration platform with a different philosophy than most tools in the space. Rather than running more agents simultaneously, Tempest is designed to make each individual agent consume fewer tokens. It sits on top of existing tools like Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and Cursor Agent, so there is no separate subscription required.
And a deeply serious legal story is developing around AI-generated child sexual abuse material. A class action lawsuit is expanding, targeting the platforms and technologies implicated in producing deepfake imagery of minors. It is a case that will test how courts and legislators assign accountability when AI systems cause direct, irreversible harm to real people.
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