You get an agent, and you get an agent, and you get an agent — everybody gets their own AI agent using 1,800 large language models that Microsoft is making available to enterprise customers.  Preview announcements at Microsoft’s Ignite 2024 conference included pre-built autonomous agents, no-code agent-building tools, and AI-powered app creation assistants. Microsoft’s AI eco-system may be the largest: some say, “no one else is close.”

Meta faces a fine of 800 million euros (about $840 million) after E.U. regulators found it in breach of competition law by exposing Facebook Marketplace to millions of users in its wider social networks. The E.U. seeks to prevent businesses with dominance in one area (like social media) to use it to gain dominance in another area (in this case shopping). This comes as India levies a modest $24.5 million fine over WhatsApp data sharing.

ChatGPT is hoping to grab another slice of your attention with Pulse, a now-in-limited-preview feature that will proactively deliver daily updates on information it thinks you’ll find useful. The new service is positioned as a personal assistant that will select contents “based on your chats, feedback, and connected apps like your calendar.” Forget about privacy; the real question is whether this becomes a news source that gives ChatGPT the ability to shape your opinions.