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.

Enterprise AI vendor Uniphore has acquired CDP ActionIQ and cloud data engineering system Infoworks.  The combination of products will create a Zero Data AI Cloud that simplifies AI deployments by enabling companies to access data for AI projects without moving it from existing systems.  Prices were not announced.