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May 23, 2026 · 5 min read

Microsoft Just Priced Its Own Agents Above Human Labor

Microsoft's own data shows token costs for many agent workflows exceed comparable human labor. The cost-efficiency case is real, just not where the press releases say it is.

May 22, 2026 · 6 min read

Agentic Commerce: A Practitioner's Definition

A working definition of agentic commerce, the four layers it sits on, and what changes when the buyer is no longer a human.

May 22, 2026 · 5 min read

Microsoft's Open Browser Agents Beat OpenAI's Closed One

Microsoft Research released Fara1.5 this week, a family of open-weight browser agents that beat OpenAI's Operator on the standard benchmark.