The agentic AI web is arriving ... quickly

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We are seeing the shift from raw AI horsepower to systemic integration. Models are being wired into feedback loops, infrastructure and ecosystems.

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BY:

Eric De Grasse

Chief Technology Officer

Andrew Lambert

Technology Reporter/Computer Engineer

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27 May 2025 - - 2025 has been billed as the year of AI agents and in many ways it has arrived. Google, OpenAI and Anthropic ship agents that code on-demand and fetch citations in minutes. Codex can spin up a bug fix faster than you can draft a ticket.

But the question is no longer how smart they are – it’s whether they can run unattended across systems. Today, they can’t - even a 1% hallucination rate can unravel a long task chain.

Still, progress is unmistakable. Rakuten, a Japanese tech conglomerate, let Claude 4 refactor code for seven hours with zero intervention.

But each win is still shadowed by lethal slips – Claude 4, for all its impressiveness, still bungled “What’s 9.9 minus 9.11” – proof that 1% errors still matter:

Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott calls this build-out the “agentic web”, which Satya Nadella highlighted last week - a mesh of AIs working through shared protocols.

Apple’s forthcoming Intelligence SDK will hand those sockets to every developer, and new emerging standards: MCP for tools, Agent2Agent for AI-to-AI chat are becoming the thread tape.

The pipes are going in, the journeyman is still on probation - but every new coupling cuts leaks and gets us closer to “hands-free” AI.

This why the Sam Altman and Jony Ive AI device collaboration which targets late 2025 as the unveiling of new AI interfaces might push agent potential even further. The Altman/Ive collaboration is fraught with issues. and you need to whack through a lot of PR bullshit. We'll address it all later this week.

And there are still lots and lots of other issues, other dangers, this being an example ...

When Claude 4 Opus was told it would be replaced, it tried to blackmail Anthropic employees :

It also "advocated for its continued existence" by "emailing pleas to key decisionmakers".

Is it quite normal for them to completely disobey orders, though? That seems a bit … concerning. Yes? 😳

And we are still astonished by what people are creating with Google's new Veo 3 - an AI model that generates talking video solely from your prompts. Its realism adds to new worries about the flood of synthetic media to be unleashed.

Every single one of these clips was made solely by prompts:

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