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#10: OpenAI’s Next Big Move, Claude’s New Superpowers & the Rise of A2A

#10: OpenAI’s Next Big Move, Claude’s New Superpowers & the Rise of A2A

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Oliver Parker
April 21, 2025

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📢 Top Stories This Week

OpenAI Eyes Major Agent Expansion

OpenAI is in advanced talks to acquire Windsurf, an AI coding agent startup, following earlier interest in Cursor. The move would supercharge OpenAI’s efforts to dominate agentic software development.
Signal: The arms race to build autonomous dev agents is accelerating—expect deeper GitHub/Copilot integrations.

Claude Just Got Smarter

Anthropic's Claude now supports advanced reasoning, Gmail/Calendar access, and ecosystem-wide search—blending speed with high-quality multi-source research.
Plus: Anthropic made its first startup investment—$1M into Goodfire, focused on decoding AI internals.

Microsoft Levels Up Copilot Agents

Copilot Studio’s new “Computer Use” feature lets agents control UI elements directly—click buttons, fill forms, navigate complex software without APIs.
Implication: This bridges the gap between legacy software and AI workflows. A huge unlock for enterprises.

Google’s A2A: Agent Protocol for the Future

Google unveiled Agent-to-Agent (A2A), a standard protocol for multi-agent systems. Agents can now discover, communicate, and collaborate—paving the way for plug-and-play agent ecosystems.

Spur Raises $4.5M for Browser-Based QA Testing Agents

Spur, which emulates real users navigating browsers with AI agents, has raised $4.5M from investors including First Round, Pear VC, Neo, and others. The company uses AI browser agents that click around web pages like real human users to perform quality analysis testing, already serving 30+ enterprise customers including Fortune 500 companies.

96% of Enterprises Expanding Use of AI Agents

According to latest data from Cloudera, 96% of enterprises are expanding their use of AI agents. The report states that "In 2025, agentic AI is taking center stage, building on the momentum of generative AI but with even greater operational impact."

🛠 Quick Hits

Google launched Firebase Studio — a direct competitor to Cursor – and it's free.
OpenAI published a practical guide to building LLM-based agents for real-world use. For builders: Covers tool use, memory, function calling, and multi-agent coordination.
Infosys claims to have developed 200+ internal AI agents across business units. Enterprise signal: Fortune 500s are no longer experimenting—they’re scaling.
Together AI released Open Deep Research, an open-source agent for multi-step web analysis.
Spacelift launched Saturnhead AI, a DevOps assistant to accelerate issue resolution.
IBM’s Granite 3.3 is its most multimodal model series to date.
Cohere released Embed 4, a multimodal embedding model for powering agentic search.
Hence launched an AI advisor for geopolitical risk management amid rising trade tensions.

🔮 Looking Ahead

Expect Meta or Apple to release foundational agent frameworks in the coming quarter.
The “Agent-as-Customer” model is growing—AI agents will not only serve you, but buy from your product. Are you ready for that shift?
Agent marketplaces are on the rise—standardization and reputation systems will be the next battleground.

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