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This week on Tech 4 Thought, we zoom in on platform power and the new agent battlegrounds. We break down Microsoft & OpenAI’s restructured deal, Amazon vs. Perplexity over AI shopping agents, why AI browsers are raising security alarms, and what we learned speaking and hanging out at Community Summit / PPCC.

📚 Topics Covered:
• Microsoft–OpenAI restructure: why removing the capped-profit constraints matters, how a public-benefit corp fits with a ~$500B valuation, and what unlimited fundraising means for the AI race
• Platform power & agents: does OpenAI’s new flexibility tilt the field for Anthropic, Google, Meta, and everyone else?
• Amazon vs. Perplexity (Comet): legal threats over an AI that shops on your behalf, terms of service vs. user choice, and who owns the checkout funnel
• Liability in AI shopping: when an agent buys the wrong thing (or gets scammed), who’s actually on the hook—the platform, the agent, or the user?
• AI browsers as a security threat: Atlas, Comet, and friends; prompt-injection, spoofed sidebars, token theft, and why agents dramatically expand the attack surface
• What safe AI browsing should look like: sandboxing, scopes, identity separation, and minimum controls before you let an agent near your logins or wallet

Conference Corner – Community Summit / PPCC:

• Multi-agent orchestration and how real teams are trying to use it
• Sahib and Chris speaking at a summit with 5,000+ people, and Chris’s talk on governance
• LinkedIn hype cycles: “low-code/no-code is dead” vs. what’s actually happening on Power Platform
• How to get buy-in from slow or non-adopters of AI in general
• Tribal knowledge & change management: when crucial know-how lives in people’s heads instead of SOPs

💬 Reactions, takeaways, and hot takes from the whole Tech 4 Thought crew—plus honest thoughts on whether we’re heading toward a healthy agent ecosystem or just a bigger, riskier platform lock-in.

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