Welcome to Episode 14 of the Agents Unleashed Podcast, the show that helps you find signal in the noisy world of agentic AI.Hosted by Thomas Maybrier (Digital Media Producer, Valory), this episode dives into three recent developments from the frontlines of agentic AI: Grok’s controversial model behavior, Microsoft’s leap into medical diagnostics with agentic AI, and a timely discussion from Agents Unleashed Cannes on why protocols, not just frameworks, will define the next era of AI agent design.
If you’re curious about how these systems are evolving, what risks we need to manage, and how to stay informed in the chaos of AI hype, this episode has what you’re looking for.
In This Episode:Transparency gaps and political bias in Grok-4 by xAI
Microsoft’s MAI‑DxO outperforms doctors using multi-agent systems
Ron Bodkin on why protocols are foundational for agentic interoperability
What 50M+ health-related queries a day tell us about AI’s role in care
A few quick hits from the frontlines of open source and infrastructureResources & Links:Boaz Barak on Grok 4 → https://x.com/boazbaraktcs/status/1945165577154175288
Simon Willison on X → https://x.com/simonw/status/1945108916309746077
Read Matteo Wong in The Atlantic → https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/07/new-grok-racism-elon-musk/683515/
Read “The Path to Medical Superintelligence” → https://microsoft.ai/new/the-path-to-medical-superintelligence
Watch Agents Unleashed Cannes panels → https://olas.network/agents-unleashed
Mistral Voxtral → https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral
AWS goes in on agents → https://www.techradar.com/pro/its-a-tectonic-change-aws-ai-head-calls-agents-the-most-impactful-change-weve-seen-since-the-dawn-of-the-internet
GameNGen - DOOM as a neural diffusion model → https://gamengen.github.io/
Try Pearl → https://olas.network/operate
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