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The Platform of Platforms

The State of Agents (Part 5/6) argues the “platform of platforms” cannot be built on APIs alone. It needs a ledger for shared state, audit trails, and settlement, so agents coordinate on verified state, not message passing.

By IXO World
2 days ago
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AI Pilots Burn Cash

The State of Agents (Part 4/6) shifts the conversation from the technical (Architecture/Safety) to the financial (ROI/Business Value), directly addressing the "Pilot Purgatory" that most enterprises are currently experiencing.

By IXO World
9 days ago
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The Agent Management Trap

"HR for bots" is a management trap. Adding agents increases entropy, not just throughput. To build systems that actually work, we need to move from "chat" to "state" and treat AI output as a claim to be settled, not an answer to be trusted. Stop scaling chaos and start building protocols.

By IXO World
14 days ago
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The "AI Overseeing AI" Trap.

The State of Agents (Part 3/6) shifts the focus from what agents do (Skills/Agency) to how we govern them. We believe the current trend of "AI Supervisors" doesn't make sense, and explain why we think "Physics for Agents" is the superior safety model.

By IXO World
17 days ago
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The State of Agents

Agents are getting cheaper by the week. Coordination is not. Especially when this needs to happen across organisational domains and institutional boundaries, or within functional teams using AI agents.

By IXO World
a month ago