Martin Scorsese
American filmmaker, director, producer, and film preservation advocate, best known for influential films such as Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, The Departed, The Wolf of Wall Street, and Killers of the Flower Moon. In the cited AI context, he is featured as a filmmaker discussing AI-assisted visual and storyboarding workflows for cinema.
Microsoft Bets Enterprise Agents Will Run Through the Cloud
John Coogan reads Microsoft Build 2026 as a sign that Microsoft is trying to make the cloud, not the phone, the center of enterprise AI agents. On Diet TBPN, he argues that Project Solara, Scout, OpenClaw support and Microsoft’s own models point to a platform strategy built around Azure, Microsoft 365 data, security boundaries and cost-efficient deployment rather than frontier-model supremacy. The open question, he says, is whether agent hardware and workflows can win adoption outside environments where companies can mandate them.
Useful AI Systems Are Emerging Inside Controlled Enterprise Workflows
TBPN’s latest discussion framed the commercial AI moment less as a race to looser autonomy than as a shift toward bounded systems. Across Microsoft’s Build announcements, Suno’s funding, creator films, stablecoins, crypto markets, cybersecurity, and workflow software, the central argument was that AI becomes useful when it is embedded in infrastructure that can price, route, audit, secure, or constrain it. John Coogan and guests applied that lens most directly to Microsoft’s agent strategy, where Azure and Microsoft 365, not a new phone, become the controlled operating environment for enterprise agents.