Do you think it’s time to turn an AI agent loose to do your procurement for you? As that could be a potentially expensive experiment to conduct in the real world, Microsoft is attempting to determine whether agent-to-agent ecommerce will really work, without the risk of using it in a live environment. Earlier this week, a team of its researchers launched the Magentic Marketplace, an initiative they described as an “an open source simulation environment for exploring the numerous possibilities of agentic markets and their societal implications at scale.” It manages capabilities such as maintain...