March 24, 2025 — Today saw significant AI agent advancements across enterprise, infrastructure, and military sectors. Accenture expanded its AI Refinery platform with a no-code agent builder aimed at accelerating industry-specific agent teams for telecom, finance, and insurance workflows, projecting 100 solutions by year-end. Ant Group announced a 20% cost reduction in AI training using Chinese-developed chips like Huawei's, challenging NVIDIA's dominance while maintaining performance parity with H800 GPUs. In infrastructure tooling, Moderne launched Moddy—an AI agent for cross-repository code modernization using OpenRewrite's semantic trees to automate tasks like SQL conversion. OpenAI debuted new agent-building tools including a Responses API and Agents SDK, enabling automated computer interactions via mouse/keyboard action capture. Meanwhile, IBM Research released the Agent Communication Protocol to standardize multi-agent collaboration. The crypto market reacted to AI infrastructure developments, with SingularityNET (AGIX) spiking 7.2% following @MilkRoadDaily's tweet about AI's "Infrastructure Phase". Asian data centers saw record funding deals, including Bridge Data Centres' $2.8B loan for Malaysian expansion, driven by AI compute demand. In defense tech, Shield AI secured $240M to scale Hivemind Enterprise for autonomous military aircraft operations. Microsoft partners highlighted agent-led business use cases at their AI Agent Summit, emphasizing research automation and Dynamics 365 integrations.