Anthropic’s latest expansion marks a sharp pivot from Silicon Valley scale-up to global enterprise platform, as the company moves to triple its international workforce, multiply its applied AI engineering teams, and push its Claude large language models deeper into corporate workflows worldwide...
Anthropic’s decision to triple its international workforce and quintuple its applied-AI team before the end of 2025 marks one of the clearest signals yet that the generative-AI market has gone global—and that the company behind Claude is positioning itself to be a dominant international player...
Anthropic’s decision to triple its international workforce and expand its customer help team fivefold in 2025 marks a decisive pivot from Bay Area scaling to global market execution — a move driven by an explosive surge in enterprise demand for Claude and underpinned by fresh capital that values...
OpenAI and Anthropic now sit on the public stage while Microsoft and Amazon wage a quieter, higher‑stakes contest for the cloud and compute hegemony that will shape the AI decade ahead.
Background: how we got here
The current alignment — OpenAI with Microsoft and Anthropic with Amazon — is the...
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Anthropic’s latest public dataset and a fresh wave of industry reporting make one thing uncomfortably clear: artificial intelligence is not drifting into the mainstream — it’s charging in, and its adoption pattern is already reshaping who benefits and who lags behind. The company’s September 15...
Microsoft is weaving its AI assistant deeper into the Office experience by rolling Copilot Chat and agent capabilities directly into core Microsoft 365 apps — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote — bringing a unified, in-context chat pane and a raft of new tools aimed at turning an AI...
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This week’s AI headlines — from a fresh congressional bill that would reshape how high‑performance chips are sold, to the U.S. government’s rollback of an earlier export-control framework, and Microsoft’s quiet decision to split Office 365’s AI supply between OpenAI and Anthropic — have combined...
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Anthropic has rolled out an optional Memory capability for Claude that is now available to Team and Enterprise plan customers, enabling the assistant to retain and recall project- and work-related context across sessions while giving admins and users controls to view, edit, and disable what the...
The long-running honeymoon between Microsoft and OpenAI has entered a new, more transactional phase: the two companies have signed a non‑binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) that lays out a revised partnership framework while OpenAI pursues a controversial restructure that hands a very...
Paul Thurrott’s Windows Weekly episode continues the show’s long-running mix of practical Windows tips, industry gossip, and ecosystem-level analysis — this week touching off from Patch Tuesday and a surprise Windows 11 ISO release, then threading through Microsoft’s return‑to‑office policy...
Microsoft has quietly begun a major pivot in the architecture that powers the AI features inside Office apps: Copilot will now route select workloads to Anthropic’s Claude family — notably the Sonnet 4 models — while continuing to use OpenAI models and Microsoft’s own engines where they remain...
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Microsoft’s reported decision to license Anthropic’s Claude models into Microsoft 365 — bringing them into productivity features in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook — is the most explicit signal yet that Microsoft plans to move from a single‑vendor AI stack to a multi‑model Copilot strategy...
Microsoft’s Office productivity stack is entering a new phase: after years of deep reliance on OpenAI, Microsoft will begin routing select Copilot workloads inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook to Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 models, creating a multi‑model Copilot that assigns the “right...
Microsoft’s productivity stack is entering a new, more plural era: after years of deep integration with OpenAI’s models, Microsoft is reported to be adding Anthropic’s Claude — specifically the Sonnet model family — into Office 365’s Copilot workflows, creating a multi‑model orchestration that...
Microsoft’s Office productivity stack is entering a deliberate, workload‑focused transformation: Redmond will begin routing select Copilot and Office 365 features to Anthropic’s Claude models — notably the Sonnet 4 family — alongside continued use of OpenAI and Microsoft’s own models, a...
Microsoft has quietly begun the most consequential recalibration of its productivity‑AI stack since Copilot’s debut: Office 365 will now route select Copilot workloads to Anthropic’s Claude family—most notably the Sonnet 4 lineage—alongside continued use of OpenAI models and Microsoft’s own...
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Microsoft’s Office 365 product line is poised for a material AI shift: sources say Redmond will begin routing certain Copilot and Office features to Anthropic’s Claude models — notably the Sonnet 4 family — alongside continued use of OpenAI and Microsoft’s own models, a move that reflects both...
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Microsoft’s move to fold Anthropic’s Claude models into Office 365 marks a clear turning point in the company’s AI strategy: after years of heavy reliance on OpenAI, Microsoft is now building a multi-vendor, task‑optimized Copilot that mixes Anthropic, OpenAI, and its own in‑house models to...
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Microsoft’s decision to fold Anthropic’s models into Office 365 represents a deliberate, high-stakes recalibration of its AI supply chain — one that pares dependence on a single vendor, broadens technical options inside Copilot features, and reshapes enterprise risk calculations for productivity...
Microsoft’s reported decision to integrate Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 into Microsoft 365 marks a deliberate and consequential step away from a single‑provider AI strategy and toward a multi‑model, standards‑based future for enterprise productivity tools. This move — first reported today by...
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