Microsoft’s pivot toward Anthropic — folding the Claude family and the company’s Cowork agent technology into the heart of Microsoft 365 Copilot — is neither a quiet product tweak nor a harmless branding exercise; it is a strategic reset with technical, commercial and governance implications...
Microsoft and Anthropic’s recent moves make plain what many technologists and strategists have been warning about: vertical, agentic AI applications are being harnessed into horizontal cloud and productivity platforms at scale, then repackaged as profitable enterprise bundles—and that process is...