Microsoft’s Copilot has shed its single‑vendor skin: business customers can now pick Anthropic’s Claude models alongside OpenAI inside Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio, a shift that transforms Copilot from a single‑backed assistant into an explicit multi‑model orchestration platform...
Microsoft's Microsoft 365 Copilot is no longer a single‑vendor show: starting today the company is adding Anthropic’s Claude family — notably Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 — as selectable backends inside Copilot, giving organizations the ability to route specific Copilot workloads to...
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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...
Waitaki District Council’s cautious, staff-first rollout of generative AI shows how a small public body can harness large language models for practical gains—while keeping human judgment, privacy safeguards and governance firmly in the driver’s seat. The council’s chief digital officer, Teresa...
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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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The AI you keep open in a browser tab is doing more than answering queries — it's broadcasting something about how you think, what you value, and how you want the world to work. A recent cultural riff that maps people to their preferred models — from OpenAI’s GPT‑5 users to xAI’s Grok fans and...
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AI chatbots are now answering more questions — and, according to a fresh NewsGuard audit, they are also repeating falsehoods far more often, producing inaccurate or misleading content in roughly one out of every three news‑related responses during an August 2025 audit cycle.
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When a single AI service becomes central to millions of workflows, a short outage stops more than casual conversation — it exposes systemic fragility and forces users to choose alternatives they may previously have ignored. Recent market shifts and intermittent service interruptions have pushed...
I hooked Claude into my Notion workspace and, within a few minutes, the chaos of dozens of interdependent tasks—scattered deadlines, vague titles, and hidden prerequisites—began to feel manageable in a way no purely human triage had delivered. What started as an experiment with an AI assistant...
Anthropic’s abrupt switch to an opt‑out model for training Claude on consumer conversations has forced a long‑overdue reckoning: if you want to keep your chats from being recycled into the next generation of chatbots, you must actively say so — and the same is true for ChatGPT and Google’s...
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Jagran Josh’s roundup that purports to name “the most-used AI chatbots in 2025” landed in inboxes and social feeds with a punchy list—ChatGPT at the top with a jaw‑dropping 46.59 billion “users,” followed by a clutch of U.S. and China‑based rivals—but a closer look shows the headline numbers...
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A cascade of product updates and policy shifts landed across the tech world today: Vivaldi’s CEO publicly rejected embedding large language model (LLM) features into its browser, Anthropic revised Claude’s privacy policy to use user chats for model training (opt-out required), Microsoft changed...
Android phones quietly run a constellation of AI services every day — from autocomplete and face unlock to route planning — and in 2025 a small set of free Android apps now make that intelligence easily accessible to anyone with a smartphone. This feature distills a TechCabal roundup into a...
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Chatbots have moved from novelty to utility, and in 2025 a crowded field of capable, often free, AI assistants stands ready to handle everything from drafting emails and analyzing spreadsheets to generating images and supporting mental well‑being. The most practical choices depend on what you...
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Fundamental Research Labs’ new product, Shortcut, has forced a familiar office question into the open: if spreadsheets can be written, audited, and modeled by agentic AI from a single natural-language prompt, does anybody still need to open Excel every day?
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Artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly permeated various facets of our daily lives, from drafting English essays to influencing Google search results and even shaping advertising campaigns for major brands like Coca-Cola. Central to this AI revolution is ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI, which has...
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In the digital revolution of 2025, free AI chatbots have evolved far beyond their initial role as simple conversation partners. Today, they serve as research aides, developers' assistants, creative collaborators, and even personal companions—all while emphasizing performance, security, and...
Anthropic is shaking up the AI landscape with a new web search capability for its AI assistant, Claude. Gone are the days when AI models were limited to regurgitating memorized data with a static knowledge cutoff—in favor of an assistant that now dynamically searches the web for up-to-the-minute...
In a world where artificial intelligence is evolving faster than the speed of your Windows 11 updates, ChatGPT may have stolen the spotlight—but it’s far from the only act on the generative AI stage. After my extensive prompt-off tests comparing nine top ChatGPT alternatives, it’s clear that the...