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Microsoft’s Copilot problem is increasingly becoming a brand problem, a workflow problem, and, for investors, a growth problem. When a fund manager says the product “feels like Teams” and that her firm is replacing it with Claude, that is not just a snarky sound bite; it is a shorthand critique...

Claude maker Anthropic has added another heavyweight operator to its infrastructure push, hiring longtime Microsoft Azure AI leader Eric Boyd to run its infrastructure team at a moment when scale, reliability, and enterprise readiness are becoming the real battlegrounds in frontier AI. Boyd, who...

Anthropic’s Claude has moved from niche research lab curiosity to a central — and contested — player in the AI arms race: a family of large language models built around a novel “Constitutional AI” approach, widely adopted by enterprises and reportedly tapped by U.S. defense contractors during a...

Microsoft’s announcement that Anthropic’s Claude models are now available in Microsoft Foundry marks a major expansion of Azure’s model catalog and a strategic shift in how enterprises will source frontier AI inside Microsoft’s ecosystem. The integration makes Claude Sonnet 4.5, Claude Opus 4.1...

Anthropic has placed Claude directly inside Microsoft Excel with a limited research preview — a sidebar add‑in that can read, edit, and explain spreadsheet changes at the cell level while connecting to licensed market data and prebuilt financial “Agent Skills,” setting up a direct product‑level...

Microsoft has added Anthropic’s Claude family to Microsoft Foundry, making Claude Sonnet 4.5, Claude Opus 4.1 and Claude Haiku 4.5 available to Azure customers and embedding Claude as the reasoning core inside the Foundry Agent Service — a move presented by Microsoft as widening enterprise model...

Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Anthropic announced a three‑way strategic alliance that will place Anthropic’s Claude models deeply into Microsoft Azure while pairing Anthropic with NVIDIA hardware and engineering support — a deal that includes a reported $30 billion Azure compute commitment by Anthropic...

Microsoft, Nvidia and Anthropic today announced a sweeping, multibillion-dollar alliance that remaps who builds, powers and sells the large language models shaping enterprise AI — a deal that reportedly includes up to $10 billion in Nvidia commitments, up to $5 billion from Microsoft, and a $30...

Microsoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic have announced a triangular strategic partnership that ties deep infrastructure commitments to product distribution and co‑engineering — Anthropic says it will purchase roughly US$30 billion of Azure compute capacity and “contract additional compute capacity up to...

Anthropic’s Claude platform now supports a formal, developer-focused extension system called Skills, a modular capability layer that lets teams package instruction sets, scripts, and resources into self-contained units Claude can load and execute on demand. Announced as an Agent Skills beta in...

Microsoft customers will soon find Anthropic’s Claude AI embedded more deeply into workplace workflows — able to read and reason over Outlook threads, comb SharePoint and OneDrive libraries, and search Teams conversations — after Anthropic released a Microsoft 365 connector that links Claude to...

Anthropic’s Claude can now reach into Microsoft 365 — reading Outlook threads, pulling files from OneDrive and SharePoint, and answering questions that require real-time workplace context — after the company released a Microsoft 365 connector that links Claude to Teams, Outlook, OneDrive and...

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...

Microsoft quietly turned Microsoft 365 Copilot from a single‑vendor assistant into a multi‑model orchestration platform by adding Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 as selectable back‑ends in Copilot’s Researcher agent and Copilot Studio, while making clear that OpenAI models will...

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...

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...

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...