Slack’s Slackbot has graduated from a handy workplace helper to a full‑fledged, context‑aware AI assistant that can draft content, schedule meetings and surface files from connected apps; BlackRock and a consortium of strategic partners have placed a multi‑billion‑dollar bet on AI data‑center...
Microsoft is moving aggressively to make Windows 11 an "AI‑native" operating system—integrating voice, vision, and agentic automation into the very fabric of the platform so that Copilot is no longer an optional overlay but a persistent, permissioned companion on millions of PCs. Microsoft’s...
Microsoft’s Copilot has taken a decisive step from single‑vendor convenience to deliberate multi‑model choice: Anthropic’s Claude models are now selectable inside Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio, letting organizations route Researcher sessions and custom agents to Claude Sonnet 4 and...
Almirall’s R&D teams can now find the right experiment, protocol, or historical result in seconds instead of hours or days — a leap made possible by combining Azure OpenAI in Foundry Models, Azure AI Search, and Azure Databricks to index and query some 400,000 documents spanning more than 50...
Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry now lists xAI’s Grok 4 Fast SKUs—grok-4-fast-reasoning and grok-4-fast-non-reasoning—giving enterprises an on‑platform path to run Grok’s long‑context, tool‑enabled models with Azure’s governance, enterprise SLAs, and integration surface.
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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 has quietly but decisively retooled the architecture of Microsoft 365 Copilot: Anthropic’s Claude family — specifically Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 — is now a selectable backend inside key Copilot surfaces, giving organizations real model choice inside Researcher and Copilot...
Microsoft's Copilot has quietly widened its model menu: users can now run Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 inside Copilot’s Researcher agent and as selectable models in Copilot Studio, giving organizations a straightforward way to compare OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft’s own...
Microsoft has quietly re-engineered Copilot’s product story from «single‑vendor shortcut» into a deliberate multi‑model orchestration platform by adding Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 as selectable engines inside Microsoft 365 Copilot’s Researcher feature and in Copilot Studio’s...
Microsoft’s Copilot has taken a decisive step away from single‑vendor dependency by adding Anthropic’s Claude models — notably Claude Opus 4.1 and Claude Sonnet 4 — as selectable backends inside Microsoft 365 Copilot’s Researcher feature and the Copilot Studio agent‑builder, a change Microsoft...
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Microsoft has turned Microsoft 365 Copilot from a single‑vendor assistant into a true multi‑model orchestration platform by adding Anthropic’s Claude models — notably Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 — as selectable backends in Copilot’s Researcher agent and Copilot Studio, a move delivered...
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...
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Microsoft has quietly made a strategic pivot in how Copilot delivers AI: Anthropic’s Claude models — Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 — are now selectable backends inside Microsoft Copilot Studio and the Researcher agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot, giving enterprises explicit model choice and...
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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Microsoft’s decision to fold Anthropic’s Claude models into Microsoft 365 Copilot represents a strategic inflection point: Copilot is now explicitly being engineered as a multi‑model, workload‑aware assistant rather than the single‑vendor product it began as, a shift motivated by performance...
Microsoft’s Copilot is no longer a promise — it’s a practical program CEOs, CIOs and IT leaders must plan for if they want AI to deliver measurable business value rather than become an expensive experiment.
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Microsoft has expanded “Copilot” from a single assistant into a broad family...
Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code has folded Anthropic’s Claude 4 into its Copilot toolkit, and the result is a turning point for AI-assisted development: auto model selection in VS Code will now choose Claude Sonnet 4 as the primary backend for many paid Copilot users, while Anthropic’s Claude...
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Title: Microsoft puts Grok 4 behind a gate: What Azure and Windows admins need to know right now
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Microsoft is not broadly launching xAI’s Grok 4 on Azure AI Foundry. Instead, the model is entering a limited, invite-only private preview while Microsoft continues safety and red-team...
The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) within enterprises has brought both transformative opportunities and sobering security concerns to the fore. As organizations seek to jumpstart productivity through AI-driven automation and workflows, the proliferation of both sanctioned and...