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  1. Oracle's AI Infrastructure Push Rewrites the Cloud Playbook

    Oracle’s latest quarter didn’t just surprise the market — it rewrote the playbook for what a legacy enterprise software company can become in an AI-first world. (investor.oracle.com) Background For two decades Oracle was best known as a database and enterprise-software stalwart slowly adapting...
  2. Critterz: OpenAI‑Backed AI Animation Aims for Cannes

    OpenAI’s backing of a feature-length, largely AI-created animated film called Critterz has jolted the animation world: the project — expanding a 2023 AI-made short into a Cannes-bound feature — explicitly uses OpenAI tools (including GPT-5 and the Sora video model) and a dramatically reduced...
  3. Try Open-Weight AI on Windows: Duck.ai Brings gpt-oss 120B Privately

    DuckDuckGo’s Duck.ai giving users a free, anonymous window onto large open-weight models is a small but significant step in the evolving landscape of accessible generative AI — and it’s turned the question of “how to try big models without a GPU farm” into a practical reality for many Windows...
  4. Microsoft licenses Claude Sonnet 4 in 365 Copilot, signaling a multi-model AI strategy

    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...
  5. Microsoft’s Copilot Goes Multi-Model with Claude Sonnet 4 via AWS Bedrock

    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...
  6. Microsoft adds Anthropic Claude Sonnet to Copilot for multi-model Office AI

    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...
  7. Microsoft Copilot Goes Multi-Model with Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4 in Office 365

    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...
  8. Microsoft adds Anthropic Sonnet 4 to Copilot: a multi-model, cross-cloud Office 365

    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...
  9. Microsoft 365 Copilot to Mix Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4 with OpenAI Models

    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...
  10. Microsoft Taps Anthropic Claude, Builds Multi-Vendor Copilot for Office 365

    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...
  11. Microsoft Expands Office 365 AI with Anthropic Models, Diversifying Copilot

    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...
  12. Microsoft Expands Copilot with Claude Sonnet 4: A Multi-Model AI Strategy

    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...
  13. OpenAI Jobs Platform & Certifications: AI Skills in Hiring

    OpenAI's announcement that it will build an AI-powered jobs platform and a linked certification program marks a decisive expansion from conversational agents into workforce services — an initiative that could directly challenge Microsoft-owned LinkedIn, reshape hiring economics, and accelerate...
  14. AI on the NFL Sideline: Copilot, Governance, and the Lynch Call

    Artificial intelligence would have told Pete Carroll to hand the ball to Marshawn Lynch. The verdict — blunt, repeatable and nearly universal among modern analysts — is now being echoed by the same generative models that pundits and teams are experimenting with at the edge of NFL operations. Yet...
  15. OpenAI's Open-Weight GPT-OSS Reshapes Microsoft Partnership and Multi-Cloud

    OpenAI’s decision to publish high‑quality, open‑weight language models has suddenly reframed its relationship with Microsoft — shifting what until recently felt like a settled strategic partnership into a contested terrain of contracts, cloud economics, and platform control. The company’s...
  16. Microsoft's AI-Driven Azure and Windows 11: Building the AI Platform and Cloud Flywheel

    Microsoft’s recent narrative — that an AI-first Azure is building an unassailable moat while Windows 11 becomes an “AI platform” — is both materially true and rhetorically optimistic; the data underpinning the claim is strong, but the timeline and some headline figures in the popular bull case...
  17. Microsoft unveils MAI: In-house AI models reshape Copilot and Azure economics

    Microsoft’s announcement that it has launched its own in-house AI models represents a strategic turning point: the company is no longer just a primary host and commercial partner for OpenAI — it is actively building the foundation for an independent, vertically integrated AI stack that could...
  18. AI Chatbots Repeating Falsehoods 35% of News Replies (Aug 2025 Audit)

    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. (newsguardtech.com)...
  19. White House AI Education Initiative: Tech Giants Pledge for an AI-Ready Generation

    Silicon Valley’s top executives converged at the White House on September 4, 2025, to publicly endorse the First Lady’s AI education initiative — a high-profile meeting that fused corporate pledges, government policy ambitions, and the politics of technology into a single, consequential moment...
  20. Microsoft's MAI: Orchestrating a Multi-Model AI Stack for Copilot and Azure

    Microsoft’s decision to unveil its first in-house foundation models — MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview — marks a deliberate strategic shift: Microsoft is moving from an AI product strategy that leaned heavily on OpenAI’s frontier models toward an orchestrated, multi‑model architecture that blends...