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Applied AI

Can Microsoft Help Customers Cut Back on Claude?

By Aaron Holmes · Oct 6, 2026 10:33am PDT
There was good news and bad news for Anthropic in our story yesterday that showed how two of its mega-customers, Microsoft and Meta, were cutting their staffs’ Claude bills.Among the bad news was that Microsoft had reduced its spending on Claude by more than 33% from its peak of over $1 billion, on an annualized basis, earlier this year. ... There was good news and bad news for Anthropic in our story yesterday that showed how two of its...
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AI Agenda

How AWS Can Move the Needle in AI; 2025’s AI Books

By Anissa Gardizy · Dec 3, 2024 7:00am PST
Amazon Web Services’ annual conference for customers kicks off this morning with products AWS Chief Matt Garman said would be “needle-moving.” But what happened to the products unveiled by AWS at last year’s re:Invent?A year ago, Garman’s predecessor, Adam Selipsky, tried to make a splash by unveiling an artificial intelligence chatbot and... Amazon Web Services’ annual conference for customers kicks off this morning with products AWS...
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AI Agenda

With Adept Deal, Amazon Copies Microsoft; Do Businesses Really Need GPT-5?

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Jul 1, 2024 7:00am PDT · 6 comments
I never thought I’d say this about a nearly 50-year-old company, but Microsoft is turning out to be a trendsetter.First, Microsoft’s $10 billion investment and partnership with OpenAI early last year prompted rival cloud providers to team up with conversational artificial intelligence developers—namely, Amazon Web Services’ similar pact with ... I never thought I’d say this about a nearly 50-year-old company, but Microsoft is turning out to...
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Applied AI

New Microsoft Copilot Security Flaws Show How AI Can Leak Customer Secrets

By Aaron Holmes · Jul 30, 2026 11:57am PDT
Cybersecurity is top of mind for many businesses following the remarkable hack of Hugging Face earlier this month. And rightly so. The problem they now face is that many of the AI firms selling tools to find and patch vulnerabilities are themselves vulnerable to security problems.The latest is Microsoft’s Copilot AI features for Office 365,... Cybersecurity is top of mind for many businesses following the remarkable hack of Hugging Face...
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Applied AI

More Changes Coming to Microsoft and Google’s Productivity Apps: Grammarly CEO

By Jon Victor and Kevin McLaughlin · Jan 21, 2025 10:00am PST
Microsoft and Google’s injection of generative artificial intelligence features into apps like Docs and Word is just the start of a dramatic shift for enterprise apps in the coming years, says Shishir Mehrotra, CEO of Grammarly, which develops writing assistant software.Instead of a chatbot like Google’s Gemini or Microsoft’s Copilot that... Microsoft and Google’s injection of generative artificial intelligence features into apps like...