🤝 Claude now available in Microsoft 365 Copilot 🤝
Anthropic's AI models join Microsoft's enterprise productivity platform for millions of users.

Microsoft announced that Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 are now available in Microsoft 365 Copilot, bringing Anthropic's AI models to millions of enterprise users. Claude now available in Microsoft 365 Copilot through Microsoft's Researcher agent and Copilot Studio, giving organizations model choice for specific business needs. Claude Opus 4.1 powers the Researcher agent for complex multi-step research across emails, chats, meetings, and files, while Claude Sonnet 4 enables custom enterprise agent creation in Copilot Studio. The integration launches through Microsoft's Frontier Program for licensed customers, with Anthropic models hosted outside Microsoft-managed environments.

🚀 OpenAI expands Stargate data centers 🚀
Massive AI infrastructure buildout targets $500 billion investment.

OpenAI expands Stargate data centers with Oracle and SoftBank, adding five new U.S. facilities to reach nearly 7 gigawatts total capacity. The project has already surpassed $400 billion investment and targets $500 billion with 10 GW capacity by end of 2025. Oracle develops three sites across Texas, New Mexico, and the Midwest, while SoftBank handles two facilities in Ohio and Texas. This expansion represents one of the largest AI infrastructure buildouts in history, expected to create 25,000 onsite jobs and tens of thousands more across the supply chain.

🎨 Google launches Mixboard concept board 🎨
AI-powered visual design tool transforms creative workflows through text prompts.

Google Labs unveiled Mixboard, an AI-powered concept board that transforms how designers generate and refine visual ideas. Users can create moodboards through text prompts, utilize contextual image editing tools, and generate design variations seamlessly. The platform allows building from pre-made templates or creating entirely new concepts through natural language descriptions. Google launches Mixboard concept board to compete directly with other visual AI platforms, demonstrating growing sophistication of AI tools in creative workflows that could revolutionize visual concepting and ideation processes.

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🤖 Apple adopts MCP for agentic AI 🤖

Apple prepares to adopt Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) in latest beta releases, marking a significant step toward enabling agentic AI across Mac, iPhone, and iPad platforms. MCP serves as a universal pathway allowing AI agents to interface with traditional platforms, APIs, and data sources seamlessly, enabling developers to use system-level integration and exposing app actions to AI platforms.

📊 Scale AI launches SEAL Showdown benchmark 📊

Scale AI introduced SEAL Showdown, a benchmarking platform that segments LLM performance by real user preferences across demographics, challenging LMArena's dominance. The platform leverages Scale's global network spanning 100 countries and 70 languages. Early results show Claude leads in writing, ChatGPT excels at brainstorming, and Gemini performs better with users over 50.