Email: Microsoft’s $2B Claude bet 💰, AI agents get passports 🛂, Workday opens up 🔓

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Microsoft’s $2B Claude bet 💰, AI agents get passports 🛂, Workday opens up 🔓
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&lt;div style="display: none; max-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"&gt;Microsoft reportedly plans to pay Anthropic over $2 billion annually to use Claude AI models within its Copilot assistant. The integration&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;

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                                    Microsoft reportedly plans to pay Anthropic over $2 billion annually to use Claude AI models within its Copilot assistant. The integration responds to client performance pressures and aims to improve output on tasks like financial automation and presentations. To manage costs, Microsoft employs an internal model router that directs some workloads to OpenAI models.
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