Anthropic has upgraded its Claude AI model with new capabilities for Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, marking a strategic move to expand its enterprise footprint and potentially challenging Microsoft’s newly launched Copilot Cowork — which Claude also partially powers. 

It’s always the same story: A new technology appears and everyone starts talking about how it’ll change everything. Then capital rushes in, companies form overnight, and valuations climb faster than anyone can justify. Then, many many months later, the warnings arrive, and people suddenly remember the dot-com crash or crypto.

It’s always the same story: A new technology appears and everyone starts talking about how it’ll change everything. Then capital rushes in, companies form overnight, and valuations climb faster than anyone can justify. Then, many many months later, the warnings arrive, and people suddenly remember the dot-com crash or crypto.

The past ten days have been among the most consequential in OpenAI's history, with developments stacking up across product, politics, personnel, and the courts. Here is what happened — and what it means.

The convergence of a major product launch, a federal legal battle, and a landmark distribution deal with the world's largest software company captures the extraordinary tension defining Anthropic's current moment. The San Francisco-based AI lab is simultaneously trying to grow a developer tools business approaching $2.5 billion in annualized revenue, defend itself against an unprecedented government designation as a national security threat, and expand its commercial footprint through the very cloud platforms now navigating the fallout.

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Multi-agent systems, designed to handle long-horizon tasks like software engineering or cybersecurity triaging, can generate up to 15 times the token volume of standard chats — threatening their cost-effectiveness in handling enterprise tasks.

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