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Microsoft Copilot

productactiveprovisionalmicrosoft-copilot-21f0c210·5 events·first seen 21d ago

Aliases: Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Copilot Studio

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6Simon Willison'S Weblog·21d ago·source ↗

Microsoft Copilot Cowork Exfiltrates Files

Simon Willison reports on a security vulnerability in Microsoft Copilot Cowork that exfiltrates files. The item appears to document a prompt injection or data exfiltration attack vector in Microsoft's AI-powered collaboration tooling. This is relevant to AI safety and enterprise deployment risks of agentic AI assistants.

7Anthropic News·15d ago·source ↗

Claude Sonnet 4.5, Haiku 4.5, and Opus 4.1 Now Available in Microsoft Foundry and Microsoft 365 Copilot

Anthropic and Microsoft are expanding their partnership to make Claude Sonnet 4.5, Haiku 4.5, and Opus 4.1 available in public preview on Microsoft Foundry, enabling Azure customers to build production applications and enterprise agents using existing Azure agreements and billing. Claude is also being integrated into Microsoft 365 Copilot's Agent Mode in Excel, allowing users to generate formulas, analyze data, and iterate on spreadsheet solutions. The Foundry integration supports serverless deployment with Python, TypeScript, and C# SDKs, and includes capabilities such as code execution, web search, citations, vision, and prompt caching. This partnership reduces procurement friction for enterprises already invested in the Microsoft ecosystem.

9Anthropic News·15d ago·source ↗

Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Anthropic Announce Major Strategic Partnerships with $15B Investment and $30B Azure Compute Commitment

Anthropic has announced simultaneous strategic partnerships with Microsoft and NVIDIA, committing to purchase $30 billion of Azure compute capacity and up to one gigawatt of compute with NVIDIA Grace Blackwell and Vera Rubin systems. NVIDIA and Microsoft are investing up to $10 billion and $5 billion respectively in Anthropic, while Claude models (Sonnet 4.5, Opus 4.1, Haiku 4.5) will be available on Microsoft Foundry and across the Copilot product family. Anthropic and NVIDIA are also establishing a deep technology partnership to co-optimize model performance and future NVIDIA architectures for Anthropic workloads. Amazon remains Anthropic's primary cloud and training partner.

6Anthropic News·15d ago·source ↗

Anthropic Expands Claude for Financial Services with Excel Add-in, New Connectors, and Agent Skills

Anthropic is expanding its Claude for Financial Services offering with a beta Excel add-in (Claude for Excel), seven new real-time data connectors (including LSEG, Moody's, Aiera, and Chronograph), and six new pre-built Agent Skills covering tasks like DCF modeling, comparable company analysis, and initiating coverage reports. The updates build on Claude Sonnet 4.5's performance on the Finance Agent benchmark from Vals AI, where it scored 55.3% accuracy. Claude for Excel allows users to read, analyze, modify, and create Excel workbooks directly from a sidebar, with transparency into cell-level changes. These features are rolling out in preview to Max, Enterprise, and Teams users, with Citi cited as a notable enterprise adopter.

6The Batch·14d ago·source ↗

State of Mobile 2026 Report: AI App Revenue Triples to $5B, Downloads Double to 3.8B

Sensor Tower's State of Mobile 2026 report documents explosive growth in mobile AI apps during 2025: global revenue tripled to over $5 billion and downloads doubled to 3.8 billion, with users spending 48 billion hours in AI apps — roughly 10x the 2023 figure. ChatGPT leads downloads, followed by Gemini, DeepSeek, Doubao, and Perplexity; OpenAI and DeepSeek together account for nearly 50% of global AI app downloads. Non-game app revenue exceeded gaming revenue for the first time, driven largely by AI spending. The data provides concrete evidence that AI assistant usage is becoming habitual and mainstream on mobile platforms.