Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5 on July 24, 2026, offering near-Fable-5 intelligence at $5 per million input tokens, half the cost of Fable 5's $10, and beating Fable 5 on most benchmarks including S…
A developer benchmarked cross-cloud Agent-to-Agent (A2A) interoperability between Microsoft Foundry on Azure and Google ADK on Cloud Run, measuring latency and accuracy of a currency conversion agent.…
The Premier League and Microsoft have launched the Fantasy Premier League Companion powered by Copilot, built with Microsoft Foundry, Azure OpenAI, and ChatGPT 5.4, to help managers make informed deci…
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on July 27, 2026, offering frontier intelligence at half the cost of Claude Fable 5 while maintaining the same token rates as Claude Opus 4.8—$5 per million input toke…
Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI Search, and Azure Cosmos DB are combined to build a grounded search agent that uses function calling to route between unstructured document retrieval and structured data qu…
Anthropic's Claude Code stores local context history on a user's device and deletes it after 30 days. Consumer users on Free, Pro, and Max plans can opt in to allow their data to improve future Claude…
Anthropic on July 24 released Claude Opus 5, a frontier AI model that tops the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with 61 points while costing roughly half as much per task as the company's own Fa…
Microsoft has opened public previews of MAI-Image-2.5-Pro and MAI-Voice-2-Flash, expanding its in-house AI model family with one option tuned for maximum visual fidelity and another designed for high-…
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on July 24, calling it a step-change improvement over Opus 4.8. The model approaches Fable 5 intelligence at roughly half the price, with a 1M token context window and…
Anthropic on Thursday released Claude Opus 5, a model that matches or exceeds its flagship Fable 5 on most coding and knowledge-work benchmarks at half the token price, costing $5 per million input to…
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5, a step-change improvement over Claude Opus 4.8 with gains in deep reasoning, agentic tasks, and test-time compute scaling, featuring thinking on by default, a 1M toke…
AMD unveiled OTel 2.0, an open-source AI model for telecom operators co-developed with AT&T and Microsoft, and AT&T has already processed over one trillion tokens on AMD Instinct GPUs via Microsoft Fo…
Microsoft is helping three nonprofits—Animal Protection Denmark, Answer ALS, and Everything Suarve—use AI to extend their impact. Animal Protection Denmark uses AI to forecast foster home demand durin…
Microsoft has released the Agent Framework Harness, a stable, batteries-included runtime for building agents in Python and .NET that provides loop, planning, memory, context management, approvals, and…
At Advancing AI 2026, AMD, AT&T, and Microsoft announced OTel 2.0, an open-source model trained specifically for telecoms, with AT&T processing more than 1 trillion tokens through managed compute in M…
GitHub Copilot and raw API access serve different needs: Copilot bundles development tooling—editor, repository, terminal, and organization policy integrations—with model access, while raw APIs are fo…
Microsoft and Mistral AI announced a multi-billion-dollar agreement for Microsoft to rent AI computing capacity from Mistral's European data centers in France and Sweden, giving Azure customers a Euro…
Manulife and Microsoft renewed and expanded their partnership under a five-year agreement announced July 22, with Manulife adopting Microsoft 365 E7 Frontier Suite, deploying Agent 365 as an enterpris…
Microsoft and Mistral are expanding their partnership to bring Mistral's frontier AI models across Azure, Microsoft Foundry, Copilot Studio, and Azure Local, aiming to offer customers more choice and …
Microsoft will invest billions in new AI computing capacity inside Mistral to serve sovereign AI customers in Europe and add Mistral's OCR 4.0 and Medium 3.5 models to its platforms, the companies ann…