Prates FYI

Anthropic

Anthropic upgrades Claude with new Opus 4.8 model, here's what's new

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8, bringing stronger benchmark performance, improved reasoning, and enhanced collaboration capabilities over its predecessor. The launch introduces effort control on claude.ai—letting users dial in how hard Claude works on a task—and dynamic workflows in Claude Code for tackling large-scale engineering problems. API access is available immediately at the same price points as Opus 4.7.

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OpenAI

The next phase of enterprise AI

OpenAI launched a new $4 billion enterprise deployment company in partnership with 19 global investment firms, consultancies, and system integrators to accelerate large-scale AI adoption. The initiative moves OpenAI beyond its API-first model toward hands-on engagement: helping enterprises identify high-impact use cases and redesign critical workflows around AI. OpenAI framed the move as a necessary step to translate individual AI productivity gains into organization-wide outcomes.

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OpenAI

Building the compute infrastructure for the Intelligence Age

OpenAI published a detailed overview of its compute infrastructure strategy, outlining how it plans to scale training and inference capacity to support increasingly capable AI systems. The post identifies compute, energy, and software stack as the three critical bottlenecks and details partnerships and proprietary investments being made at each layer. OpenAI frames this build-out as foundational to what it calls the "Intelligence Age."

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Microsoft

Introducing a new design for Microsoft 365 Copilot

Microsoft redesigned Microsoft 365 Copilot, transforming its static prompt bar into a task-aware workspace that adapts to the user's current activity across Word, Excel, Teams, and Outlook. The new interface positions Copilot as a more proactive assistant rather than a passive question-answering box, with tighter integration into document and meeting workflows. The redesign is rolling out to commercial Microsoft 365 subscribers immediately.

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Microsoft

What's new in Copilot Studio: new and improved computer-using agents, a new Workflows experience, and real-time voice

Microsoft's May 2026 Copilot Studio update makes computer-using agents generally available, adds a redesigned Workflows experience for enterprise orchestration, and introduces real-time voice interactions for customer-facing agents. The release also includes new governance capabilities—multi-agent management, audit logs, and scoped secrets—marking a shift from low-code chatbot builder to a production-grade enterprise agent platform. The update is available to Copilot Studio customers now.

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