Anthropic's new dreaming feature lets Claude Managed Agents review their own sessions, extract patterns, and improve over time while using less memory. Developers can control whether updates are automatic or reviewed by humans.
In court, OpenAI president Greg Brockman revealed that Elon Musk demanded 51% control of the startup to fund a Mars city — and stormed out when they refused.
Microsoft's Q3 earnings beat estimates with Azure growing 40% and AI revenue soaring 123%. The company reported $82.9B in revenue and $31.8B in net income.
Microsoft's Azure growth rebounded to 40% in Q3, proving the slowdown was a capacity issue, not a demand problem. Meanwhile, the company raised its full-year capex forecast to $190 billion.
OpenAI is expanding its partnership with AWS, bringing GPT-5.5, Codex, and Managed Agents to Amazon Bedrock in limited preview—a move that lets AWS-native customers access OpenAI models without leaving their cloud environment.
Microsoft's VibeVoice-ASR model can process up to 60 minutes of continuous audio with speaker diarization in a single pass, but running it locally requires a machine with at least 64GB of RAM.
Microsoft and OpenAI have loosened their exclusive deal, letting OpenAI host models on rival clouds like AWS while keeping Azure first. The non-exclusive license and revised revenue terms mark a major shift from the previous structure.
AI startups are reporting that cloud providers like Microsoft and Amazon are prioritizing internal teams and big clients, leaving smaller companies facing price hikes, long wait times, and tougher contract terms.
Microsoft's new hosted agents platform gives AI developers VM-level isolation, persistent storage, and a billing model that doesn't charge when agents are idle.
Microsoft's Copilot Agent Mode is now the default in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, letting AI handle multi-step tasks with a single instruction.
