Microsoft showed a version of Windows in which an AI coding model and parts of Copilot run on the computer itself instead of in the cloud, and a security tool, Microsoft Execution Containers, that limits which data an AI agent can reach. It also presented…
Finance angle The finance angle is where AI work gets paid for. A model that runs on the laptop shifts spending from cloud usage to the device: Nvidia earns from the chip, Microsoft from the hardware and Windows, and the buyer pays once instead of per query. The price puts the machine against Apple's MacBook Pro, which the report…
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Anthropic released its small model Claude Haiku 5.5 on October 7 on its own platform and on Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. For requests of up to 100,000 tokens it costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output…
Finance angle The finance angle is the price of AI computing for the companies that buy it. Anthropic puts the overall cost of running a workload about 75% below Haiku 4.5, and says the Sonnet change takes roughly 20% off a typical agent task. Software companies and IT services firms that build products on these models pay less…
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According to a report by The Information, relayed by Investing.com, Microsoft had been on course to spend at least $1 billion this year on its employees' use of Anthropic's Claude and has since reduced that by more than a third, with managers steering staff…
Finance angle Two of Anthropic's largest customers are trimming a bill that ran at roughly $1 billion a year at Microsoft alone, a sign that big buyers of coding assistants are pushing back on cost and building substitutes. The report separates this from resale: spending by Microsoft's customers on Anthropic models through its…
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Microsoft reported revenue of $90.0 billion for the quarter to June 30, up 18%. Microsoft Cloud revenue was $59.3 billion, up 27%, and Azure and other cloud services revenue grew 43%; chief executive Satya Nadella said Azure revenue passed $100 billion for…
Finance angle Microsoft's $35.8 billion of quarterly additions to property and equipment, about twice the year-earlier figure, is paid to chip, server and data-centre suppliers. What it earns in return shows in the $678 billion of commercial contracts not yet recognised as revenue, up 84%, and Azure growth of 43%. Those contracted…
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