Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses
Microsoft first started opening up access to Claude Code in December, inviting thousands of its own developers to use Anthropic’s AI coding tool daily. …
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Here’s how the new Microsoft and OpenAI deal breaks down
… OpenAI eventually backed down on its Windsurf acquisition plans, but sources at Microsoft tell me it led to months of tense negotiations over OpenAI’s controversial for-profit restructuring last year. …
Inside the return of Xbox
… This week the famed 2019 contract between Microsoft and OpenAI was made public, and the 36-page document defines artificial general intelligence as “a highly autonomous system that outperforms humans at most economically valuable work.” This matches OpenAI’s public definition, too. …
Labor and worker’s rights in tech
… Now he’s going public Lauren Feiner Apr 2 Emma Roth Mar 31 Oracle is reportedly laying off thousands of workers. The cloud giant has started notifying workers of the cuts, which are in the “thousands,” sources tell CNBC. …
Inside Microsoft’s wave of executive departures
… Chik had been the president of identity and network access at Microsoft, and she’s now launching a new podcast and focusing more on company board work and helping startup founders. …
Larry Ellison’s betting everything on OpenAI. Will it pay off or pop the bubble?
… If and when the mandatory paperwork associated with an IPO filing is made public, we’ll get a sense of exactly how challenging the environment is for OpenAI — but it seems that OpenAI doesn’t have an easy road to do everything it’s trying to do and still stay solvent. …
After three months on Linux, I don’t miss Windows at all
… Several readers pointed me to Zen, which is basically Arc but open-source and built on Firefox, and it is indeed good enough. …
CEO Melanie Perkins explains Canva’s big pivot to AI
… There’s a sense that there’s a lot of opportunity in the disparate data sources in a company and you can bring them together to platform and then take action on it and achieve some results. Is Canva the right tool to do that work? …