Microsoft will slacken its dependence on OpenAI through a new partnership with Anthropic, The Information on Tuesday. The deal will enable Microsoft to embed Anthropic's AI systems into Microsoft 365 formerly Office platforms like Excel, PowerPoint, and Word. Also: AI's free web scraping days may be over, thanks to this new licensing protocol This marks a turning point for Microsoft, which has otherwise been largely though not entirely reliant on OpenAI's technology to power its...
