2025-03-08
Microsoft's new agents, Anthropic's $3.5 billion, and a new startup: This week's AI launches
Each week, Quartz rounds up product launches, updates, and funding news from artificial intelligence-focused startups and companies.
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2025-10-15
Anthropic is giving away its powerful Claude Haiku 4.5 AI for free to take on OpenAI
Anthropic released Claude Haiku 4.5 on Wednesday, a smaller and significantly cheaper artificial intelligence model that matches the coding capabilities of systems that were considered cutting-edge ju [...]
2025-10-27
Anthropic rolls out Claude AI for finance, integrates with Excel to rival Microsoft Copilot
Anthropic is making its most aggressive push yet into the trillion-dollar financial services industry, unveiling a suite of tools that embed its Claude AI assistant directly into Microsoft Excel and c [...]
2025-10-16
How Anthropic’s ‘Skills’ make Claude faster, cheaper, and more consistent for business workflows
Anthropic launched a new capability on Thursday that allows its Claude AI assistant to tap into specialized expertise on demand, marking the company's latest effort to make artificial intelligenc [...]
2025-10-16
Microsoft launches 'Hey Copilot' voice assistant and autonomous agents for all Windows 11 PCs
Microsoft is fundamentally reimagining how people interact with their computers, announcing Thursday a sweeping transformation of Windows 11 that brings voice-activated AI assistants, autonomous softw [...]
2025-10-28
Microsoft’s Copilot can now build apps and automate your job — here’s how it works
Microsoft is launching a significant expansion of its Copilot AI assistant on Tuesday, introducing tools that let employees build applications, automate workflows, and create specialized AI agents usi [...]
2025-01-22
Google is investing another billion dollars in Anthropic
Google has decided to invest another billion into Anthropic, four sources told the Financial Times, bringing its total sunk cost to more than three billion dollars. Both companies have declined to com [...]
2025-10-14
Visa just launched a protocol to secure the AI shopping boom — here’s what it means for merchants
Visa is introducing a new security framework designed to solve one of the thorniest problems emerging in artificial intelligence-powered commerce: how retailers can tell the difference between legitim [...]
2025-10-28
GitHub's Agent HQ aims to solve enterprises' biggest AI coding problem: Too many agents, no central control
GitHub is making a bold bet that enterprises don't need another proprietary coding agent. They need a way to manage all of them.At its Universe 2025 conference, the Microsoft-owned developer plat [...]
2025-10-29
The missing data link in enterprise AI: Why agents need streaming context, not just better prompts
Enterprise AI agents today face a fundamental timing problem: They can't easily act on critical business events because they aren't always aware of them in real-time.The challenge is infrast [...]