Microsoft opens Copilot to Claude

PLUS: Cloudflare’s new dollar for AI agents and Developer AI use soars, but trust lags

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September 26, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes

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Microsoft is expanding its AI arsenal, bringing a major competitor into its own products. For the first time, users of Microsoft 365 Copilot can now choose between OpenAI's models and Anthropic's Claude.

This move delivers on Microsoft's strategy of providing maximum choice for different tasks. But with Claude running on Anthropic's servers, will enterprises be willing to trade data control for the flexibility of a multi-model ecosystem?

Today in AI:

  • Microsoft opens Copilot to Claude

  • Cloudflare’s new dollar for AI agents

  • Developer AI use soars, but trust lags

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What’s new? In a significant expansion of its AI offerings, Microsoft announced that Anthropic's Claude models are now available within Microsoft 365 Copilot, allowing users to choose between OpenAI and Claude models for the first time.

What matters?

  • The integration gives users new model choice directly within tools like the Researcher agent and Copilot Studio, enabling them to switch between OpenAI's models and Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4 and Opus 4.1.

  • A key detail for enterprises is that because Claude runs on Anthropic’s servers, user data leaves Microsoft's ecosystem, requiring companies to explicitly opt-in through their admin center.

  • Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman, emphasized the need for maximum optionality by providing different models for different tasks.

Why it matters?

This move signals the beginning of a multi-model ecosystem inside mainstream productivity software, ending the era of a single default AI. It empowers professionals to select the best AI for a specific task, increasing flexibility and overall effectiveness.

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What’s new? Cloudflare has announced NET Dollar, a new U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin designed to power a new pay-per-use business model for the internet. It aims to provide the financial rails for autonomous AI agents to perform secure, instant transactions on a global scale.

What matters?

  • NET Dollar aims to solve a core challenge for the agentic web by enabling instant, programmatic payments that current financial systems struggle with.

  • The system supports a shift toward a pay-per-use business model, allowing developers to monetize APIs and creators to get paid for original content through microtransactions.

  • To promote interoperability, Cloudflare is also contributing to open standards like the Agent Payments Protocol, which simplifies how agents send and receive payments online.

Why it matters?

This move provides the financial plumbing necessary for AI agents to transition from performing simple tasks to executing complex, real-world transactions. It represents a foundational step towards an internet where autonomous systems can securely and instantly exchange value.

What’s new? Google’s latest DORA report reveals that while AI tool adoption has surged to 90% among developers, a significant trust gap remains, with 30% expressing little to no confidence in AI-generated outputs.

What matters?

  • Despite dedicating roughly two hours per day to AI assistants, nearly one-third of developers report little to no trust in the code they produce.

  • The trade-off appears worthwhile, as 80% of developers report enhanced efficiency and 59% see tangible improvements in their code quality.

  • To help teams navigate this, Google introduced the DORA AI Capabilities Model, a framework with seven practices designed to maximize AI benefits effectively.

Why it matters?

This 'trust but verify' mindset is becoming the standard for how skilled professionals use AI tools. It signals that AI is evolving into an essential productivity multiplier that augments, rather than replaces, human judgment and final quality control.

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Google released Mixboard, an experimental canvas from Google Labs designed to help users brainstorm and visualize ideas using a combination of text, images, and AI-powered suggestions.

Alibaba unveiled Qwen3-VL, its new state-of-the-art open-source vision-language model, which claims top performance on a wide range of multimodal benchmarks.

Manus reported a 15% performance leap for its autonomous AI agent on long-horizon tasks, attributing the gain to the new Gemini 2.5 Flash model's speed and intelligence.

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