OpenAI and Anthropic slash prices as Chinese AI rivals close the gap
OpenAI and Anthropic are slashing prices on their mid-tier AI models as cheaper Chinese alternatives gain traction among cost-conscious businesses and developers. The price cuts mark a shift from competing purely on model performance to competing on cost, with Chinese labs like DeepSeek and Moonshot forcing the market down. OpenAI cut prices on GPT-5.6 Luna, […]
Anthropic starts watermarking Claude text using DeepMind’s SynthID
Anthropic has started rolling out invisible watermarks on text generated by its Claude models, joining Google and OpenAI in deploying content provenance technology ahead of the EU AI Act’s transparency requirements. The watermarking, which uses Google DeepMind’s SynthID-Text approach, is designed to travel with text when it is copied and pasted, surviving basic edits. The […]
Claude Opus 5 Is Now Generally Available on Azure Databricks
Anthropic’s flagship model has landed in the enterprise data stack. Claude Opus 5 is now generally available on Azure Databricks through AI Model Serving, giving teams a managed path to Anthropic’s top-tier reasoning and agentic model without leaving the Databricks platform they already run their data workloads on. For organizations that have been building on […]
Fake Claude app on Bing ads delivers SectopRAT malware
How the attack works A malvertising campaign on Bing is pushing a fake Claude desktop app installer that delivers SectopRAT, a .NET-based remote access trojan. The campaign, tracked by researchers as FakeAgent, has been active since at least April 2026 and has compromised 29 organizations so far, according to Huntress and IT Security Guru reports. […]
Code generation connectors land in Microsoft Agent Framework
Microsoft Agent Framework, the open source orchestration library for building multi-agent AI systems, now ships generally available connectors for GitHub Copilot and Claude Code. The connectors let .NET and Python agents delegate coding tasks to either system without writing custom adapter code. The project has grown to 12,300 stars on GitHub with 2,100 forks and […]
GitHub Copilot and Claude Code connectors now generally available in Microsoft Agent Framework
Microsoft has shipped generally available connectors for GitHub Copilot and Claude Code in the Microsoft Agent Framework, letting developers build .NET and Python agents that delegate coding tasks to either system without writing custom adapter code. The connectors plug into the Agent Framework’s standard tool-use pipeline, so agents can call out to Copilot or Claude […]
Microsoft Agent Framework Adds GitHub Copilot and Claude Code Connectors
Microsoft released generally available connectors for GitHub Copilot and Claude Code in the Microsoft Agent Framework this week. The connectors let .NET and Python agents delegate coding tasks to either system through a standard tool interface, without writing custom adapter code for each backend. This is one of those releases that sounds small on paper […]
Claude Sonnet 5 Now GA on Azure Databricks: Near-Opus Intelligence at Sonnet Prices
Claude Sonnet 5 Now GA on Azure Databricks: Near-Opus Intelligence at Sonnet Prices Azure Databricks has made Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 generally available through its AI Model Serving platform (source). It is Anthropic’s most agentic Sonnet model to date, delivering near-Opus-level intelligence with Sonnet’s cost efficiency and speed. For teams running production AI workloads on […]
Claude Fable 5 Lands in Microsoft Foundry, and It Actually Works Autonomously
Anthropic dropped Claude Fable 5 on June 9, 2026, and it is already live inside Microsoft Foundry. That means Azure developers can now call a frontier-grade, long-horizon reasoning model through the same enterprise fabric they already use for OpenAI models, internal deployments, and agent orchestration. No separate vendor contract. No custom integration layer. What is […]