Microsoft Collaborates with Anthropic to Launch Copilot Cowork – DTH

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2:05Microsoft announced a collaboration with Anthropic to bring the tech behind Claude co-work into Microsoft 365 co-pilot. Aimed at Enterprise customers, co-work runs in a sandbox cloud environment within Microsoft 365 governance boundaries and actions and outputs are auditable. In a blog post, Microsoft President of Business Apps and Agents, Charles Lamanna, shared that co-work will check in if any clarifications are required and changes can be approved before applied. Co-pilot co-work is currently in limited testing with customers in the research preview program and is expected to become more widely available in the Frontier program in late March 2026. On Monday, Anthropic filed a lawsuit in federal court in California to block the Pentagon from adding the company to the National Security Blacklist. The suit claims the designation is unlawful and violates both due process and free speech rights. Last week, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared Anthropic a security supply

3:07chain risk over the company's decision to keep guardrails against using AI for domestic surveillance or autonomous weapons. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple is planning at least three new products for the high-end ultra lineup. Even if the new releases don't explicitly feature the ultra naming convention, the products will still have a premium cost. For example, the foldable iPhone expected to cost around $2,000 by end up being called something simple like fold instead of including ultra in the name. Gurman also states AirPods Ultra is a naming consideration for next-gen AirPods featuring cameras to provide visual data to Siri. Apple is also exploring a new aluminum manufacturing process to save as much metal as possible, lowering costs while also speeding up production. Apple is working on 3D printing aluminum for future Apple Watch casings and, according to Mark Gurman, potentially also for future iPhone enclosures.

4:08Previously, Apple used 3D printed titanium in the Apple Watch Ultra 3. An AI is reportedly pushing back the launch of chat GPT's adult mode, again, and open AI spokesperson told Alex Heath, quote, we're pushing out the launch of adult mode so we can focus on work that is a higher priority for more users right now, and an adult mode would, quote, take more time. These spokesperson said features like personality improvements and designing more proactive experiences are among the current priorities. In October 2025, CEO Sam Altman posted on X, the mode would be available in December, but then said in a December briefing that it would instead launch in Q1, 2026. No new projected launch dates have been announced. Electronic's manufacturer Vizio, now a Walmart private label brand since being acquired in 2024, is merging the previous Vizio account system with Walmarts. During the setup process for any new Vizio Smart TVs, users will be offered the option

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