This week, enterprise AI stopped being optional. Anthropic bundled its coding assistant Claude Code into every Team and Enterprise plan – at no extra cost!
Microsoft activated Copilot on every Windows 11 PC. And a $40 billion data-centre deal removed the final infrastructure bottleneck. AI is now part of the system, not a tool you choose.
"October 15th wasn’t the day AI got better. It was the day the industry removed every excuse you had for not adopting it,” Magnus Oxenwaldt says.
Top stories this week:
- AI is bundled. Anthropic added Claude Code to all enterprise plans at no extra cost – and they launched a native Microsoft 365 integration. Microsoft built Copilot directly into Windows 11 and Microsoft 365.
- Infrastructure caught up. BlackRock, NVIDIA, Microsoft and xAI sealed a $40 billion deal for 5 GW of AI data-centre capacity.
- Costs collapsed. Claude Haiku 4.5 delivers premium coding performance at one-third of the previous price.
- Platform lock-in begins. Free features today mean deep dependency tomorrow. Once you’re in, it gets difficult to switch.
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