Microsoft-OpenAI Partnership Extended up to 2032 With Big Bet on AGI

By Chinmay Dhumal | October 28, 2025

Key Highlights: Microsoft and OpenAI have revised their long-standing partership up to 2032, gaining exclusive IP rights from each other until AGI is achieved. It also opens new doors for OpenAI to provide API access to government agencies, which was previously restricted. It also gives the Altman-led company to launch open-weight models, while allowing Microsoft to develop AGI with third parties. Both companies are now also free to explore partners outside of the partnership to develop a certain technology. Changes in the Microsoft-OpenAI Alliance Under the new partnership, Microsoft will now own a 27% stake in OpenAI’s public benefit corporation […]

You Can Now Use Claude Directly in Excel To Track Your Finances

By Chinmay Dhumal | October 27, 2025

Key Highlights: Anthropic is expanding Claude for financial services by introducing a new Excel plugin. You can now add your finance records in any sheet and use Claude directly in Excel to analyse, break down, and perform projects of all of your transactions and holdings. It can also fetch live information of stock markets, share price, and other information directly from the web. These features are aimed to make Claude as a standalone financial planner powered by AI. Claude for Excel: What is it? The Claude integration in Excel is now available as a research preview in beta. I can […]

Saudi Startup Humain Debuts Operating System Built on Arabic-First ALLAM LLM

By Arshiya Kunwar | October 27, 2025

Key Highlights – Saudi Arabia’s AI aspirations have reached an important milestone as Humain, an AI startup located in Riyadh and supported by the Public Investment Fund (PIF), launched Humain One, a next-gen operating system based on the Arabic-first ALLAM large language model. The launch, unveiled at the Saudi-U.S. Investment Forum, positions Humain as a pioneering player in conversational computing, rethinking the interaction between users and computers. The interaction, which was once through icons, menus, and clicks, now allows users to “speak their intent” directly to the computer, turning ordinary commands into smart actions. “Rather than looking at icons where […]

Chinese Open Source AI Model MiniMax-M2 Just Dropped: Here’s Why It Beats OpenAI, Anthropic

By Chinmay Dhumal | October 27, 2025

When the entire world applauds America in the AI race, thanks to OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and others, China is silently building an empire of its own. A new open-source Chinese AI model has emerged online called MiniMax-M2 that specializes in coding and agentic workflows. It also claims to be more cost effective, while offering similar, if not better performance than GPT-5, Sonnet 4.5, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and even DeepSeek. With its open-source nature, MiniMax M2 can be downloaded and run on any system, bringing access to best-in-class logical and reasoning skills for free. This is also a wakeup call for […]

How Microsoft is Taking a Page From OpenAI’s Darker Monetisation Playbook

By Chinmay Dhumal | October 27, 2025

Artificial intelligence promised to make our lives easier, not costlier. Yet, the latest controversy around Microsoft’s AI-powered Copilot subscription in Australia shows that the line between innovation and exploitation is getting blurred. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has sued Microsoft for allegedly misleading over 27 million users into paying more for its Microsoft 365 subscription with the Copilot bundle, while not advertising enough for its base tier plan without the bundle. If this dark pattern sounds familiar, that’s because OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has been on the radar for quietly laying the groundwork for ad-driven monetisation. Given […]

Meta and Reliance Announce New AI Partnership; Check Complete Details Here

By Chinmay Dhumal | October 25, 2025

Key Highlights: Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries recently set up a new AI venture called Reliance Enterprise Intelligence Limited (REIL) to develop AI technologies. Meta has now officially acquired a 30% stake in this company, making it a joint venture between the Reliance Group and Mark Zuckerberg’s entity. This plan was originally announced at the Reliance Annual General Meeting in August 2025 with the ambition of making AI accessible to all businesses in India and globally. Meta’s Investment in Reliance Enterprise Intelligence Meta and Reliance have committed a Rs 855 crore ($100 million) investment in REIL to develop and distribute enterprise […]

Claude Memory Now Available in Max Tier: Here’s Why You Need It

By Chinmay Dhumal | October 23, 2025

Key Highlights: Anthropic added a new memory feature in Claude last month, enabling users to reference older chats for new conversations. This helped to quickly resume an old topic, without having to remind the chatbot any context. However, this was only available to Team and Enterprise users. The company has now expanded the memory function to Max users, and will soon be available in the Pro tier for as low as $17. This is one the biggest updates in Claude as it transforms the way we use it with its support for long-term contextual understanding. Claude Memory: What’s The Deal? […]

Microsoft’s Copilot Fall Release: Human-Centered AI & Other Updates

By Arshiya Kunwar | October 23, 2025

Key Highlights: In a tech world full of noise and excitement, Microsoft AI is taking the optimistic and human connection route. Copilot’s Fall Release is a milestone in the journey to human-centered AI. Copilot does not want to get attention but rather to return the user’s time. It is an “AI companion,” one that thinks, plans, and dreams with you while always respecting your conditions. It is created to enhance human judgment, creativity, and connection, not to take them away. All of today's @Copilot announcements boil down to one core idea: we're betting on humanist AI. An AI that always […]

Google Earth Can Now Predict Cyclones and Hurricanes Using AI

By Chinmay Dhumal | October 23, 2025

Key Highlights: Google Earth AI was recently introduced which integrated Gemini AI in the Earth portal. It allowed users use the portal more interatively by asking questions in a conversational format. The company has now upraded the concept by introducing geospatial reasoning which can now predict natural calamities like cyclones, hurricanes, and other disasters. The feature is currently being tested in the United States as an experiment. Geospatial Reasoning in Google Earth AI Google has developed advanced geospatial reasoning models using publically available data for better urban planning and disaster management. It analyses the pattern of all recorded incidents to […]

Claude Code Launched For Web Directly From Your Browser

By Arshiya Kunwar | October 21, 2025

Key Highlights – Claude Code on the web is a significant upgrade to Anthropic’s AI coding assistant, which has been introduced to the public. Developers can now run coding sessions straight from their browser. The feature was announced on October 20, 2025, and it is presently in beta as a research preview for Claude Pro and Max users, who are the only ones allowed to access it. Claude Code on the web was specifically developed to make routine development work simpler, and therefore, the engineers who are assigned to do the coding can do so without having to open a […]

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