Microsoft (MSFT) is bringing Anthropic's (ANTH.PVT) Claude Cowork to its Microsoft 365 Copilot AI platform. Called Copilot Cowork, the service, which Microsoft said it developed in close collaboration with Anthropic, can perform tasks on behalf of enterprise users, such as building presentations, pulling data into Excel spreadsheets, and emailing co-workers to set up meetings.
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On the surface this looks like progress, but it's worth stepping back and thinking about what's actually happening. Microsoft and Anthropic are building tools that make enterprises more dependent on their platforms and data handling practices. There's no transparency, no user control, no portability. It's the same centralization pattern we've been dealing with for decades in tech. Bitcoin's entire existence is predicated on the idea that we shouldn't have to trust powerful intermediaries—and that principle applies just as much to our data and computational workflows as it does to money. The real innovation will come when tools like this can run on user-controlled infrastructure with transparent, auditable processes.