🍭 Apple, Anthropic, and AI 🤖

Good morning. The intern said he vibe coded a time machine.

He just quit and said he’ll be back yesterday…

Let’s dig in.

🍭 What’s Cookin’:

• Copilot meets Claude

• Anthropic’s $1.5B settlement gets delayed

• ToolBox™: Automate Like a Mad Scientist

• And Everything Else

Claude <> Copilot
🧏‍♂️ Microsoft Quietly Taps Anthropic For Office AI

The Bite: Microsoft plans to route select Microsoft 365 Copilot features to Anthropic’s Claude. (alongside OpenAI models)

After internal tests showed Claude shines at things like prettier slides and finance‑y Excel tasks, per reports.

Official announcement expected in the coming weeks.

Snacks:

• Where It Lands: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook.

• Some Copilot features get Claude under the hood.

• Why Claude: Internal trials reportedly favored Claude for slide generation and certain spreadsheet ops.

• How It Runs: Microsoft will pay Anthropic via AWS even as Azure remains home base.

• Price Check: No change to Microsoft 365 Copilot pricing (as of now).

Why it Bites: Microsoft turned Office into a model swingers’ club.

Some tasks get GPT, others get Claude, and users don’t even know whose code baby they’re raising.

It’s efficient for Microsoft.

But for OpenAI, it’s like watching your long-term partner rave about how much better someone else makes PowerPoint transitions.

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Everything Else
🧠 You Need to Know

📱 New iPhone(s) just dropped:

→ The new iPhone 17 has a 120Hz display

And Tim Cook added a new ultra-thin phone to the family: iPhone Air

🦄 AI infrastructure company scored $17B+ gig with Microsoft:

→ Nebius will supply Microsoft with massive GPU-powered infrastructure.

The deal reportedly is worth up to $19.4B.

⚛️ Startup brings AI to nuclear plants:

→ Nuclearn raised $10.5M to help operators manage the boring part of nuclear reactors: paperwork.

Already running in 65+ plants worldwide proving to you that boring pays the bills.

⚙️ Nvidia drops a GPU for “long-thinking” AI:

→ The Rubin CPX chip handles million-token contexts.

It can process hours of video or code in one go.
Launch set for late 2026.

📲 Your texts and DMs just got upgraded flavor:

→ Bigfoot, an orca, and a treasure chest and six other
new emojis hitting phones over the next year.

_ToolBox™
🧰 5 AI Tools to Automate Like a Mad Scientist

🛠️ Retool — Agents for internal tools

→ Connect AI workers to your APIs and data to execute governed workflows and decisions.

⚡ Zapier — Connect AI to 5,000+ apps

→ Wire your AI app or agent into your stack to trigger actions across tools.

🧱 Bubble — Build apps without code

→ Full‑stack visual programming for web—and now native mobile apps (beta) for iOS/Android.

🔗 n8n — Workflow automation for builders

→ Source‑available automations with code when you need it—including LLM integrations.

🧩 Make — Visual automation workflow platform

→ Design and scale automations (and AI) on a canvas with a bird’s‑eye view.

Anthropic
👨‍⚖️ Judge Smacks Pause on Anthropic’s $1.5B Deal

The Bite: A federal judge delayed preliminary approval of Anthropic’s proposed $1.5B settlement with a class of authors, saying he needs more detail on who’s covered and how claims will work.

The plan had proposed a payout of roughly $3k per book for 500k(ish) titles.

Catch our earlier breakdown from Monday: (link to mondays article goes here).

Snacks:

• The Judge: Judge Alsup pressed pause and asked for more transparency before any green light.

• The Math: $3k per book. Plan called about 500k books in question.

• The Homework: Parties must file more info on affected works.

• The Backstory: In June, Alsup signaled training on lawfully acquired books might be fair use but claims tied to pirated copies don’t qualify.

• What’s Next: Preliminary approval reconsideration once the court gets the details it wants.

Why it bites: Anthropic thought they could Venmo authors $1.5B and call it a day.

Instead, the judge basically said: show your receipts.

If this stalls or shrinks, every AI lab planning to bulk-settle copyright claims might need a ‘Plan B.’