🤖 Microsoft Is Quietly Turning Against OpenAI — And That's Just the Start

Today's episode of Daily Inference unpacks a wave of AI developments that reveal a widening chasm between hype and reality. A major new enterprise survey finds that most companies calling their tools 'AI agents' are really just running glorified chatbots, with only a fraction having deployed genuinely autonomous systems. Anthropic has emerged as the dominant enterprise AI platform, but companies are growing increasingly fearful of vendor lock-in — and Microsoft is exploiting that fear by training its sales teams to steer customers away from its own partner, OpenAI. Speaking of OpenAI, the company made a surprise hardware move this week, launching a physical developer device even as it battles Apple in a trade secret lawsuit — and a separate, more mysterious product is still reportedly in development. In the music world, a data breach at AI music startup Suno exposed alleged scraping of millions of songs from major platforms, adding fuel to an already explosive wave of copyright lawsuits hitting the AI industry. Major publishers also filed suit against Google over its use of copyrighted books to train Gemini. On the policy front, New York became the first U.S. state to hit pause on new hyperscale data centers, drawing immediate fire from President Trump, while Australia unveiled plans for a first-of-its-kind national Office of AI. And a stealthy AI lab just dropped a 975-billion-parameter open-source multimodal model that nobody saw coming.Subscribe to Daily Inference: dailyinference.comLove AI? Check out our other AI tools: 60sec.site and Artificial Intelligence Radio