Enterprise buyers are reshaping AI contracts and supply chains
Anthropic will keep customer data in enterprise clouds; Australian agencies pay for at least six AI suites, while Meta uses Microsoft services to benchmark competing models.
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Anthropic leaves customer data in enterprise clouds
Anthropic says data produced by enterprise customers using its Mythos and Fable models will remain in each customer's own cloud from the fall. Since June, the data has been held on Anthropic's servers for 30 days to detect new cyberattacks; the retention period and purpose will not change. The company acknowledged that the rule was unpopular and posed a business risk. The new arrangement followed months of work with more than 100 customers in regulated industries.[1]
Australian agencies count 29,000 Copilot subscriptions
In Australia, 67 of 1,386 federal entities answered a question put during Senate estimates. Their responses disclosed about 29,000 paid M365 Copilot subscriptions and at least six separate AI suites. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade reported more than 7,000 Copilot licences, the health department more than 5,000, and the Attorney-General's Department 652 Gemini and Gemini Notebook licences. A federal inquiry into AI adoption is expected to report by 30 November 2026.[2]
Meta benchmarks rival models through Microsoft
Meta accesses OpenAI models through Azure and Foundry and uses them to benchmark its own models, according to Bloomberg. It consumes trillions of tokens on Microsoft's services every week and has become one of the company's largest AI customers while building a competing API service. ByteDance leads the Foundry customer list, followed by Adobe, Perplexity, and Sierra. About 70 per cent of Microsoft's AI revenue comes from OpenAI's purchases of computing capacity.[3]
