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Anthropic is making a push into the small business market, rolling out a dedicated Claude tier aimed squarely at teams that can't afford enterprise contracts but need more than a personal subscription. It's a familiar playbook — meet customers where they are — and it signals that the AI assistant wars are increasingly being fought on the ground floor of the economy, not just in corporate data centers.
Meanwhile, Reddit appears to be testing a tactic that will frustrate a lot of casual users: blocking mobile web access to push people toward downloading the app. It's a move that trades short-term engagement metrics for long-term goodwill, and it raises real questions about who actually controls access to content that communities spent years building together.
And Microsoft has quietly retired Copilot Mode in its Edge browser, not because Copilot is going away, but because the company says it's now woven into everything. That framing is either a sign of genuine integration or a masterclass in rebranding a retreat — and the distinction matters more than Microsoft's press release suggests.
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