In September, I wrote a blog post advising against enabling Anthropic in Microsoft Copilot. The reason was that the integration was under completely separate terms and data processing agreements.
Thankfully, Microsoft has listened to feedback and onboarded Anthropic as a subprocessor. Whilst this doesn’t significantly change the technical implementation, it completely changes the contractual side. Use of Anthropic models is now covered by the usual Microsoft Terms and Conditions, Data Protection Addendum, and Enterprise Data Protection.
You can still opt out of using Anthropic models. For example, you might choose to do this if you haven’t fully evaluated the Anthropic models yet.
More details are available in this blog post: Anthropic as a Subprocessor for Microsoft Online Services.
And a big thank you to Microsoft for acting quickly on this.
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One reply on “A welcome update on Microsoft Copilot and Anthropic”
Hello Michael
I see in the link to MS’s news item, a mention of the “Commercial” cloud – are educational tenancies part of that?