Microsoft announced Copilot Cowork as a new Copilot capability for Microsoft 365 that moves beyond single-response assistance to plan-and-execute workflows across Microsoft 365 apps and files. Cowork converts a user’s intent into a structured plan, runs the plan across supported apps and data sources, and surfaces checkpoints that require user confirmation before applying changes. The feature is positioned to operate
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When Plugins Move Markets: Lessons from a Single-Day “SaaSpocalypse”
Anthropic’s rapid rollout of open‑source plugins for Claude Cowork—especially a legal workflow plugin—triggered a market shock that erased roughly $285 billion in software, legal‑tech, and related stocks in a single day. The episode is less about one technical breakthrough and more about a strategic shift: model providers are moving from offering raw capability to delivering vertical workflows. That marginal step