• Microsoft sees itself as cheaper and more effective at bundling the full stack
• The company is clearly pushing its own internal models
• Claude also slated for being slower and less accurate

Microsoft is reportedly teaching sales workers how to compare the company's AI offerings to rival companies like OpenAI and Anthropic.

Per Bloomberg reporting, the company's sales staff are being told to emphasize benefits like efficiency and cost advantages when using Microsoft's offerings, which offer a much fuller picture than just the models and tools, extending to compute and other workflow tools.

"Everyone else is selling parts – we’re selling the full end-to-end system," EVP Jay Parikh reportedly told workers. "That’s the story that we all need to get out there and tell in FY27."

Microsoft sales teams up the ante against OpenAI, Anthropic

Clearly, the company wants customers to see the combination of its own models and third-party models, cloud infrastructure, applications and security as better value compared with having to piece these elements together separately.

Copilot EVP Jacob Andreou also reportedly compared Copilot to Claude, accusing Claude of being slower, less accurate and missing certain security integrations.

The sales push comes at a time of change for the company, which has started to push more of its own internal models across different apps and workflows to replace OpenAI and Anthropic models. It's also a marked shift from the company's earlier AI strategy, which leaned heavily on its multibillion-dollar partnership with OpenAI.

Company CEO Satya Nadella also pointed at a major customer, Unilever, which recently switched form an unnamed frontier model to one of Microsoft's own cheaper models to make significant savings.

In April, the company announced that its AI business is now worth around $37 billion annually, marking a 123% year-over-year increase.

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• Trump says data centers are good for communities, creating jobs and funding their own power/water
• New York State just banned large projects for a year to focus on developing new guidance
• Trump worries ongoing bans could cause the US to lose out in the global AI race

US President Donald Trump has criticized New York Governor Kathy Hochul's recent executive order to introduce a year-long, statewide ban on hyperscale data centers, urging the state to change its stance "immediately."

In a post on Truth Social, Trump characterized data centers as "money machines" that create taxes and jobs comparable to "liquid gold," implying not only are they crucial for cloud computing and AI, but also for the country's economy.

Though states like "Alabama, Florida, Texas, Arizona" and others could now see more projects being relocated amid ongoing moratoriums, Trump worries about the implications of this "terrible decision."

Trump hits back at New York State moratorium

The executive order, signed by Governor Hochul on July 14 2026, makes New York the first US state to impose a statewide moratorium on new data centers – in this case, those requiring 50MW+ of power.

Despite mounting local opposition for data center buildouts across the US, and indeed the world, Trump argues they're "tremendous wins for the states and communities that are lucky enough to get them," being that they create jobs and are responsible for "their own water and power."

It's important to note that the year-long ban for New York State is exactly that – a temporary ban designed to buy the state enough time to consider environmental and social impacts, and to rewrite legislation and guidance accordingly.

Urging Governor Hochul to "change its policy, immediately," Trump argues that ongoing moratoriums like these could cause the US to lose to "China, and other countries" in what's playing out to be a global AI race.