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Anthropic: The Most Unlikely Comeback Story in the History of AI
Artificial Intelligence
Mehul Thakkar

Anthropic: The Most Unlikely Comeback Story in the History of AI

In January 2024, OpenAI was generating $2 billion in annual revenue. Anthropic was a rounding error at a reported $87 million. ChatGPT had hundreds of millions of users. Claude had almost none. By April 2026, the lines crossed. Anthropic hit a reported $47 billion run rate while OpenAI sat at a reported $25 billion, with 30 times fewer users.

This is the story of how that happened.

June 15, 2026 10:00 am
Are You Using AI in Excel or Is AI Using You?
Microsoft Excel
Mehul Thakkar

Are You Using AI in Excel or Is AI Using You?

Everyone is telling Excel users to stop learning formulas and let AI write them instead. That advice works until the AI generates a VLOOKUP when you needed an INDEX MATCH, uses an absolute reference where you needed a relative one, or builds a formula that technically works but breaks the moment someone adds a row. The people who catch those errors are the ones who know Excel. The ones who do not are the ones who stopped learning it.

June 8, 2026 10:00 am
3 Copilot Updates Excel Users Cannot Afford to Miss
Microsoft Excel
Mehul Thakkar

3 Copilot Updates Excel Users Cannot Afford to Miss

You are reviewing a shared Excel workbook. A colleague made a dozen changes overnight. Some were manual edits. Some were generated by Copilot on their behalf. Scrolling through the file, there is no way to tell which is which.

That changes with one of the three Copilot updates Microsoft released for Excel this month. Here is what each update does.

June 1, 2026 10:00 am
Google announced the biggest change in 25 years
Artificial Intelligence
Mehul Thakkar

Google announced the biggest change in 25 years

For 25 years, searching Google meant typing a few words into a box and choosing from a list of blue links. That experience ended last week. Google announced the biggest change to its search box in over a quarter-century, and the internet will not work the same way again.

May 25, 2026 10:00 am
Microsoft Just Released 9 Power BI Features That Will Change How You Work
Power BI
Mehul Thakkar

Microsoft Just Released 9 Power BI Features That Will Change How You Work

You open a Power BI report and ask Copilot to summarise it. It reads every visual and gives you a concise breakdown of trends, highlights, and notable changes across the entire report. One click. No prompt engineering. No manual interpretation.

That is one of several updates
Microsoft released this month that remove steps professionals have been doing manually for years.

May 18, 2026 10:00 am
Claude Opus 4.7 vs ChatGPT 5.5: Which One Should You Actually Use?
Artificial Intelligence
Mehul Thakkar

Claude Opus 4.7 vs ChatGPT 5.5: Which One Should You Actually Use?

You have already been reading about ChatGPT and Claude on this blog. But in April 2026, both Anthropic and OpenAI released their most powerful models within a week of each other. The question is no longer what each model can do. But which one performs better on the tasks you actually do every day?

May 11, 2026 10:00 am
3 Signs AI Is Already Out of Control
Artificial Intelligence
Mehul Thakkar

3 Signs AI Is Already Out of Control

Anthropic built an AI model and locked it away because it was too dangerous to release. Autonomous agents are already replacing entire startup teams. And over 20% of what you see on YouTube is now low-quality AI-generated content flooding the platform. None of this is a prediction. All three happened in April 2026 alone.

May 4, 2026 10:00 am
Meet Claude Design: Anthropic's Answer to Figma
Artificial Intelligence
Mehul Thakkar

Meet Claude Design: Anthropic’s Answer to Figma

You have a pitch deck due tomorrow. The idea is clear in your head. The slides are not. You open PowerPoint, stare at a blank canvas, and spend the next two hours formatting instead of thinking. The design problem was never really about design skills. It was about the gap between an idea and a shareable visual.

Anthropic recently launched Claude Design, a new product aimed at addressing exactly this.

April 27, 2026 10:00 am
10 Tips to Stop Hitting Claude's Usage Limit
Artificial Intelligence
Mehul Thakkar

10 Tips to Stop Hitting Claude’s Usage Limit

You open Claude to finish a report and hit the message you dread. Usage limit reached. You have been using it since morning, but feel like nothing got done. You were not asking for anything extraordinary. Just normal work. A few summaries. Some edits. A couple of drafts.

April 20, 2026 10:00 am
4 Excel Updates Released This Month
Microsoft Excel
Mehul Thakkar

4 Excel Updates Released This Month

You open Excel on the web, need to find that report from three days ago, and spend the next four minutes scrolling the homepage trying to locate it. Then you ask Copilot for help and realise it has no idea about the email thread or meeting notes that explain the data. You end up doing it manually anyway.

Three of this month’s updates address exactly this. One changes the AI model you can use entirely.

April 13, 2026 10:00 am