In their defense (both OP and HubSpot) the original is written to customers already aware of the context, and HackerNews asks submitters not to editorialize by default.
The harness? I believe the company is planning to ease off in favor of Copilot. But we have our choice of models to use in Copilot, which feature Anthropic's as well.
This article seems to miss Dawkins' point, which is not to assert that Claude is conscious -- he clearly states that he does not actually know. He seeks to wonder what brought about the evolution of consciousness in the first place.
They aren't wrong, but I suspect they are not going far enough in their prediction.
The future of AI will be dominated by Personal Computing, just like with normal application software, since AI, particularly voice and video and computer interaction, are at the IO layer and thus latency-sensitive for online tasks, and that is before privacy gets into the picture at all.
You do not need a Professional or Enterprise license to use the Visual Studio Build Tools:
> Previously, if the application you were developing was not OSS, installing VSBT was permitted only if you had a valid Visual Studio license (e.g., Visual Studio Community or higher).
If you need the Windows(/App) SDK too for the WinRT-features, you can add `winget install --id Microsoft.WindowsSDK.10.0.18362` and/or `winget install --id Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.8`
No, the antitrust case turned slightly on appeal (due to Microsoft being able to point at the judge giving interviews about the case on TV /during/ the case), removing the breakup order and enabling them to settle with a Consent Decree. Note that it did not invalidate the findings of fact.