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Microsoft is facing questions about losing its AI edge as GitHub suffers bot-driven outages and Copilot struggles against Anthropic's Claude Code. Microsoft VP Scott Hanselman pushes back, arguing the company's agentic AI push — including adopting open-source OpenClaw — keeps Microsoft competitive, not behind.
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