Overview

• Harvard Medical School’s consumer arm, Harvard Health Publishing, has licensed its disease and wellness content to Microsoft.
• Harvard confirmed Microsoft will pay a licensing fee for access to the material.
• Microsoft says the next Copilot release, expected this month, will draw on the Harvard content for medical and wellness responses.
• The deal aligns with Microsoft’s effort to broaden its AI stack by integrating Anthropic’s Claude and developing in‑house models.
• Microsoft health AI lead Dominic King told the Wall Street Journal the goal is to deliver credible, trustworthy, and accessible health information.