Microsoft is rolling out Excel Canvas, a Copilot feature that turns workbook data into an interactive report of visualizations, metrics and insights that refreshes automatically when the underlying nu…
OpenAI launched a ChatGPT add-in for Microsoft Word on September 17, 2026, embedding the chatbot as an installable sidebar available to all ChatGPT users globally, from free-tier accounts to enterpris…
OpenAI launched ChatGPT inside Microsoft Word on September 17th, making the add-in available across every ChatGPT plan including Free, subject to usage limits, and extending the same Microsoft add-in …
A developer proposes a "known-answer" testing method for spreadsheet AI copilots, arguing that assistants should first reproduce verified totals and explain their cell ranges before being trusted with…
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, now powering the Computer Use API, has improved screen understanding and multi-step exploration planning enough to make handing QA testing to an AI agent a realistic option as of…
A developer released a skill for ChatGPT, Codex, and Claude that preserves Excel .xlsx formatting and Mac compatibility when editing existing workbooks. The skill treats the workbook as an Office Open…
Anthropic's Claude for Microsoft 365 Excel add-in is the focus of a free starter kit that teaches users to build an AI analyst report, with a worked example yielding $54,700 in net completed sales for…
OpenAI has built an unannounced, gated review system in its ChatGPT/Codex desktop client that lets users attach native Office comments or private ChatGPT assignments to specific Excel ranges and Power…
Apple announced the new Mac mini with M6 and M5 Pro chips, delivering up to 4x faster AI performance, 2x faster graphics and storage, and 40 percent faster CPU performance, with pre-orders starting to…
Google is updating Google Sheets to convert Microsoft Excel tables directly into native Sheets tables and linked pivot tables into interactive pivot tables, with Excel table imports available now and …
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched Amazon Quick for Microsoft 365, an agentic AI assistant now generally available as extensions for Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, bringing connec…
OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, a startup that converts prompts, notes, documents, and research into editable presentations, with founder Ahmed Beshry joining OpenAI's product team to work on ChatGPT. …
Microsoft Elevate Training Center has enabled two young Indonesians, Muhammad Yusuf Fadhel Marwiji from Makassar and Emejleano Rusmin Nggepo from Tangerang Regency, to build digital careers through AI…
Tadashi Shigeoka reports that XLOOKUP formulas written in Microsoft Excel can return empty or incorrect results when the .xlsx file is opened in Google Sheets, and recommends replacing XLOOKUP with SU…
Microsoft AI on July 23rd, 2026 announced the rollout of two new MAI models built with a hill-climbing training pipeline, integrated into GitHub Copilot and Microsoft Excel. The models claim to match …
The Claude AI for Microsoft Excel Mastery Bundle is on sale for $19.99, down from the MSRP of $97, teaching users how to leverage Claude AI to automate spreadsheet tasks and simplify Excel workflows.…
A former employee describes how they automated a manual newspaper-clipping job using Microsoft SQL, reducing 7 hours of work to 20 minutes, and then built a reporting tool that impressed their boss an…
A researcher applied METR's time-horizon methodology to Microsoft Excel and found it completes tasks requiring 6.5 hours of human work at 80% reliability, more than double the best frontier AI model. …
RF engineers traditionally analyze LTE and 5G KPIs using Microsoft Excel, despite the rise of AI-powered dashboards. The manual workflow involves importing reports, cleaning data, applying filters, an…
Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman said on the Platformer podcast that half of white-collar jobs may change due to AI, but dismissed fears of widespread job elimination, citing new job creation and t…