Microsoft unveiled a September 25 Copilot update that consolidates chat, coding, and autonomous agents into a single app organized around three tabs: Home, Code, and Autopilot. The Home tab merges the…
A developer evaluated more than 500 agent skills against a six-dimension rubric covering trigger quality, structure, workflow design, content, engineering, and security, and published a list of the te…
A new benchmark called ReFigBench, built on 1,000 real overview figures retrieved from arXiv papers, evaluates multimodal coding agents on reconstructing scientific figures as editable PowerPoint slid…
A developer demonstrated how to build a custom agent in about five minutes using Microsoft's M365 Agent Builder, requiring an M365 Copilot license but no per-use cost. The walkthrough covers selecting…
GeekyAnts launched the Report Intelligence Accelerator, a system that converts structured and semi-structured business data into analysed, visualised, and branded PowerPoint presentations while keepin…
Anthropic's Claude Design, currently in beta, enables users to create on-brand slide decks by first using Claude Code to convert existing decks into a reusable design system, then generating editable …
Microsoft has filed a patent for an 'Auto-Present' feature in PowerPoint that would let an AI agent narrate slides, advance them in sync, and answer live audience questions without a human presenter. …
Matt's guide to prompting AI agents emphasizes that updating a presentation requires giving the agent the full context—the deck, source material, change notes, and the decision the audience needs—and …
Anthropic offers a free starter kit for its Claude for PowerPoint add-in, featuring a fictional June 2026 Northstar Studio client-portfolio review with $54,700 in net completed sales, $55,500 paid sal…
Aspose.Slides released a new PowerPoint API designed for AI agents, reporting that on a benchmark of 195 tasks, every model performed better with the tools, and the cheapest model (Luna) beat the best…
Slide-deck.io launched an AI presentation builder that generates full decks from a one-sentence description in 30 seconds, exporting native .pptx files with editable charts and tables. The tool offers…
DeepSeek Harness (DSH) has released dsh-univer-office, a modular office plugin that enables the AI agent to create, edit, inspect, and deliver spreadsheets, documents, presentations, databases, and ca…
Claude 3.5 Sonnet hallucinated a Python DataFrame column name due to a UTF-8 BOM in the CSV file, causing a four-hour debugging session for a developer building an API latency dashboard. The developer…
The Conklin Group, a consultancy, has integrated Anthropic's Claude into its own website development and maintenance, using the AI assistant for bug fixes, features, content, and internal tooling. The…
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. …
Slack released a new feature set for summer 2025, enabling Slackbot to create presentations and dashboards, adding mobile CRM updates for Salesforce, and introducing scheduled statuses and temporary c…
A new open-source project under the MIT license provides typed .NET packages for creating, reading, editing, and converting Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, OneNote, email, PDF, Markdown, and other doc…
Microsoft has opened public previews of MAI-Image-2.5-Pro and MAI-Voice-2-Flash, expanding its in-house AI model family with one option tuned for maximum visual fidelity and another designed for high-…
Microsoft said on July 23 that Bing Image Creator is now fully powered by its MAI-Image-2.5 model, while PowerPoint and OneDrive also use the model for image editing, reporting up to 84% lower GPU cos…
Microsoft AI introduced MAI-Image-2.5-Pro and MAI-Voice-2-Flash, two new model variants now in public preview on Azure. MAI-Image-2.5-Pro is the company's highest-fidelity image model, priced at $5 pe…