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Microsoft's New COPILOT Function Brings AI to Excel's Calculation Engine, Sparking Governance and Licensing Fears
Microsoft has quietly slipped generative AI into Excel’s formula bar. The new COPILOT function, now rolling out to Microsoft 365 Insiders, accepts natural-language prompts and cell ranges, then...
Microsoft Launches COPILOT Function: AI-Powered Prompts Now in Excel Cells
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Microsoft’s August 2025 Hotfixes Force Skype for Business Hybrid Users to Switch Dedicated Apps by October 15
Microsoft dropped an August 2025 hotfix bomb for Skype for Business Server that kills the comfort of a shared service principal and replaces it with a tenant-owned Dedicated Hybrid Application....
GPT-4 Can Infer Your Personality from Casual Chat, Study Finds—And That’s Why Windows Copilot Should Stay Personality-Free
GPT-4 can accurately infer your Big Five personality traits—openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism—from just a short conversation. That’s the startling finding of...
UK Policing to Test Microsoft Copilot Agents for Workflow Automation at ETS 2025
CPS, a Microsoft-aligned systems integrator, will showcase Copilot Agents specifically designed for UK policing at The Emergency Tech Show on September 17-18, 2025, inside the Microsoft Partner...
Fundamental Research Labs Lands $33M for AI Spreadsheet Agent Shortcut That Beats Human Analysts
Fundamental Research Labs, an MIT spin-out that originally built AI agents to play Minecraft, has raised $33 million in Series A funding to scale its autonomous spreadsheet agent, Shortcut. The tool...
JSON-Driven AI Video Meets Microsoft Copilot: The New Playbook for Finance
A fresh wave of free, JSON-driven AI video tools is quietly rewriting the rules of content production in financial services—and Microsoft has planted its flag firmly in the middle of the shift....
Microsoft’s AI Permitting Tool Escapes the Garage to Slash Clean Energy Red Tape
A prototype that began life inside a Microsoft hackathon is now a full-fledged commercial workstream, targeting one of the clean energy transition’s most stubborn bottlenecks: the painfully slow,...