Microsoft beefs up Copilot in Excel for finance work

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Microsoft adds new skills — and more oversight — for Copilot in Excel

The new features, including connectors to third-party data sources, are aimed at making the AI assistant more useful for ...
Computer Weekly

The ‘year of AI’: 2026 sees influx of ransomware attacks

At Infosecurity Europe 2026, Cynthia Kaiser, former FBI cyber deputy director and now SVP of anti-ransomware platform services supplier Halcyon, warned how ransomware is evolving with AI and becoming ...

Microsoft Copilot can now handle more of your finance work in Excel with reusable skills and data connectors

Microsoft added reusable Skills, new financial data connectors, and traceability features to Copilot in Excel, built specifically for finance teams.
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Excel's new AI agent mode changes everything

Microsoft has unveiled the new AI Agent mode in Excel, a feature that allows users to manage spreadsheets using natural ...
How-To Geek on MSN

How to generate random numbers, shuffle lists, and create test data in Excel

Excel's randomization functions generate values, shuffle datasets, and simulate timelines using simple formulas.
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6 Microsoft Excel Alternatives To Use

For years, Microsoft Excel has been hailed as one of the best in the business for creating and managing spreadsheets. It has always been a staple choice in both office and academic environments for a ...
Analytics Insight

Power Query vs Power Pivot in Excel 2026: Key Differences and Use Cases

Power Query and Power Pivot help Excel users manage large datasets more efficiently. Power Query focuses on cleaning and preparing data, while Power Pivot handles analysis and reporting. Together, ...
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Hackers Used AI to Develop First Known Zero-Day 2FA Bypass for Mass Exploitation

Google on Monday disclosed that it identified an unknown threat actor using a zero-day exploit that it said was likely developed with an artificial intelligence (AI) system, marking the first time the ...
IEEE

Cross-Lingual Adaptation for Vision-Language Model via Multimodal Semantic Distillation

Abstract: Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) excel in English multimedia tasks but face challenges in adapting to other languages due to linguistic diversity, limited non-English multimodal data, and high ...
GIGAZINE

IBM has released the 'Granite 4.1' series of AI models, open models that excel at following prompts and calling tools.

Granite 4.1 is a language model trained on a dataset worth 15 trillion tokens, and three open models have been released: 'Granite-4.1-30B' with 30 billion parameters, 'Granite-4.1-8B' with 8 billion ...
ZDNet

Microsoft just added AI agents to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint - how to use them

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