Modern business intelligence demands speed, and utilizing AI tools for Excel is the ultimate way to hyper-charge your data workflows this year.

Data analysis is no longer a specialist skill reserved for analysts. It now supports finance, trading, ecommerce, marketing, ...

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

A boring setting with huge payoff.

In my previous note, I wrote about how I studied Python for about 1000 hours. I automated Excel tasks with Python, turning work that took hours into something that finished in seconds. After that, ...

Criminal hackers have used artificial intelligence to develop a working zero-day exploit, the first confirmed case of its kind, according to a report released today by Google LLC’s Google Threat ...

Data work in 2026 asks for more than chart building. Professionals are expected to clean data, query databases, explain trends, and present findings clearly across business, finance, product, and ...

So far Excel users had three ways to invoke Copilot. Microsoft has now decided that was three too many. In February 2026, the company retired App Skills entry points from the Excel ribbon and context ...

Microsoft is removing the standalone App Skills feature in Excel as it continues to streamline Copilot across Microsoft 365. The move follows broader changes to Data Loss Prevention (DLP) after ...

Developers spend a huge chunk of their time in the terminal like running commands, reading logs, debugging scripts, working with git, managing servers, and automating tasks. But the terminal is also ...

Imagine transforming hours of tedious data work into mere minutes of productivity. That’s the promise of Microsoft Copilot in Excel, a new AI-powered assistant designed to transform how you manage, ...