To try Agent Mode in Excel, you need to get the Excel Labs add-in and choose Agent Mode. In Word, you can just open Copilot ...

Microsoft is rolling out new AI features in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint as part of what it calls “vibe working.” The updates introduce Agent Mode and Office Agent, tools designed to handle multi-step ...

Excel doesn’t have a direct equivalent. To achieve the same result, you’d either have to piece together complex formulas with functions like SEARCH or write custom VBA scripts. While those approaches ...

Even in the realm of scientific research, AI models may only discover correlations within laboratory data, failing to grasp the underlying causes. This reasoning relies not only on the data itself but ...

Consumer prices were up 2.9% in August from a year earlier, hotter than July's gain of 2.7%. The year-over-year reading was the highest since the start of 2025. ECB Holds Rates Steady, Just as Fed Is ...

WSJ’s Konrad Putzier breaks down two new datasets on employment and income levels in 2024, and what they reveal about the economy that President Trump inherited in his second term. Photo Illustration: ...

Sourcetable’s AI agents can fetch data from cloud services and databases, then write code to analyze it—all from a familiar spreadsheet environment. Spreadsheet apps like Microsoft Excel and Google ...

Nchangwi Syntia Munung is a bioethics researcher in the Division of Human Genetics, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. As a group of African bioethics and data-science researchers with ...

Microsoft is upgrading its AI assistant further with the introduction of the NetApp Neo Copilot Connector. That’s a new method of pulling external enterprise data directly into Microsoft 365 Copilot.

A new COPILOT function in Excel lets you use AI in a formula. The new skill is now available to Microsoft 365 insiders. Reduces some of the complexity involved in creating formulas. Get more in-depth ...