Meridian, which uses AI to make financial modeling and spreadsheets more “predictable and auditable”, exits stealth and raised a $17M seed at a $100M valuation
The fight to tame spreadsheets with AI isn't over yet. A new company called Meridian has emerged from stealth …
Solve Intelligence, which offers generative AI tools to law firms for IP and patent law work, raised a $40M Series B, bringing its total funding to $55M
With most intellectual property or patent law work done with spreadsheets, docs, and PDFs, this is a ripe arena for generative AI …
OpenAI quietly adopted Anthropic's “skills” mechanism in ChatGPT and Codex; ChatGPT's skills include creating and modifying spreadsheets, docx files, and PDFs
One of the things that most excited me about Anthropic's new Skills mechanism back in October is how easy it looked for other platforms to implement.
OpenAI says GPT‑5.2 Thinking beats or ties industry professionals on 70.9% of GDPval knowledge work tasks, delivering outputs at >11x the speed and <1% the cost
OpenAI eyes January exit from “code red” John Werner / Forbes : The Wonder And The Promise Of GPT 5.2 Is Here Benj Edwards / Ars Technica : OpenAI releases GPT-5.2 after “code red” Google threat alert...
A look at Microsoft Excel's evolution, as it remains the most widely used spreadsheet software with 500M paying users despite competition from Google and others
Before it took over her life, Leila Gharani mostly took Microsoft Excel for granted. She was working on a process optimization project … X: @mattmday . LinkedIn: Rachel Metz and Max Chafkin . Forums:...
Microsoft launches Agent Mode in Excel and Word, using GPT-5 to generate complex spreadsheets and documents, saying it is “bringing vibe working” to 365 Copilot
A new Agent Mode comes to Office apps today, alongside an Office Agent in Copilot chat.
Anthropic's Claude can now create PDFs, slides, and spreadsheets, available now for Max, Team, and Enterprise users, and coming to Pro users in the coming weeks
ZDNET's key takeaways — Anthropic's Claude can now create PDFs, slides, and spreadsheets. — File creation is available to Max, Team, and Enterprise users.
Leaked spreadsheets, Slack messages, and files linked to an alleged group of North Korean IT scammers show how they track potential jobs and record earnings
A new cache of data—emails, spreadsheets, Slack messages—reveals how meticulously they plan and track job applications, earnings, and day-to-day work life X: Dino A. Dai Zovi / @dinodaizovi : Maybe we...
An interview with computational linguist Emily Bender, who coined the term “stochastic parrot”, on her AI skepticism, co-writing the book The AI Con, and more
The computational linguist on her motivations for taking on Big Tech, the dangers of chatbots — and why AI is just a ‘glorified Magic 8 Ball’ Bluesky: @hypervisible , @tonytassell , and @nataliegreenp...
Perplexity launches Perplexity Labs, letting users craft reports, spreadsheets, dashboards, and more, available on the web, iOS, and Android for its Pro users
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :