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The latest Generative Ai coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
McGill’s Secure Microsoft Copilot Deployment Exposes Canadian Higher Education’s AI Balancing Act
McGill University has quietly become a bellwether for how Canadian higher education is embracing generative AI: not with blanket bans or open-arms acceptance, but through carefully managed, centrally...
SAP Deploys Generative AI Copilot in AWS and Microsoft Brazil Regions to Power Smarter ERP
SAP is planting its AI flag deep in Brazilian soil. The enterprise software giant has decided to host a key AI-powered business application inside Amazon Web Services and Microsoft datacenters in...
76% of Australian SMEs Have No AI Strategy Despite Rampant Tool Adoption, Decidr Report Reveals
A staggering 92% of Australian small and medium enterprises are already using generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot, but 76% have no formal AI strategy or roadmap. That chasm between...
Microsoft’s COPILOT Formula: AI That Spills, Recalculates, and Lives Inside Your Excel Cells
Microsoft has fundamentally re-engineered how generative AI operates inside Excel by turning Copilot into a native spreadsheet function that recalculates live like any other formula. The new COPILOT...
The =COPILOT() Function: Microsoft Makes AI a First-Class Citizen in Excel Formulas
Microsoft has just made its boldest move yet to embed generative AI into everyday productivity, introducing a new =COPILOT() function that allows Excel users to call Copilot directly from any cell....
Microsoft Launches COPILOT Function: AI-Powered Prompts Now in Excel Cells
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Microsoft Tests COPILOT Formula in Excel: Native AI That Recalculates Automatically
Microsoft has started testing a highly anticipated feature in Excel: a native AI function called COPILOT that embeds generative AI directly into the spreadsheet's calculation engine. Announced for...
Microsoft Research India's Dual Mission: Advancing Foundational AI While Deploying Copilots at Scale
Microsoft Research India is quietly orchestrating a dual-pronged strategy that few labs can match: it is pushing the boundaries of generative AI fundamentals while simultaneously deploying copilots...
Half an Hour Less Email, 12% Faster Docs: First Major M365 Copilot RCT Reveals Real Gains
A massive randomized controlled trial involving more than 6,000 workers at 56 companies has delivered the first rigorous, independent evidence on the productivity impact of Microsoft 365 Copilot. The...
Ohio Regulator Forces AI Giants to Foot Grid Upgrade Bill, Upending Cloud Power Economics
Ohio’s utility regulator just threw down a gauntlet that could reshape the economics of AI cloud infrastructure across the country. On July 9, 2025, the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO)...
Microsoft Hackathon Spawns AI Platform That Slashes Clean-Energy Permitting Timelines
A Microsoft hackathon project that began with a symbolic cliffside swim off the Irish coast has matured into a commercial-grade generative AI platform aimed at dismantling one of the biggest barriers...
Real Copilot Usage Data Reveals Interpreters and Historians Are Most Impacted by AI, Manual Jobs Least
After analyzing 200,000 anonymized conversations with Bing Copilot, Microsoft researchers have produced one of the clearest, most data-driven snapshots yet of how generative AI is seeping into real...