Microsoft’s workforce will shrink in the next year, likely driven by the company’s recently announced voluntary retirement program. Those buyouts, which will be formally offered in about a week, will ...

Microsoft is rolling out a useful feature for Office users this week. The company has introduced Agent Mode inside Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, a more powerful version of the Copilot experience that ...

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Microsoft has introduced new Windows protections to defend against phishing attacks that abuse Remote Desktop connection (.rdp) files, adding warnings and disabling risky shared resources by default.

Anthropic launched a beta version of Claude for Word, another challenge to Microsoft's software empire and a bid to appeal more to the legal profession. The AI startup, having pushed Claude into Excel ...

An author and freelance journalist has admitted to using AI to help him write a book review for the New York Times. The Times promptly dropped Preston, calling his “reliance on A.I. and his use of ...

When Jared Hewitt’s co-worker claimed last winter that Hewitt used AI to write an incident report, she did it publicly. “And I work at a day care, so she was berating me in front of children,” he says ...

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Amazon released the 5.19.2 update a couple of weeks ago, and one feature that flew under the radar concerned PDF files. In the past, the only way to annotate and edit PDF files was to use Send to ...

Anthropic has upgraded its Claude AI model with new capabilities for Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, marking a strategic move to expand its enterprise footprint and potentially challenging Microsoft’s ...