Author name: Emma Roth

Microsoft Excel adds Copilot AI to help fill in spreadsheet cells

Microsoft Excel adds Copilot AI to help fill in spreadsheet cells

Microsoft Excel is testing a new AI-powered function that can automatically fill cells in your spreadsheets, which is similar to the feature that Google Sheets rolled out in June. You would use the “COPILOT” function followed by a natural language prompt and (optionally) specify the cells you want it to reference; the AI would then

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Microsoft Excel adds Copilot AI to help fill in spreadsheet cells

Microsoft Excel adds Copilot AI to help fill in spreadsheet cells

Microsoft Excel is testing a new AI-powered function that can automatically fill cells in your spreadsheets, which is similar to the feature that Google Sheets rolled out in June. You would use the “COPILOT” function followed by a natural language prompt and (optionally) specify the cells you want it to reference; the AI would then

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Claude AI will end ‘persistently harmful or abusive user interactions’

Claude AI will end ‘persistently harmful or abusive user interactions’

Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot can now end conversations deemed “persistently harmful or abusive,” as spotted earlier by TechCrunch . The capability is now available in Opus 4

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Meta hires anti-diversity activist Robby Starbuck as AI advisor to settle lawsuit

Meta hires anti-diversity activist Robby Starbuck as AI advisor to settle lawsuit

Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Conservative activist Robby Starbuck will serve as an advisor at Meta to address “ideological and political bias” within the company’s AI chatbot, according to a report from

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Supreme Court opens door to social media age-gating in US

Supreme Court opens door to social media age-gating in US

The Supreme Court will let Mississippi’s social media age verification law take effect while the case is being argued in court. In an unsigned ruling on Thursday, the court declined to block the law after an emergency petition from trade association NetChoice. The order offers no explanation, but in a concurring opinion, Justice Brett Kavanaugh

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Anthropic has new rules for a more dangerous AI landscape

Anthropic has new rules for a more dangerous AI landscape

Anthropic has updated the usage policy for its Claude AI chatbot in response to growing concerns about safety. In addition to introducing stricter cybersecurity rules, Anthropic now specifies some of the most dangerous weapons that people should not develop using Claude. Anthropic doesn’t highlight the tweaks made to its weapons policy in the post summarizing

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