How-To Geek on MSN

The 5 levels of Excel users: Which one are you?

What starts as simple number tracking gradually becomes a journey into logic, visualization, automation, and data ...
How-To Geek on MSN

Excel finally fixed its worst problems—but you're still using the old workarounds

Excel has quietly gained dynamic arrays, XLOOKUP, Power Query, and Python, yet many still work the old way.
The Conversation

A New York Times critic used AI to write his review – but criticism is deeply human

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 ...
InfoWorld

What I learned using Claude Sonnet to migrate Python to Rust

If there’s one universal experience with AI-powered code development tools, it’s how they feel like magic until they don’t. One moment, you’re watching an AI agent slurp up your codebase and deliver a ...
Nature

Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud

All major large language models (LLMs) can be used to either commit academic fraud or facilitate junk science, a test of 13 models has found. Still, some LLMs performed better than others in the ...
AOL

Meet the Gen Z college students who turned Excel into a competitive esport—they’re competing in spreadsheet challenges and it’s helping them land jobs

If you’ve ever opened a spreadsheet, chances are you probably didn’t find it particularly fun—or feel eager to open it again in your free time. Beyond the novelty of being a spreadsheet master, ...
Business Insider

Anthropic pushes Claude into Excel and PowerPoint, escalating AI battle with Microsoft and OpenAI

Anthropic is embedding AI more deeply in popular work software tools. Claude AI now integrates with Excel, PowerPoint, and Slack, enhancing enterprise productivity. Anthropic challenges Microsoft, ...
The Washington Post

In some classrooms, teachers ask: Can AI teach students to write better?

When Craig Schmidt gave his high school English students an assignment based on “Fahrenheit 451,” he threw them a curveball: He told them to use ChatGPT. Schmidt asked the class to write several ...
National Catholic Reporter

Pope Leo tells priests not to use AI to write homilies or seek likes on TikTok

Pope Leo XIV has urged priests to not to use artificial intelligence to write their homilies or to seek "likes" on social media platforms like TikTok. In a question-and-answer session with clergy from ...
Inc

Anthropic’s New Claude Model Will Turn Your Spreadsheet Into a Pitch Deck

According to Anthropic, Opus 4.6 “brings more focus to the most challenging parts of a task without being told to, moves quickly through the more straightforward parts, handles ambiguous problems with ...
Neowin

Good news for Excel users: You can now import data from CSV files without Power Query

To make it easier to pull a .csv or .txt file directly into Excel without having to deal with Power Query, Microsoft is introducing two new import functions. Microsoft is making two new Import ...
Wired

Stop Using Your Keyboard and Start Using This Simple, Free Speech-to-Text App

If old sci-fi shows are anything to go by, we're all using our computers wrong. We're still typing with our fingers, like cave people, instead of talking out loud the way the future was supposed to be ...