Microsoft is continuing its push to bring generative AI (genAI) into Excel, with new Microsoft 365 Copilot skills designed to automate common processes and a “plan” mode to provide more control over Copilot’s outputs when handling financial data.
Microsoft made Microsoft 365 Copilot generally available in Excel in late 2024 and since then has added several capabilities, including agentic tools, a Copilot function within Excel, and Python support for advanced data analysis.
On Thursday, Microsoft unveiled a skills feature that lets users define processes Copilot can perform in Excel — such as building a discounted cash flow, Microsoft suggested, preparing a variance analysis, or refreshing a monthly reporting model.
“Instead of starting from scratch each time, a skill guides Copilot through the steps, applying the right structure and formatting, and helping produce an output that is easier to review, reuse, and trust,” Brian Jones, vice president for Excel at Microsoft, said in a bl
SpatialClaw is NVIDIA Research’s latest AI framework that enables agents to write, execute, and refine their own reasoning through executable Python code rather than relying on predefined tool calls. The approach delivers significant gains in spatial intelligence across complex 3D and 4D tasks without requiring additional training.
In this tutorial, we build a fully offline Graphify pipeline that turns a multi-module Python application into a knowledge graph. We install Graphify, generate a connected sample app, and extract the graph locally using tree-sitter, with no API key or LLM backend. We load graph.json into NetworkX and analyze file types, relationship types, centrality scores, community detection, and shortest paths. We then create static and interactive visualizations to see how modules, classes, functions, and database objects connect.
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In this tutorial, we build a multilingual ASR and speech translation pipeline with NVIDIA Canary-1B-v2. We load the model on a GPU-enabled runtime, prepare audio into 16 kHz mono, and run English ASR. We then translate speech into French, German, Spanish, and Italian, and extract word and segment timestamps. We export translated subtitles as an SRT file, test long-form transcription, run batch processing, and benchmark inference speed.
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OpenAI has launched a program with cybersecurity firm Trail of Bits to use AI to find and fix vulnerabilities in widely used open-source software, as enterprises face growing risks from flaws buried deep in their software supply chains.
The initiative, called Patch the Planet, uses AI-assisted vulnerability research alongside human review to help turn security findings into tested fixes that can be disclosed through existing project channels.
Initial participants include Python, Go, cURL, Sigstore, NATS Server, aiohttp, freenginx, pyca/cryptography, and python.org. These projects support software development, networking, cryptography, and supply chain infrastructure used across a wide range of enterprise applications and services.
OpenAI said each engagement will begin with consultation with maintainers to identify where security support is most needed. Researchers will then investigate potential vulnerabilities, validate meaningful issues, develop or refine patches, support testing, a
In this tutorial, we build a Prefab application that creates interactive dashboards entirely in Python. We design an operations dashboard with reactive state, charts, tables, filters, forms, tabs, and metrics. We generate synthetic pipeline monitoring data and connect it to live UI controls. We then export the app as static HTML and preview it directly inside Google Colab.
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LLMs are stateless by default. Agent memory fixes that. This guide breaks down all 7 types — working, semantic, episodic, procedural, retrieval, parametric, and prospective. It covers what each stores, where it lives, and when to build it. Includes a comparison table and working Python code.
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