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🤿Deep Dive: Finance teams now have a version of Copilot in Excel that can close the books and build models
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🤝Supported by: What the tech industry is talking about
🤿Deep Dive: Anthropic is accusing Alibaba of running the biggest known AI data theft attempt
⚒Tool Snapshots: Tools for AI, no-code, and productivity
🖼AI Art: Examples of great and trending AI art
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🤿 DEEP DIVE
Copilot in Excel Gets a Major Finance-Focused Update
Intelligence: Microsoft updated Copilot in Excel with tools built specifically for finance work, including custom workflow skills, six new financial data connectors, and a clearer way to see exactly what Copilot changed and why.
Teams can now save repeatable processes like building a DCF or closing the books as a skill file, and Copilot will follow that process every time instead of starting from scratch and guessing at the format.
Six new data connectors bring institutional-grade sources directly into the workbook, including PitchBook for private market data, FactSet for investment workflows, Daloopa for SEC filing fundamentals, and Morningstar for portfolio analytics.
Before making any changes, Copilot will show its plan first, outlining which cells, formulas, and assumptions it intends to touch so finance teams can review and approve before anything moves.
Every edit Copilot makes is attributed in the Show Changes pane alongside human edits, giving teams a clear audit trail that finance work has always required.
All core features are generally available now for Microsoft 365 Copilot customers across Excel on web, Windows, and Mac.
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🤿 DEEP DIVE
Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of Carrying Out Its Largest Known Distillation Attack
Intelligence: Anthropic wrote to the US Senate accusing Alibaba of running what it calls the largest known distillation attack against the company, using roughly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to pull 28.8 million exchanges from its models over about six weeks.
Distillation is when someone uses a stronger AI model's outputs to train a cheaper, weaker one, essentially copying the more capable model's knowledge without building it from scratch.
Anthropic says the attack ran from late April through early June, and that Alibaba proceeded despite the Trump administration's earlier warnings about exactly this kind of industrial-scale data extraction.
This is not the first time Anthropic has raised the alarm. Back in February, the company flagged similar campaigns from DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax, calling the attacks increasingly sophisticated.
All of this is happening while Anthropic is still trying to resolve a separate dispute with the Trump administration over the export control order that forced its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models offline for all users earlier this month.
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🖼 AI ART
Examples of great and trending AI art
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