MUO on MSN

This is the Excel feature I've been waiting 10 years for

If you've ever wished Excel could handle text patterns the way Python or JavaScript does, these functions deliver exactly ...
XDA Developers on MSN

I started using Microsoft Excel with Copilot and it's been a game-changer

After playing with Copilot in Excel for a while, I decided to throw a messy sales sheet at Copilot to see if it could ...

17 New Excel Features for 2026 to Speed up Your Work

Discover 17 new Excel features and functions for 2026, so you track edits and data faster. Including auto-refreshing pivots ...

Key Components of Effective Financial Modeling

Learn how financial modeling projects future performance and supports strategic planning with essential components like ...
Opinion

New Platform Challenges AI Industry Hype, Advocates for Embodied Intelligence Over Language Models

Emerging Voice in Tech Analysis Questions Trillion-Dollar AI Valuations and Points to Robotics as True Future of Artificial Intelligence The real value of AI will come from the systems we build around ...

Questa launches a new privacy focused AI Assistant to get insights from business files without any AI Training on them

Questa releases a Privacy focused AI Analytics Assistant that first anonymizes all sensitive information from documents to prevent AI training on them. AI Privacy is not an abstract academic concept ...
The New York Times

Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort

The Transportation Security Administration is flagging passengers for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to identify and detain travelers subject to deportation orders. The Transportation Security ...
E&E

States push to end secrecy over data center water use

The effort is drawing bipartisan support and is expected to come up again next year as officials grapple with the artificial intelligence boom’s side effects. States facing drought and dwindling ...
ConsumerAffairs

What is a ‘data center’ and how much electricity does it use?

Dominion Energy says its upcoming $11-a-month rate hike is driven by grid upgrades and inflation — not Virginia’s rapidly growing data-center industry. Critics note that Virginia hosts one of the ...
TechCrunch

Anthropic releases Opus 4.5 with new Chrome and Excel integrations

On Monday, Anthropic announced Opus 4.5, the latest version of its flagship model. It’s the last of Anthropic’s 4.5 series of models to be released, following the launch of Sonnet 4.5 in September and ...
InfoWorld

Microsoft Fabric IQ adds ‘semantic intelligence’ layer to Fabric

Where Microsoft promises enterprises better understanding of their data for workers and autonomous agents alike, analysts fear deployment hurdles and vendor lock-in. With Fabric IQ, Microsoft is ...
JournalofAccountancy

Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

Q. How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work? A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of ...