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Microsoft Copilot Finished Last in an Excel AI Showdown — Here’s Why It Matters Artificial intelligence is becoming a serious productivity layer for spreadsheet work, but not every AI tool is equally prepared for the complexity of real Excel workflows. A recent comparison of four AI systems —...

OpenAI’s latest reasoning-tier model, widely referred to as ChatGPT 5.4 Thinking, has surfaced in public demos that show the model generating complete, production-ready Excel workbooks — five well‑formatted sheets, linked formulas, documentation, and scenario analyses — in minutes. The...

Microsoft's recent tweaks to Excel—the company quietly changing how the app displays and interprets certain cell contents—are more than a small UI adjustment; they are a deliberate attempt to reduce a long‑running source of user confusion while simultaneously folding AI workflows deeper into the...

Microsoft’s February 2026 wave of Excel updates cements the spreadsheet as Microsoft’s primary battleground for embedding AI into everyday knowledge work, with a steady stream of Copilot improvements, new import and data functions, and developer-facing enhancements that push Excel from a...