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- Microsoft's new Office chief pushed to use Anthropic models to fix Copilot
The Information reports that in the summer of 2025 Microsoft was fielding customer complaints that its AI assistant Copilot was buggy and not good enough at automating work in Excel or PowerPoint. Charles Lamanna, then a Microsoft president, proposed to CEO Satya Nadella that the company consider paying for AI models from Anthropic to make Copilot work better, saying the idea was “heresy” at the time. According to the report, Lamanna is now Microsoft's new Office chief and won over Nadella by fixing Copilot.
The Information · 🔥 0 - Microsoft upgrades Copilot Notebooks with task delegation and Office editing
Microsoft is upgrading Copilot Notebooks with the ability to delegate tasks to Copilot, set up recurring automations such as daily briefings and weekly status reports, and generate interactive reports with data visualizations and filters. Users can now open and edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint files directly inside a notebook instead of switching to the corresponding Office apps. Audio Overviews gain more Microsoft 365 sources including Teams chats and Outlook mail plus new "Critique" and "Debate" formats, users can pick between models from OpenAI and Anthropic, and the features are rolling out in stages through Microsoft's Frontier preview program.
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