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1. Oct 16
   Microsoft launches Copilot for Legal with 20+ law-specific skills

   Microsoft announced Copilot for Legal, a version of its Microsoft 365 Copilot assistant for lawyers and in-house legal teams, offering more than 20 law-specific skills delivered as plugins. In Word desktop, it reviews contracts against a company's playbook and proposes edits in tracked-changes mode that users must approve, while the cross-app Cowork workspace handles multi-document work such as obligation tracking, agreement comparison and case timelines. Microsoft said the capabilities, offered in a Frontier stage since April, have been used by more than 1,800 people to generate nearly 100,000 edit suggestions, about 70% of which were adopted — figures from Microsoft's own usage and internal evaluation, not independent testing. Partners including Bloomberg Law, Thomson Reuters HighQ, DocuSign, Harvey, Relativity, iManage and NetDocuments supply plugins, and Microsoft says AI output still needs professional verification.

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2. Oct 12
   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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