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September 16, 2024
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Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2: Pages, Python in Excel, and agents 

We are introducing Wave 2 of Microsoft 365 Copilot innovation, with three key updates. From enterprises to small businesses, they help Copilot get better every day. Nearly 1,000 customers have given us direct feedback on Copilot, and we’ve made more than 700 product updates based on that feedback.

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Measurement is the key to helping keep AI on track  

When Hanna Wallach first started testing machine learning models, the tasks were well-defined and easy to evaluate. Did the model correctly identify the cats in an image? Did it accurately predict the ratings different viewers gave to a movie? Did it transcribe the exact words someone just spoke? But this work of evaluating a model’s

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How BlackRock’s ‘flight crew’ helped Copilot for Microsoft 365 take off 

Category: Digital Transformation September 9, 2024 How BlackRock’s ‘flight crew’ helped Copilot for Microsoft 365 take off By Bill Briggs <!– Tags: –> AI Customers For months, Anthony Diaz-Matos led BlackRock’s deployment of Copilot for Microsoft 365. He tracked internal feedback on its performance. He extended the tool across the investment company’s workplace products –

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Smart ways students are using AI 

Category: AI Smart ways students are using AI By Susanna Ray August 29, 2024 Honors student James Evans often will ask Microsoft Copilot for “a summary that’s a little more understandable and readable” for confusing text — a complex paragraph about a tax issue, for example — as he studies for his business degree.  “That’s

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Transforming ERP, and the speed of business, with generative AI 

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) platforms were designed to help integrate the fragmented processes that comprise the operation of a large enterprise. But the way we do business keeps fundamentally changing. New business models disrupt the way companies sell products and services, blurring industry lines and transforming customer experiences.

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Enabling carbon reduction in the energy industry 

Led by the European Union (EU), the new global push toward improved industrial carbon management (ICM) requires sophisticated new support mechanisms, including the development of technologies capable of orchestrating the carbon capture and storage (CCS) process from early planning to operations.

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