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Microsoft Just Launched Its Own MAI Models

On June 2, 2026, at its Build developer conference, Microsoft announced a family of seven in-house AI models under the MAI brand, the most concrete step yet in the company’s plan to stop being just the best distributor of someone else’s frontier models. The lineup spans reasoning, coding, image generation, voice, and transcription, and it […]

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GitHub & Microsoft Copilot Free for Students in 2026: What Still Works

If you are a student or teacher hoping to get Copilot free in 2026, the rules changed sharply this spring. GitHub paused new sign-ups for its free Copilot Student plan on April 20, 2026, with no reopening date announced. Verified students who activated Copilot before the pause keep free access under the new GitHub Copilot […]

How to use AI in Excel — complete 2026 guide covering Copilot, Fello AI, ChatGPT and more

How to Use AI in Excel to Create and Edit Spreadsheets [Complete 2026 Guide]

78% of organizations worldwide were using AI in their workflows as of 2024, according to McKinsey’s Global AI Survey,, and Excel remains the most widely used data tool in business. Yet most people still build spreadsheets the hard way, manually typing formulas, cleaning data by hand, and formatting cells one by one. Microsoft’s built-in Copilot […]