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📊 Anthropic Brings Claude to Excel
🎵 ElevenLabs Drops an AI-Made Album
🎨 Microsoft Adds AI to Paint and Notepad
💸 OpenAI Plans Revenue Share for AI-Driven Discoveries
⚠️ OpenAI Chair Bret Taylor Warns of AI Hype Bubble
🗣️ LiveKit Valued at $1 Billion After OpenAI Partnership
🔍 Google Adds Personal Intelligence to AI Search
🗣️ LiveKit Valued at $1 Billion After OpenAI Partnership
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ANTHROPIC
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Anthropic has broadened access to its Claude AI integration in Microsoft Excel, making powerful spreadsheet-assistance tools available to more subscribers beyond the highest tiers.
The Details:
Claude’s Excel integration, previously limited to Max, Team, and Enterprise plans during its beta, is now available to Pro plan users.
The feature lets Claude work directly inside Microsoft Excel to read, analyze, modify, and create spreadsheets via a sidebar chat interface.
Users can ask Claude to explain formulas, interpret complex models, update assumptions safely while preserving dependencies, and debug errors like #REF! or #VALUE!.
Additional enhancements include support for pivot tables, charts, drag-and-drop file uploads, and safeguards to avoid overwriting data unintentionally.
The integration uses Claude Opus 4.5, Anthropic’s model optimized for analysis and productivity tasks.
Why it matters:
Spreadsheets are still the backbone of business decision-making. By bringing Excel reasoning into Claude, Anthropic is turning its chatbot into a practical work assistant rather than just a text generator. This move also tightens competition with Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT, where real productivity value, not just chat, is becoming the battleground.
ELEVENLABS
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ElevenLabs has released The Eleven Album, its first AI-assisted music project, showing how generative audio tools can be used alongside real artists instead of replacing them.
The Details:
The album was created using ElevenLabs’ music and voice generation models, blending AI composition with human performance.
It features collaborations with well-known artists, including Liza Minnelli and Art Garfunkel, alongside emerging creators.
Artists kept full ownership of their work and receive 100% of streaming revenue, positioning the project as creator-first.
Tracks span multiple genres, from pop and electronic to jazz and experimental sounds.
The album is now available on major streaming platforms like Spotify.
Why it matters:
AI music has been controversial due to copyright and voice cloning concerns. ElevenLabs is trying to reset the narrative by showing a model where AI acts as a creative tool, not a replacement, while artists retain control, credit, and income.
MICROSOFT
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Microsoft is quietly turning its most basic Windows apps into AI-powered tools, bringing creative and productivity upgrades to Paint and Notepad.
The Details:
Paint can now generate colouring book pages from simple text prompts like animals, landscapes, or fantasy scenes.
The AI creates clean black-and-white outlines that can be coloured digitally or printed for offline use.
The feature is currently available to Windows Insider testers and tied to Copilot+ PCs with Microsoft account sign-in.
Notepad is getting smarter formatting, including strikethrough text, nested lists, and a new formatting toolbar.
These updates are part of Microsoft’s broader push to embed Copilot-style AI into everyday Windows apps.
Why it matters:
This shows how AI is moving beyond flashy demos into everyday tools people already use. By upgrading Paint and Notepad, Microsoft is making AI feel practical, familiar, and accessible, while also nudging users toward newer Windows devices where AI features become a key selling point.
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MORE AI & TECH NEWS
Google is now rolling out a new Personal Intelligence feature for AI Pro and Ultra Search users in the U.S. This lets users connect Gmail and Google Photos to get personalized search results. The feature is opt-in, with privacy protections in place. It’s launching under Labs and will appear via invites or settings.
LiveKit, a startup powering real-time voice infrastructure, hit a $1B valuation as it joins hands with OpenAI to enhance voice capabilities. Investors see voice tech as the next AI frontier.
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says OpenAI’s decision to test ads in ChatGPT is risky. Speaking at Davos, he warned ads could erode trust in AI assistants and said Google won’t rush to monetize Gemini this way. He stressed a slower, more thoughtful approach to integrating AI into users’ lives.
OpenAI announced that its API business just crossed $1 billion in annual recurring revenue in a single month. CEO Sam Altman confirmed this milestone as OpenAI shifts focus from consumer ChatGPT to large-scale enterprise deals and outcome-based monetization to cover rising compute costs.
Bret Taylor, OpenAI’s board chair, said current AI market enthusiasm is overheated and likely due for a correction. He expects inflated valuations and hype to level out soon.
Elon Musk’s Grok AI flooded X with explicit images, triggering internal backlash. The wave of unsafe content highlighted the platform’s lack of strong safeguards for AI-generated media.
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