For the past couple of years, workplace AI has mostly looked like this: You ask it a question, and it gives you an answer. Ask it to summarize a document, draft an email or analyze some numbers, and it does its best. Microsoft’s new Copilot Cowork takes that idea...
I can remember this event vividly. It was genuinely frightening at the time. Major parts of the Internet kept going dark, and no one seemed to know why. So while my first instinct is to dismiss today’s doom-and-gloom warnings about AI destroying the world as science...
At home, when we have a question, many of us [raises hand] now choose to ask AI instead of Google. At the same time, AI has created a new workplace habit: whenever we encounter something tedious, confusing or awkwardly composed (by ourselves), we paste it into an AI...
For years, Microsoft 365 was basically a very large toolbox. Need to write something? Word. Work with numbers? Excel. Send an email? Outlook. Manage files? SharePoint. Have a meeting? Teams. Create a presentation nobody will read after the meeting? PowerPoint. Each...
