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This year’s Microsoft Excel World Championship was the wildest yet — so who came out on top in the annual spreadsheet super-battle?

Excel continues to grow as a popular esport The Microsoft Excel World Championship’s (MEWC) inaugural Landmark Battle took place on the weekend of July 11th, 2026 Four competitors went to cell-to-cell, but there was only one winner The Microsoft Excel World Championship’s (MEWC) inaugural Landmark Battle has declared its first winner, Ireland’s Diarmuid Early, who […]

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The agent evaluation gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a reality-alignment problem, not a coverage problem — and most are shipping to production anyway

Across 157 enterprises, organizations are granting AI agents more autonomy while trusting the evaluations meant to gate that autonomy less. Half have already shipped an agent that passed their internal evaluations and then failed a customer in production; only one in twenty fully trusts automated evaluation today; and the most-cited weakness is that evaluations do […]

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Amazon AGI director says AI agent reliability, not capability, is blocking enterprise deployment at VB Transform 2026

The enterprise AI industry has a math problem. Cisco data shows 85% of enterprises are piloting AI agents, but only 5% have shipped them to production. At VB Transform 2026 on Tuesday, Bryan Silverthorn, Director of AGI Autonomy at Amazon, explained why that gap persists — and why the answer isn’t better benchmarks. Silverthorn, who […]

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‘Everyone else is selling parts — we’re selling the full end-to-end system’: Microsoft is allegedly telling its salespeople to take the fight to OpenAI and Anthropic

Microsoft sees itself as cheaper and more effective at bundling the full stack The company is clearly pushing its own internal models Claude also slated for being slower and less accurate Microsoft is reportedly teaching sales workers how to compare the company’s AI offerings to rival companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. Per Bloomberg reporting, the […]