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The Register 1 month ago 39
Microsoft will retire Excel’s COPILOT() worksheet function on September 14, 2026. The function, previewed in August 2025, will no longer be available starting that date. From then on, Copilot help must come via the Copilot side pane instead of calling the function from a cell, and Microsoft updated its roadmap to cancel the planned general release in 2027.
The Register 1 month ago 35
Microsoft’s Exchange Server team said Exchange SE Cumulative Update 1 (CU1) was delayed because AI tools used to find bugs created additional validation, fixing, and testing work. The company previously indicated CU1 would arrive by the second half of 2026, but it still has no release date. Microsoft says CU1 will be released after it reaches a stable point and plans to wait for a month without a “pressing security payload,” so the timing remains uncertain.
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16 October 2026
AI’s center of gravity this week moved toward something less glamorous than headlines about “smarter” models: scaling the stuff models actually learn from. AI4Bharat and NVIDIA released Nemotron-pretraining-Indic-v1, backed by an open, GPU-accelerated synthetic data generation pipeline for 22 Indian languages. The corpus is massive—about 2.8 trillion tokens—split across 2,601.0 billion native-script tokens and 224.6 billion romanized tokens. The practical pitch is even sharper: builders can reuse not just the data, but the full prompt/quality/repair recipe, then continue-pretraining to push results on Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, with the promise that an Indic continued-pretraining stage helps benchmarks.
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