The lowly spreadsheet is getting an agentic AI upgrade. Fundamental Research Labs, an artificial intelligence startup launched out of MIT, has created Shortcut, a system of AI agents that can do multi-step work on Excel, such as creating discounted cash flow models in finance. The...
In the race to infuse artificial intelligence (AI) into every corner of the digital world, Microsoft has set its sights on conquering the final frontier of office productivity: the humble spreadsheet. The tech giant’s latest creation, SpreadsheetLLM, aims to change how businesses crunch numbers and...
Back in 1987, Microsoft released Excel, its spreadsheet program designed to handle all manner of calculations and computations, from simple mathematics to complex probabilistic statements. And in the decades since, the files, the rows, the columns have proliferated by the billions, by the trillions, more...
New findings show the 35-year-old digital spreadsheet is proving to be error prone and costly. A widespread tool, Microsoft’s Excel spreadsheet product is ubiquitous across industries and still widely relied upon by governments, law firms, investment banks, research labs, academic organizations, nonprofits and more, with...
November 30, 2022
New findings show the 35-year-old digital spreadsheet is proving to be error prone and costly. A widespread tool, Microsoft’s Excel spreadsheet product is ubiquitous across industries and still widely relied upon by governments, law firms, investment banks, research labs, academic organizations, nonprofits and more, with a list that goes on to span nearly every organization […]
October 27, 2025
AI startup Anthropic has introduced an expansion of its Claude for Financial Services platform. This update includes an Excel add-in and new connectors to real-time market data and portfolio analytics, as well as new “pre-built Agent Skills” such as building discounted cash flow models and initiating coverage reports, the company wrote in a Monday (Oct. […]
May 31, 2022
Automated personal finance service Tiller now has full support for Excel, with Tiller Money Feeds, the Foundation Template, Daily Account Summary Email, Community and customer support as part of its...
June 16, 2020
Microsoft’s newest frontier may just be your household budgeting process. Microsoft is pushing deeper into personal finance, having just announced the launch in the United States of its new Money...