The Project management edition
The AI news of that week, in plain language.
This week: minutes that write themselves, a delayed AI law, and a dashboard that can happily lie in green.
Copilot now prepares your briefing, presentation, and Excel by itself
Microsoft Copilot got a more powerful AI model and a feature that handles multi-step tasks on its own.
Since 9 July 2026, Microsoft Copilot runs on the new GPT-5.6 model by default, in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Chat, and Cowork. Copilot Cowork can carry out multi-step work in one go, for example a briefing document, a presentation, and an Excel overview for a client meeting. Also new is "deep citations": you click through from the answer to the source file to check it yourself. Cowork is available for organisations in the Frontier Program.
Background for subscribersUse Cowork for the dull prep work: a first briefing, a draft presentation, a rough Excel overview. That saves you the odd quarter-hour that adds up. But go over the figures and agreements with the deep-citations button before anything goes out. The AI sums up what is in there, not how the project really stands. So check that the underlying data is up to date.
Google Meet turns AI minutes on by default (with three or more participants)
Google Meet gets new settings for automatic AI minutes. For Business Standard and Plus customers, the feature is on by default in meetings with three or more participants; for Enterprise and education, it is off by default. Admins manage this centrally. For end users, the rollout starts no earlier than 21 September 2026.
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