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/Microsoft /Agents /Productivity

Let's be honest: for all the hype, Microsoft Copilot has mostly been a glorified chatbot with a lot of hope pinned on it. Useful for a quick draft or summary, sure, but hardly the assistant we were promised. That might finally be changing. Microsoft just rolled out Copilot Cowork, and it's the first real step towards Copilot becoming an actual colleague rather than a clever talker.

The difference is simple but big: instead of telling you what you could do, Cowork does the work. You describe a task - "send a recap to my team," "build a deck summarising Q3," "clean up the conflicts on my calendar" - and it goes off and does it across Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Teams, showing you each step and asking permission before anything important actually sends.

If this sounds familiar, it should - it's very similar in spirit to Anthropic's Claude Cowork. The key difference, as far as we're aware, is that Copilot Cowork runs in the cloud rather than on your device. That's actually rather handy: you can hand a task off and let it run while you get on with your day. For the millions of people already living inside Microsoft 365, this is the moment Copilot starts doing real work, not just chatting about it.

/OpenAI /Automation /Skills

Here's the thing about work: we all do the same fiddly tasks over and over. The weekly sales report. The expense claim. That one form nobody remembers the steps for. Turning those into an automated "skill" has always been the smartest way to win back time - but building one usually meant wrestling with prompts or instructions, which is exactly where most of us give up.

OpenAI's new Record & Replay for Codex makes it almost embarrassingly easy. You hit record, do the task once exactly how you normally would, and Codex watches, learns the pattern, and packages it into a reusable skill. Next time you ask it to pull that weekly report, it already knows where to go and what to do - no essay-length instructions required. Even better, the skill it creates is inspectable and editable, so it's not a mysterious black box.

One honest caveat for our readers: it's currently macOS-only, and the initial rollout skips the UK, the EEA and Switzerland. So a chunk of you will be watching this one from the sidelines for now - but it's a strong signal of where everyday automation is heading, and well worth knowing about.

/SpaceX /xAI /Coding

In the largest startup acquisition ever, SpaceX has agreed to buy Cursor - the AI coding tool developers are obsessed with - for a cool $60 billion (roughly R1.1 trillion) in stock. The deal landed just days after SpaceX's record-breaking stock market debut. So why should you care about two American tech giants getting hitched?

Because it's a reminder that AI is more than just a model. xAI - which Elon Musk merged into SpaceX earlier this year - has some genuinely strong models, but its products have never quite been the things people actually love using day to day. Cursor is the opposite: one of the best coding products on the planet, built by one of the best coding teams in the world. Bolt that onto a company that's also sitting on some of the largest compute capacity going right now, and you get a serious new contender.

The practical upshot: more compute means bigger models served faster to customers. After a couple of years where the AI race largely looked like a two-horse contest between OpenAI and Anthropic, SpaceX just bought its way to the front of the grid. Watch this space.

In this section, we aim to spotlight an incredible AI tool or use case and guide you on how you can try it.

We've all sat through a deck that should've been a two-minute video. Google just made fixing that genuinely easy. Google Vids now turns your existing Google Slides into a proper video - complete with an AI avatar presenter or voiceover, in 24 languages. We tried it on an old pitch deck and, honestly, it was really, really good. And the best part: it's free to try.

Don't believe us? Try it yourself…

Pro tip: Free personal accounts get 10 video generations a month, so save them for the decks that really matter - a client pitch, an onboarding explainer, or that internal update you're tired of presenting in five different time zones.

In this section, we're spotlighting real businesses using AI to solve actual problems.

Some of you have used Midjourney, the platform famous for generating gorgeous AI images and videos. Well, this week Midjourney pulled off the wildest pivot we've seen in the AI race so far: it's going into medicine.

Meet Midjourney Medical and the Midjourney Scanner - a full-body scan that the company says takes just 60 seconds. Instead of the giant magnets and tight tubes of an MRI, you step into a shallow pool of warm, golden-lit water and gently descend through a ring of sensors. Those sensors fire ultrasonic sound waves through your body from every angle - a bit like how a dolphin uses echolocation - and AI reconstructs the echoes into a detailed 3D map of what's going on inside. It looks a lot like an MRI, Midjourney claims, at nearly a hundred times the speed.

The setting is the strangest part: these scanners are meant to live inside a Midjourney Spa, the first opening in San Francisco in 2027, complete with hot tubs, saunas and cold plunges. The idea is that you'd pop in for a relaxing soak, and the health scan just happens quietly in the background. The grand vision? A fleet of 50,000 scanners doing a billion scans a month, with the company claiming that enough early imaging could one day help the world avoid 30% of deaths and 50% of healthcare costs. Bold stuff.

A dose of healthy skepticism, though: the clever scanning hardware isn't actually Midjourney's own invention - it's licensed from ultrasound chip company Butterfly Network, which Midjourney's splashy announcement neglected to mention. And every diagnostic claim still has to clear FDA approval, which is a long road. It's a genuinely exciting glimpse of cheaper, faster, more frequent health insight - just keep one eyebrow raised until the results (and the regulators) are in.

AI is full of jargon, and we’re here to decode it. Each week, we’ll give you a plain-English definition of a buzzy term you’ve probably seen (but never fully understood).

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