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Former Microsoft execs launch AI agents to end Excel-led finance

Despite millions spent on financial software, many finance teams still rely on Excel to close their books and reconcile numbers while preparing them for audit. Two former Microsoft executives view it as a problem – and they have started Maximor to replace spreadsheets with AI agents for the grunt work finance teams perform. Excel spreadsheets are everywhere in finance. Even with dedicated…
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Spotify to label AI music, filter spam and more in AI policy change

Spotify on Thursday announced a series of updates to its AI policy, designed to better indicate when AI is being used to make music, to cut down on spam, and to make it clearer that unauthorized voice clones are not permitted on its service. The company says it will adopt an upcoming industry standard for identifying and labeling AI music in credits, known as DDEX, and will soon roll out a new…
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Google makes real-world data more accessible to AI - and training pipelines will love it

Google is turning its vast public data trove into a goldmine for AI with the debut of the Data Commons Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server – enabling developers, data scientists, and AI agents to access real-world statistics using natural language and better train AI systems. Launched in 2018, Google’s Data Commons organizes public datasets from a range of sources, including government…
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