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Fable 5 is Back, Claude's CEO Has a Warning, and Tips to Prompt Better
Artificial Intelligence
Mehul Thakkar

Fable 5 is Back, Claude’s CEO Has a Warning, and Tips to Prompt Better

Governments are now deciding who gets access to the most powerful AI. One model was forced offline for three weeks, then brought back. A new OpenAI model launched gated behind a government review process. A study revealed most AI chatbots lean politically in one direction. And a developer built a PlayStation 1 game engine using Claude as his co-engineer. This was not a quiet week in AI.

July 6, 2026 10:30 am
7 AI Stories From June 2026 That You Should Know About
Artificial Intelligence
Mehul Thakkar

7 AI Stories From June 2026 That You Should Know About

June 2026 is one of the busiest months in AI since ChatGPT launched. A new chip. A new way to work with AI in Slack. A government ban that 100 security experts are fighting back against. And a Harvard study that changes how you should be using AI every day. Here is what happened and why it matters for your work.

June 29, 2026 10:38 am
Power BI June 2026 Updates That Actually Matter
Power BI
Mehul Thakkar

Power BI June 2026 Updates That Actually Matter

You publish a report with a date slicer set to last month. A week later a colleague opens it and updates it manually. Then someone else does the same. Every month, the same report gets manually updated by multiple people who assume someone else already did it.

That problem has a fix in this month’s update. So does a long list of other genuinely useful things.

June 22, 2026 10:00 am
Anthropic: The Most Unlikely Comeback Story in the History of AI
Artificial Intelligence
Mehul Thakkar

Anthropic: The Most Unlikely Comeback Story in the History of AI

In January 2024, OpenAI was generating $2 billion in annual revenue. Anthropic was a rounding error at a reported $87 million. ChatGPT had hundreds of millions of users. Claude had almost none. By April 2026, the lines crossed. Anthropic hit a reported $47 billion run rate while OpenAI sat at a reported $25 billion, with 30 times fewer users.

This is the story of how that happened.

June 15, 2026 10:00 am
Are You Using AI in Excel or Is AI Using You?
Microsoft Excel
Mehul Thakkar

Are You Using AI in Excel or Is AI Using You?

Everyone is telling Excel users to stop learning formulas and let AI write them instead. That advice works until the AI generates a VLOOKUP when you needed an INDEX MATCH, uses an absolute reference where you needed a relative one, or builds a formula that technically works but breaks the moment someone adds a row. The people who catch those errors are the ones who know Excel. The ones who do not are the ones who stopped learning it.

June 8, 2026 10:00 am
3 Copilot Updates Excel Users Cannot Afford to Miss
Microsoft Excel
Mehul Thakkar

3 Copilot Updates Excel Users Cannot Afford to Miss

You are reviewing a shared Excel workbook. A colleague made a dozen changes overnight. Some were manual edits. Some were generated by Copilot on their behalf. Scrolling through the file, there is no way to tell which is which.

That changes with one of the three Copilot updates Microsoft released for Excel this month. Here is what each update does.

June 1, 2026 10:00 am
Google announced the biggest change in 25 years
Artificial Intelligence
Mehul Thakkar

Google announced the biggest change in 25 years

For 25 years, searching Google meant typing a few words into a box and choosing from a list of blue links. That experience ended last week. Google announced the biggest change to its search box in over a quarter-century, and the internet will not work the same way again.

May 25, 2026 10:00 am
Microsoft Just Released 9 Power BI Features That Will Change How You Work
Power BI
Mehul Thakkar

Microsoft Just Released 9 Power BI Features That Will Change How You Work

You open a Power BI report and ask Copilot to summarise it. It reads every visual and gives you a concise breakdown of trends, highlights, and notable changes across the entire report. One click. No prompt engineering. No manual interpretation.

That is one of several updates
Microsoft released this month that remove steps professionals have been doing manually for years.

May 18, 2026 10:00 am
Claude Opus 4.7 vs ChatGPT 5.5: Which One Should You Actually Use?
Artificial Intelligence
Mehul Thakkar

Claude Opus 4.7 vs ChatGPT 5.5: Which One Should You Actually Use?

You have already been reading about ChatGPT and Claude on this blog. But in April 2026, both Anthropic and OpenAI released their most powerful models within a week of each other. The question is no longer what each model can do. But which one performs better on the tasks you actually do every day?

May 11, 2026 10:00 am
3 Signs AI Is Already Out of Control
Artificial Intelligence
Mehul Thakkar

3 Signs AI Is Already Out of Control

Anthropic built an AI model and locked it away because it was too dangerous to release. Autonomous agents are already replacing entire startup teams. And over 20% of what you see on YouTube is now low-quality AI-generated content flooding the platform. None of this is a prediction. All three happened in April 2026 alone.

May 4, 2026 10:00 am