Claude in Excel, WebMCP, and is Tim Cooking or is Tim Cooked?

The AI Lab by Philipp D. Dubach · 15:23

Claude Sonnet 4.6 beats Opus on financial benchmarks, MCP connectors bring live data into Excel, Google and Microsoft propose WebMCP, and an NBER study finds 80% of firms see zero AI productivity gains.

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