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Happy Friday fuckers!"
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"Do you know what's better than taking yourself seriously?"
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"Taking yourself SERIOUSLY."
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"Above snap is from 2020 - I popped it up as my LinkedIn banner for a while."
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"Below snap is TODAY - where I'm still a business man."
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"Why is there a tennis racquet?"
"Do I know I'm not actually talking to anyone?"
"Did 2020 Marshy understand what was ahead of him?"
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"Game, set, match - have a great weekend and keep LinkedWINNING."
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"👋

10 PRINT "ANTHROPIC + MICROSOFT + NVIDIA = MORE COMPUTE, COGNITION, AND CHOICE."

I’ve been thinking a lot about what the net benefit of the AI platform wave is. The real question is how to empower every company out there to get more out of this platform shift and build their own AI native capabilities and enterprise value (vs inadvertently just transfer their unique value to the tech sector!!). Here's what I have been reflecting on.

Happy Friday fuckers 😁"
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"Do you know what's missing in my life?"
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"Meaty projects."
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"I've got space for 1-2 thorny problems that need to be solved over the next 3-6 months."
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"What's a thorny problem?"
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"They sound like this:"
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""I can't get the marketing function going for my startup/scaleup or non-profit. I just need someone to come in with an outside lens, make some recommendations, and then execute it back to performing.""
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""Our agency team is in a shambles. They need some love and are getting beaten up by clients. We need someone who can block and tackle, repair the relationships, and to protect our brilliant but underloved team from all the BS.""
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""We can't figure this out. It's so hard to solve this problem and it needs an outsider who thinks differently, has a digital/multi-hyphenate skill-set, and just gets shit done.""
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"If you're reading these quotes and can hear someone's voice as you're reading it."
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"I want the NAME of that person."
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"I don't need warm intros, referrals, or kickbacks for sending work your way or mine..."
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"I can sniff out opportunities with someone's first name and a "hunch"."
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"I just want to do good work for a team that needs help and is okay with me making it temporary and leaving them in much better shape than when I started with them."
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"Sound good?"
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"I sure bloody hope so."
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"Because I LOVE working with all my smaller coaching and accelerator clients but this omnivore needs some MEAT."
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"Chomp, chomp, CHOMP 🍗"
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"*with full respect to my vegan homies. I love what you're about and this is just a chunky meataphor"
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"📸 from earlier this week from one of my personal trainers (and mouths to feed) who is whispering in my ear - "work harder Dad" while in the foreground is a square that captures bird crap from a nest (outside of picture)

Big shout-out to Louise Gilbert who released her book - Make Work Work For You."
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"We connected last year and I've been impressed with how she's grown her business, engaged her clients, and done it in an authentic way."
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"You should totally buy her book (or sample the free chapters if you're on the fence)."
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"I wasn't put up to this - I just love seeing non-male business owners kick arse."
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"Keep kicking! 🥷🏾"
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"👏

Today we announced our new Fairwater datacenter in Atlanta, connected with our first Fairwater site in Wisconsin and our broader Azure footprint to create the world’s first AI superfactory.

Fairwater exemplifies our vision for a fungible fleet: infra that can serve any workload, anywhere, on fit-for-purpose accelerators and network paths, with maximum performance and efficiency.

AI workloads have evolved beyond large-scale pre-training. Today, they encompass fine-tuning, reinforcement learning (RL), synthetic data generation, evaluation pipelines, and more. Fairwater is built to support this full lifecycle:

Max density: Fairwater’s two-story design and liquid cooling system lets us place racks in three dimensions and pack them with GPUs as densely as possible, minimizing cable runs and improving latency and effective bandwidth.

Fleet: Each Fairwater DC can integrate hundreds of thousands of the latest NVIDIA GPUs into a single coherent cluster. This provides flexible infra that can support the full spectrum of workloads, and ensure no GPU is left unnecessarily idle.

And that’s on top of the more than 100,000 GB300s coming online this quarter alone for inference across the rest of our fleet. For us, it’s all about turning every gigawatt into the maximum number of useful tokens. Not every GW is created equal!

Planet-scale: Every Fairwater DC will connect through our continent-spanning AI WAN to prior generations of AI supercomputers, forming a truly fungible pool of compute. This enables developers to scale beyond the capacity of a single site and dynamically land workloads on the right infra for their needs.

Together, these innovations let us bring together different generations of silicon and AI systems across DCs and geos into a single elastic system that scales seamlessly across training and inference workloads

And this elastic AI capacity is all available alongside all the other cloud services (compute, storage, databases, app services) that AI agents and workloads need.

This is what we mean when we talk about building a fungible fleet – a single, unified platform that pushes the limits of performance per watt and per dollar.

Read more: https://lnkd.in/e82Dm2jQ

Things I'm grateful for this week:"
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"1. We got a fence put around the backyard. The backyard backs onto horses grazing, so now the boys can roam without the fear of copping a swift kick from a nag 🐴"
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"2. Basketball being back on this week. I hate bye weeks. It turns out my form does too. I missed 2 free throws with under a minute to go and we lost by 1 point 😥"
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"3. My partner Georgie - things have been quieter on the project front over the last few months and she's been very supportive."
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"I'm looking forward to Eltham Festival tomorrow and taking our boys for a run."
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"Have a great weekend 🫶🏻"
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"📸 if you squint you can see the start of the fence in the bottom left corner 🤣

Here’s a question that’s not getting the attention it deserves: what kind of AI does the world really want? I think it's probably the most important question of our time. For several years now, progress has been phenomenal. If AGI is often seen as the point at which an AI can match human performance at all tasks, then superintelligence is when it can go far beyond that performance.
 
Instead of endlessly debating capabilities or timing, it's time to think hard about the purpose of technology, what we want from it, what its limitations should be, and how we’re going to ensure this incredible tech always benefits humanity.
 
At Microsoft AI, we’re working towards Humanist Superintelligence (HSI): incredibly advanced AI capabilities that always work for, in service of, people and humanity more generally. We think of it as systems that are problem-oriented and tend towards the domain specific. Not an unbounded and unlimited entity with high degrees of autonomy – but AI that is carefully calibrated, contextualized, within limits.
 
To do this we have formed the MAI Superintelligence Team, led by me as part of Microsoft AI. We want it to be the world’s best place to research and build AI, bar none. We are doing this to solve real concrete problems and do it in such a way that it remains grounded and controllable. We are not building an ill-defined and ethereal superintelligence; we are building a practical technology explicitly designed only to serve humanity.
 
Our recent work demonstrates the value of this narrower form of domain specific superintelligence. The New England Journal of Medicine includes a Case Challenge in every issue – a list of symptoms and a patient to diagnose. It’s fiendishly difficult even for domain experts, let alone the average doctor. Our orchestrator, MAI-DxO, managed to reach 85% across the Case Challenges. Human doctors max out at about 20%, and need to order many more expensive tests. In our view both clinicians and patients alike would welcome the extra support. This work just hints at the potential to revolutionize healthcare. (More here: https://lnkd.in/eSZ8m6T8)
 
Superintelligence could be the best invention ever – but only if it puts the interests of humans above everything else. Only if it’s in service to humanity. Ultimately what HSI requires is an industry shift in approach. Are those building AI optimizing for AI or for humanity, and who gets to judge?
 
At Microsoft AI, we believe humans matter more than AI. We want to build AI that deeply reflects our wider mission to empower every person on the planet.  
 
Humanist, applied - this is the superintelligence I believe the world wants. It’s the superintelligence I want to build. And it’s what we’re going to build on MAI’s Superintelligence Team.
 
More on the MAI blog this morning: https://lnkd.in/edFGgg6K

If I was a founder selling to smaller B2Bs today, here's some things I would do to sell more:"
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"1. Email follow-up to first customers upon sale and/or delivery"
"  - We appreciate your business a lot"
"  - We're a new business that wants to do more of this kind of work"
"  - Let us know if there's similar businesses you know that could benefit from this"
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"2. Connect with existing customers on LinkedIn - personalised note thanking them again and staying in touch"
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"3. Posting about a customer problem you solved on LinkedIn - once a week - thank people for engaging with the post, connect with any new connections and ask them what they're working on"
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"4. Look at the companies you've helped:"
"  - what employee headcount are they"
"  - What industry? "
"  - What locality? "
"  - Who were your champions in that business and what was their job title? "
"  - Who were the decision makers in that business and what was their job title?"
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"5. Sign-up for LinkedIn Sales Navigator (trial it first if you can to help cashflow). And look for: "
"  - Companies matching your previous customers"
"  - Job titles matching your previous customers (champions)"
"  - Job titles matching your previous decision makers"
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"6. Send 10-20 connection requests p.d. "
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"7. Thank new connections for connecting, state you solved X for Y (similar company - don't name them unless they're happy being a case study). And ask if they want more info."
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"8. Send more info in the form of:"
"  - One-sheeter as an anonymised case study"
"  - Screen recording of your solution and how it helped solve problem"
"  - Checklist of what you worked through"
"  - Capability statement and how it solved for X"
"   - ^^^ all of these are lead magnets - the more useful you can make it the better - keep finding ways to create things that help without you "jumping on a call""
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"9. Follow-up and ask if this is a problem for them - if not (dig for more info about how they think about it) and if so - ask if they'd like it solved"
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"It's time consuming, outside of your comfort zone, and works."
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"Even if you're not getting bites - you're going to get better at the cadence of stating the problem and what you solve and repeat."
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"This is SO valuable. "
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"Founders that thrive get this intuitively."
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"Founders that lose sight of this end up creating a bloated and over-hyped technology company that's doomed to fail."
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"Reps get wins."
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"📸 from me noodling on growth on a video with the Inhouse Ventures team"
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"I'm Marshy and coach founders through lead gen and growth by helping them focus on actions that have impact."
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"If you want me to walk you through how an approach can work for your startup drop a comment "like its hot" 🔥

Don't you just love it when things click 🎚️"
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"I introduced Ganesha Param to Dale a while ago."
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"He was looking for a business coach and I thought Dale would be a good fit because I've been working with him for a long time and think his story is awesome."
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"He's recently appeared on Gan's podcast - Peak Performance Hacks and I highly recommend giving it a listen 🎧"
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"The best part?"
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"Dale does his thing behind the scenes."
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"He's built 5 (and now building Sequoia Project) and an investment group through uncanny and unwavering focus on systems, consistency, and pattern recognition."
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"You can't find much about him online (by design) and so I'm pretty chuffed to see him pop his head up a bit as he looks to help more founders and business owners build a life on their terms."
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"Every week we chat and the blunt and direct simplicity is like a blast of clarity through the complications my brain throws up each time."
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"--"
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"Normally I plug what I do here but if you want to see if you're a fit for working with Dale I can put you in touch 🤙🏼

Agents will keep joining and adapting at work — some may become double agents. With proper controls, we can protect ourselves. Read Microsoft Security EVP Charlie Bell's blog on how leaders can secure the new world of AI agents. https://msft.it/6044tyB9n

I’ve been using Voice in M365 Copilot every day, and it’s one of those features that quickly becomes indispensable at work. Excited for customers to try it out now.

1.1M tokens/sec on just one rack of GB300 GPUs in our Azure fleet. An industry record made possible by our longstanding co-innovation with NVIDIA and expertise of running AI at production scale! https://lnkd.in/g_Sc5DPj

Every Friday as an account coordinator at Zenith Optimedia in Sydney I would walk into the office."
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"I’d hit the digital department, which in 2008 was about 15-25 people."
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"And I would shout “happy Friday fuckers!”"
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"It was my thing."
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"You can’t do that with AI or WFH as it doesn’t have quite the same effect."
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"It was gratifying being one of the most junior people on the floor and shouting such a rousing end of week call-to-arms."
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"Then near the end of the day we’d nick the stationery cupboard keys and raid the cupboards for bags of potato chips."
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"May your Friday be splendid 🍻(<- alc-free for me of course)"
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"📸 from the office this week

We're taking the next big step with Researcher.

With Computer Use, it can securely browse the open and gated web to find hard-to-locate information—even across hundreds of sites—and handle multi-step tasks to uncover insights, take action, and create richer reports.

Artificial intelligence is spreading faster than any technology in history. Yet today’s map shows a clear divide. Microsoft’s AI Economy Institute’s new AI Diffusion Report assesses where the world stands today, while laying out the steps to expand access, build skills, and make AI work for every language and community.

Read the report: https://lnkd.in/etJFwKHs

Just wrapped our earnings call and wanted to share a few highlights from the quarter.

Bottom line: We’ve got great momentum across our AI platform and our family of Copilots, fueling our increasing investments in both capital and talent.

We’re building a planet-scale cloud and AI factory.

We’ll increase our AI capacity by 80% this year, and nearly double our DC footprint over the next two.

That includes Fairwater in Wisconsin, the world’s most powerful AI datacenter, which will scale to two gigawatts alone.

We are building a fungible fleet that spans every stage of the AI lifecycle and is constantly optimized to deliver the best ROI and TCO for us and our customers.

One example: during the quarter, we increased the token throughput for GPT-4.1 and GPT-5 by more than 30% per GPU.

Our family of Copilots and agents also surpassed over 150 million monthly active users across high value domains:

• Information work: 90 percent of the F500 now use Microsoft 365 Copilot – and we’re shipping updates very fast
• Coding: GitHub Copilot now has 26 million-plus users
• Security: 36+ agents integrated across Entra, Defender, Purview, Intune
• Science & Health: We helped document 17 million-plus patient encounters, up 5X year over year
• Consumer: Tons of new capabilities announced over the past two weeks, from Groups and Mico in Copilot, to "Hey Copilot" in Windows

And this week, we signed a new agreement with OpenAI, a milestone for both companies.

It’s been an incredible investment, with nearly 10X return and no carry. All the value goes straight to shareholders.

Another thing I feel super proud about is that Microsoft is now behind two of the largest nonprofits in the world!

You can read more about our results here: https://lnkd.in/gxtVeMk2

Welcome to your Agent HQ 📍Orchestrate any agent, any time, anywhere.

Coding agents from Claude, OpenAI, Cognition, Google, xAI and more will become available in GitHub as part of your paid Copilot subscription. https://lnkd.in/g3q7sM7M

Great to be back at GitHub Universe today!

Thanks for the conversation, Jared Palmer and Mario Rodriguez. Nothing beats the energy of being surrounded by people building the future of software.

Super fun conversation with Jordi Hays and John Coogan. Thanks for bringing TBPN to GitHub Universe. Work's not done!

I love how easy it’s becoming to learn on the go with podcasts in Copilot.

I turned GitHub’s latest Octoverse report into a 5-minute pod — short, smart, and snappy. Packed with info on the seismic shifts happening in how people build software. Check it out!

Super energized about this! With App Builder and Workflow, you can now build apps and automate workflows in minutes, right in M365 Copilot chat. Here's an example.

We’re continuing to make Copilot even more helpful in the everyday flow of work. Teams Mode lets groups co‑create with Copilot in a Teams chat. Watch how it works:

So many new Copilot updates this month. Here are some I can't stop using.

A big shout-out to Simone - one of my clients through the Melbourne Innovation Centre Digital Solutions program."
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"Simone runs Kitchen Language."
"It's a website that sells sweary merchandise."
"Think F bombs, and C bombs, cooking aprons, and stubby holders."
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"She recently got a shoutout on Kate Langbroek's new podcast but what I love the most is that Simone shared her marketing challenges, listened and asked questions, but then went and applied it at FOUNDER-LEVEL PACE."
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"Achievement unlocked 🏆"
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"Here's how we got there:"
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"-- Simone shared that expos with a lot of her target market are the best-performing channel (e.g. Meat + BBQ expo) - she can do a comfortable 5-figures on a weekend"
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"-- But the prep, pack up/down, travel and full days are laborious"
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"-- Because she knows her target market so well - I pointed out that you could find these people on podcasts as well"
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"-- Why not introduce something like... the podcaster potty mouth of the week? "
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"-- Award it to sweary up and coming podcasters, send some merch, and see if you pick up any traction?"
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"So Simone ran with it and landed the play - with her product being spoken about for 2.5 minutes on a syndicated podcast with a strong radio personality."
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"Coaching isn't a silver bullet but my gosh it is fun when someone is listening and ready to dance 💃🏼"
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"I'm Marshy and coach early startups through growth."
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"Curious?"
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"I'm looking for 3 startups that rely on leads, can complete a form, and want to get a quick win with no extra charges or costs."
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"DM me.

With Groups, Copilot goes multiplayer! You can now collaborate in real time with your team + Copilot to brainstorm, co-write, plan, or study together. One of my favorite new features ...

What I love about the updates we’re making to Copilot Mode in Edge today is how it meets you right where you left off across all your tabs, helping you pick up the thread, and even completing multi-step actions for you. Take a look.

Clippy is back!!

Hitting the pavement HARD this week with 3 days in the big smoke."
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"It’s good to be pushing now though as we all know silly season isn’t too far off."
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"Shoutout to Ryan Burns and Vicki Stirling for The Startup Network partnership event last week."
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"I was past pokeman age when it was a thing, but I bloody love my Pokemon card."
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"Gotta catch them all 🐉"
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"—"
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"I’m Marshy and coach early-stage founders through growth."
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"What this looks like in practice: "
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"listening, empathising, cajoling, encouraging, and sharing moves 🕺

Hey early business owner - don't talk like a "brand" - it just sounds stupid."
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"Example:"
"EP Weiderling & Schmidt can execute this for you."
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"Better:"
"Yes I can take care of that for you."
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"It's tempting to "think like a brand" when you're starting out."
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"You don't need to."
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"All it does as a founder is alienate you from talking to more customers."
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"Just talk to customers."
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"Of course, there are exceptions to the rule."
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"For example if you're a GROUP GROUP just keep doing what 🙌 Garry Williams is doing."
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"📸 from the weekend when my sister started hitting the group chat with nonsense"
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"I'm Marshy and coach early business founders through growth."
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"I do this by simplifying sales, marketing, + tech and making it horribly easy to execute."
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"Horribly easy."
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"It's actually disgusting how easy I make it for you."
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"DISGUSTING.

Today, I shared my annual letter to shareholders, which is linked below.

It's amazing to reflect that 50 years after our founding, Microsoft is once again in the thick of a generational shift in technology. AI is radically changing every layer of the tech stack, and we're changing with it.

Thank you for being part of our journey to shape a future that empowers us all.

Hey Copilot! Show everyone how we’re transforming how you interact with your Windows PC — so you can talk naturally, it can see what you see, and take action on your behalf.

No question that nurses are the heartbeat of healthcare. And today we’re introducing the first commercially available ambient experience built for nursing workflows, so they can focus on what matters most: caring for patients.

🍉"
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"I've been looking for a day warm enough to rock this 👔"
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"Thanks Melbourne."
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"I've created a F2F Thursday scheduler in my calendar."
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"If you're Melbourne-based and want to drop time in to hit me up during my city side-quests just let me know and I'll send you the deets."
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"👌"
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"Side-note: my Mum made me this shirt and I think I just got her a new customer today 🤣

Introducing a new open source benchmarking tool to measure AI for cybersecurity, grounded in real world scenarios. This is important work as we evaluate how well AI systems can reason to protect against cyberattacks.

Read the blog: https://lnkd.in/g4cTWH-m

And here's the GitHub repo: https://lnkd.in/g5vtSc5J

Let's go, M's!

This is super useful! With new Formula Completions in Excel, just type "=" and Copilot proactively suggests a formula, based on the context of your sheet. Here's a great example:

We've been hard at work advancing M365 Copilot, and so have our many partners who are building agents that integrate with Copilot and Teams to transform how work gets done. Check out a few great examples:

Life felt very different in October 2005."
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"It was a few months after my intensive mental health care."
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"I moved back in with Mum and shared a room with my poor teenage sister."
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"I did appointments, some peer group work, and got visits from a support nurse."
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"Eventually I got the first of many temporary jobs."
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"This went on for 18 months with roles in call centres, an insurance broker, the tennis, the State Library, and a university."
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"Some roles ran their course, others I got fired from, and each time I learned a bit more about recovering with complex mental health with the lessons usually different flavours of bitter."
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"I couldn’t function well until I moved to a newer medication and that’s when I got my first permanent job in media in Sydney."
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"My career skyrocketed and here I am today."
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"And it’s a big day."
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"This morning, I’ll be representing SANE as a peer ambassador and board member sharing a tiny piece of my lived experience story at Parliament House."
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"We’re celebrating 10 years of digital innovation in mental health."
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"SANE has been working tirelessly for over 40 years helping people like me."
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"The most exciting part about this is the increased access of their online guided services program."
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"Anyone with complex mental health can access where they are."
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"They don’t need a referral and they can get support from a counsellor or peer support worker to help them navigate life for when they’re not touching the medical system."
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"This is REALLY important:"
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"The medical system kept me alive."
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"But it’s learning how to navigate life stuff that enabled me to recover and THRIVE."
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"SANE’s program is shifting the needle for people in recovery by offering psychosocial support that is CHANGING the lives of hundreds of people."
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"That’s not a vague result."
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"That’s empirically validated data independently assessed by a university."
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"With demonstrable change shown on clinical indicators like the K10."
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"This is mind-blowing."
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"But it’s one of Australia’s best kept secrets."
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"So excuse us while we try and take this information to our nation’s decision makers and share this fact bomb on World Mental Health Day."
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"It’s been 20 years since some of the worst moments in my life and I would have LOVED an online support team to get life back on track."
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"My hope is that far more people going through similar don’t have to get back on track without additional help."
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"We see you, and we’re fighting for you ❤️"
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"📸 from that era, I did have hair once upon a time and one of the unfortunate side effects of my meds was extreme hunger and weight gain

Another first for our AI fleet ... a supercomputing cluster of NVIDIA GB300s with 4600+ GPUs and featuring next gen InfiniBand.

First of many as we scale to hundreds of thousands of GB300s across our DCs, and rethink every layer of the stack across silicon, systems, and software to support next gen AI workloads.

Some background & discussion on the Paraphrase Project, just published in Science. Behind-the-scenes on the project, including a podcast episode I was invited to host, featuring reflections from several members of the team—Bruce Wittmann, Tessa Alexanian & James Diggans. And I’ve shared my thoughts on the disclosure dilemma in a blog post linked here.

Full paper available here: https://aka.ms/AAy5e9c

Big news from DevDay: the latest OpenAI models are now live in Azure AI Foundry. GPT-5-Pro raises the bar on reasoning and safety, GPT-Image-1-mini brings fast and efficient image generation, and the new GPT-real time-mini and GPT-audio-mini unlock real-time voice and audio experiences at scale.

Together with the Microsoft Agent Framework and new Responsible AI features announced last week, Foundry now puts the full spectrum of AI from text, vision, and audio into the hands of every developer.

The toolbox just got multimodal, and I can't wait to see what you build!

I smashed it this week and have lots to be grateful for."
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"✅ 2 new clients"
"📏 Updated business metrics and where to focus"
"📹 Upping the video reps and punching out Instas and YouTubes"
"📧 Relaunched newsletter with Early Growth School and it feels fuggin good"
"🏡 Family is settled into our new space and sleeping well again"
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"I had a great chat with my coach this week too - "you're right where you need to be Lukey Dukes"."
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"I use that nickname ironically ONCE and its stuck 🥊"
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"But more importantly I feel like I am too."
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"Have a great weekend 👋"
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"I'm Marshy and coach early tech founders through growth with proven playbooks, hand-holding, and unlimited support.

Supercharged past few weeks as we push the bounds of model-forward innovation across Microsoft 365. A few highlights.

Super to see re Agent Mode: “It really does do something new: it makes Excel feel less like a tool you command and more like a partner you work with.”

https://lnkd.in/guStvdkv

"This guy's LinkedIn profile is optimised to the hilt - here comes the instant pitch...""
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"This is what I thought when I accepted Prosper Taruvinga's connection request back in May."
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"So it's a bit of a jump to see him F2F and presenting about LinkedIn at the BNI Business Elite in Epping this morning."
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"But how did we get here?"
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"I've been working on letting go assumptions that are judgments in disguise."
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"Doing this means I've learned more about:"
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"- A young marketing professional who slays on TikTok (thanks The Startup Network)"
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"- Accelerated go-to-market strategy from a turbo marketing ideas machine who speaks like a dude (thanks Cody Schneider)"
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"- How to think about LinkedIn from a far more deliberate perspective (thanks to Prosper - see below)"
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"So here's the knowledge he dropped about LinkedIn profiles this morning:"
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"1. You've got a career/business headline - create easy ways for people seeing you to ask more."
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"2. Make the most of the real estate - your banner is above the fold and you can optimise it towards what you can do for the person viewing."
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"3. Add your website or better yet, link to a call-to-action (CTA)"
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"4. Use language that helps people self-select in or out with prompts and questions - are you....?, frustrated by..., X who desire Y etc."
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"5. Give people an excuse to scroll down below the fold (past your banner, headshot, and links)."
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"6. This also makes you referrable - not everyone who views your page is your customer, but everyone who views your page should get what you do in a heartbeat (who may refer too)."
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"7. Use the about section to share an outline of the steps and what you can do for them - like a movie trailer (get to da chopper!! 😎)"
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"8. Your featured section can be updated regularly, with rotating offers/posts."
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"9. When you engage with "influencers" this will lead people to your page as well - which makes all of the above work harder."
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"10. So does including client results/social proof such as recommendations."
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"11. So ask your clients to recommend you on the platform - simples."
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"I think my Link game is strong and I learned tonnes this morning."
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"I'm glad I got out of bed early and made the drive over - but won't make it a regular thing as I love the morning routine with my boys."
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"📸 obligatory snap with Prosper as I think it's just weird writing this without the selfie and didn't want to take a snap during the BNI meeting as I'm sure that's against cult policy"
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"I'm Marshy and coach early-stage founders on growth by coaching them through step-by-step playbooks on how to find their next large customers.

Friday evening reflection: Adjusting my cloud infra priors for the AI era… a colleague just shared the progress we are making with our AI WAN. In one project, we expanded our North American optical fiber footprint by 40% and added network capacity equal to one-fifth of our entire global network - a network that took 15 years to build now takes months!

Copilot+ PCs are ushering in a new era of intelligent computing, powered by NPU’s that run at 40+ TOPS. This makes possible advanced A.I. features and smarter search, all running locally on your device.

https://lnkd.in/gMmA9Bra

Published today in Science Magazine: a landmark study led by Microsoft scientists with partners, showing how AI-powered protein design could be misused—and presenting first-of-its-kind red teaming & mitigations to strengthen biosecurity in the age of AI.

Super critical research for AI safety and security. https://lnkd.in/gc9tD2vX

Our approach to AI infra is simple: build the most fungible and flexible fleet to meet the real world's needs across inference and training as Scott Guthrie shared with Alex Kantrowitz.

And we are already doing it at scale today, as we power the biggest AI workloads like Copilot and ChatGPT, APIs that power 3P products & enterprise workloads and high scale training.