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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 🏆"
" "
"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."
" "
"Coaching isn't a silver bullet but my gosh it is fun when someone is listening and ready to dance 💃🏼"
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"--"
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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."
" "
"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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"--"
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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."
" "
"I think my Link game is strong and I learned tonnes this morning."
" "
"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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"--"
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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.

Learning just leveled up: from now through October 31st, eligible college + university students can claim extra access to Copilot Podcasts, Deep Research, and Vision through a Microsoft 365 Personal subscription, free for 12 months.

Whether you’re confused by calc or researching the Renaissance, Copilot is here to coach, help, and explain. Just a question away.

One year, one free subscription, countless lightbulb moments 💡

Redeem (and read all the legal stuff) here: https://lnkd.in/e2e9eN67

AI Economics depends on efficient token factories and highly performant agent frameworks that deliver enterprise outcomes!  
 
That is why we are excited about Microsoft Agent Framework. You can now build, orchestrate, and scale multi-agent systems in Azure AI Foundry using this framework.  
 
It brings together our best-in-class runtime from AutoGen with the enterprise foundations of Semantic Kernel, with compliance, observability, and deep integration out of the box. 

Can’t wait to see what you build! https://lnkd.in/g34DPfb3

I finished Matt Lerner's Growth Levers over the weekend 📖"
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"It was a short, punchy and rewarding read."
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"I enjoyed the clarifying frames:"
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"- What's your north star metric?"
"- What are the key drivers?"
"- What can you do as a minimum viable test to push towards these?"
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"Forcing yourself to hypothesise with a number was also killer - "I expect X to happen when when we do Y because Z""
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"Then do the test, see what happens, and LEARN it."
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"Because in the early days - the reality is you're not going to be doing anything well so you may as well learn so you can do it better."
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"Highly recommend it for founders and teams."
" "
"I even graphed up my own growth model to stick with over the next few months."
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"--"
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"I'm Marshy - I coach early founders and business owners on growth."
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"This also means I need to keep growing and learning too 😉"
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"#startup #growth

Today marks a new chapter for defenders everywhere. With the evolution of Microsoft Sentinel into a unified, AI-ready security platform and the launch of a no-code agent builder in Security Copilot, Microsoft is empowering organizations to secure and govern their AI platforms, apps, and agents—at scale and with confidence. 
 
In this new era of “Frontier Firms,” AI is not just a tool; it is an active partner in our work. At the same time, security remains the foundation on which all innovation must be built. With these new capabilities, organizations are empowered to embrace agentic AI securely, proactively, and efficiently. 
 
I’m excited to see the impact this will have across organizations and teams. 💜

Learn more about today’s announcements here: https://lnkd.in/gUGywBqu

Happy 40th, Excel! =REPT("🎉",40)

From unlocking population-scale number-sense to now ushering in a new era of analysis-sense with AI, it’s impossible to imagine my work—or the world—without it.

Check out our new 5 Day AI challenge. Great opportunity to learn by doing!

Vibe work is here with Agent Mode in M365 Copilot. Copilot now orchestrates multi-step tasks to help you deliver high-quality docs, spreadsheets, or PPTs. 
 
Here's a great example of Agent Mode in Excel in action. Tell it what you're trying to achieve, and Copilot generates outputs, checks results, fixes issues, iterates, and verifies all of it.

Our new Office Agent turns just a few words into a PowerPoint or Word doc, with deep research and reasoning. Here’s an example:

Four decades in, some things never change …  
Then and now.

This is a big step in making it easier for customers to discover and deploy apps and agents across the Microsoft Cloud.