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Excel already has a built-in web scraper, this is what I use it for

Grabbing data from the internet is much easier when you skip the coding part.

How to perform web scraping at scale

Web scraping is a process that extracts massive amounts of data from websites automatically, with a scraper collecting thousands of data points in a matter of seconds. It grabs the Hypertext Markup ...
The New York Times

Anthropic’s Leaked Code Tests Copyright Challenges in A.I. Era

Artificial intelligence tools are making it faster than ever to reproduce creative work. Does copyright even matter anymore? By Meaghan Tobin Reporting from Taipei, Taiwan Sigrid Jin was waiting to ...
The Daily Northwestern

NU students help D65 5th graders turn Python code into music

Trumpet blares, fading sounds of heartbeats and a ringing alarm clock. These aren’t sound effects for a movie — rather, for music projects created by fifth graders in Evanston/Skokie School District ...
VentureBeat

Intuit compressed months of tax code implementation into hours — and built a workflow any regulated-industry team can adapt

When the One Big Beautiful Bill arrived as a 900-page unstructured document — with no standardized schema, no published IRS forms, and a hard shipping deadline — Intuit's TurboTax team had a question: ...
Business Insider

A 4 a.m. scramble turned Anthropic's leak into a 'workflow revelation'

Coders have had a field day weeding through the treasures in the Claude Code leak. "It has turned into a massive sharing party," said Sigrid Jin, who created the Python edition, Claw Code. Here's how ...
Ars Technica

Entire Claude Code CLI source code leaks thanks to exposed map file

The entire source code for Anthropic’s Claude Code command line interface application (not the models themselves) has been leaked and disseminated, apparently due ...
Engadget

OpenAI is putting ChatGPT, its browser and code generator into one desktop app

OpenAI is developing a "super app" for desktop that unifies ChatGPT, its browser and its Codex app, according to the Wall Street Journal and CNBC. A company spokesperson told the publications that ...
Business Insider

Anthropic pushes Claude into Excel and PowerPoint, escalating AI battle with Microsoft and OpenAI

Anthropic is embedding AI more deeply in popular work software tools. Claude AI now integrates with Excel, PowerPoint, and Slack, enhancing enterprise productivity. Anthropic challenges Microsoft, ...
Wired

Code Metal Raises $125 Million to Rewrite the Defense Industry’s Code With AI

Code Metal, a Boston-based startup that uses AI to write code and translate it into other programming languages, just closed a $125 million Series B funding round from new and existing investors. The ...
Seeking Alpha

Figma teams up with Anthropic to convert AI code into designs

In a move to stay ahead of the widespread investor concerns of artificial intelligence applications displacing creative design software, Figma (FIG) has partnered with Anthropic (ANTHRO), a leading AI ...
CNBC

Figma partners with Anthropic to turn AI-generated code into editable designs

Figma and Anthropic are partnering on AI coding tools that integrate Claude Code. Software stocks have sold off as AI tools threaten to upend the industry. Figma reports earnings Wednesday. The stock ...