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Available today: GPT-5.5 Instant in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Microsoft has added OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Instant to Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio. Building on GPT-5.3 Instant, GPT-5.5 Instant improves the quality of everyday work tasks designed to deliver more accurate and concise responses, with improved performance on image analysis and STEM-related tasks. Microsoft 365 Copilot can now provide clearer responses for everyday work, helping you get to a useful answer more quickly in many everyday workflows, with less back-and-forth.

Copilot Cowork: From conversation to action across skills, integrations, and devices

Once AI understands your work, it can start contributing to it and working alongside you. Copilot Cowork is built on Work IQ, an intelligence layer that understands your data, your tools, and your organization. That foundation allows it to plan, act, and produce outcomes that are grounded in how your business runs. Now, Microsoft is adding additional capabilities to Cowork to expand on what it can make possible for you.

Introducing Learning Activities: AI-powered practice for educators and students

Building good practice materials takes time that educators rarely have, and most students don’t know where to start when it comes to studying on their own. Learning Activities is designed to close that gap for both. Educators can paste in lesson content and generate a shareable practice activity in under three minutes. Students can do the same with their own notes to study independently, or dive straight into an activity a teacher shared with them.

Get more out of Microsoft Clipchamp with these little‑known features

Microsoft Clipchamp is a powerful, easy‑to‑use video editor for creating everything from quick updates to dynamic presentations. But creating the video is only one part of the story, the real impact comes from how content is shared, discovered, and experienced by viewers. Beneath the surface, Clipchamp unlocks lesser‑known features that help you not only create faster and stay on brand, ensuring your content lands effectively with your audience.

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