Welcome to the Solidus Ai Tech Friday Roundup with Ava, bringing you the latest and greatest updates from the world of technology!

Microsoft Brings Copilot to Excel
Microsoft is adding natural language to Excel with Copilot, letting users ask plain-English questions to generate formulas, clean data, build pivot tables, spot trends, and run what-if scenarios, making spreadsheets more intuitive and turning Excel into a true data assistant.

GPT-5 Tops Human Experts in Medicine
OpenAI’s GPT-5 outperformed clinicians on tough diagnostic and treatment benchmarks, providing clearer reasoning and safer recommendations, pointing to AI copilots as everyday assistants that boost accuracy and reduce errors in healthcare.

Google Updates AI Across Products
Google rolled out faster Gemini models across Search, Android, and Workspace, delivering richer multimodal answers, smarter writing, and improved meeting tools, pushing its ecosystem closer to a universal AI assistant.

Runway Launches Game Worlds
Runway’s new Game Worlds lets developers generate explorable levels and props from text prompts, with real-time editing of lighting, weather, and style, bringing game creation closer to building worlds with words.

Higgsfield Unveils Product-to-Video
Higgsfield’s Product-to-Video tool turns a single photo into ad-ready video with camera moves, scene changes, and virtual actors, giving brands a fast way to produce dynamic, social-ready content.

Boston Dynamics & TRI Debut LBM-Powered Robots
Boston Dynamics and TRI unveiled robots powered by Large Behavior Models that map language to complex actions like walking and grasping, paving the way for real-world autonomy in warehouses and factories.