Brandon Weger

Can't keep up with all the innovation coming to Copilot Notebooks in the OneNote app? View this May 2026 Update infographic we created in Notebooks. Read more here: msft.it/6019vZIGf Output lightly edited for clarity.

AI Policy Enters the Grant Scorecard open.substack.com/pub/thehighere… #highered

Exciting news, MAI-Image-2.5 (Preview) from @MicrosoftAI debuts at #3 in the Text-to-Image Arena with a score of 1,254 — a +72 point improvement over MAI-Image-2. A top 5 arena previously held only by @GoogleDeepMind and @OpenAI has a new lab in the mix. Congrats to the @MicrosoftAI team on this accomplishment.

AI-Resilient Assessment Design: Deep Dive + Guide #HigherEd #AIinEducation #AssessmentDesign #TeachingAndLearning #GenAI open.substack.com/pub/thehighere…

An AI strategy without a security strategy is unfinished. Model access, vendor contracts, API keys, shadow AI, incident response. One operating system. One owner per risk. Today in The Higher Ed AI Brief: thehigheredaibrief.substack.com/p/ai-security-… #HigherEd #AILeadership #Cybersecurity #EdTech #AIGovernance

Higher ed is at an AI inflection point. CSU’s rollout shows the challenge clearly: we have to prepare students for an AI-shaped workforce while protecting real learning, trust, academic integrity, and faculty voice. #HigherEd #AIinEducation #EdTech #TeachingAndLearning #FutureOfWork Important read: npr.org/2026/05/25/nx-…

Students aren't waiting for permission. Today's Higher Ed AI Brief unpacks what UVA and SUNY are building as 85% of graduating seniors already use AI and employers start to expect it. Bans and boosterism both fall short. The answer is assessable AI literacy by discipline. #highered #AI #CareerServices open.substack.com/pub/thehighere…

Student Success | 3 Takeaways on AI and Entry-Level Jobs Institutions including @UVA and @SUNY are launching AI initiatives to prepare students for a changing early-career job market. bit.ly/4tLZNl3

Physical AI Is Moving Into the Operating Layer #HigherEd open.substack.com/pub/thehighere…

I'm publishing something new today. The Higher Ed AI Brief. Interpreting AI for higher ed professionals. A Daily Brief every day, plus a longer Week in Review on Sundays. #AIinHigherEd #highered thehigheredaibrief.substack.com/?r=8hb66p&utm_…

@satyanadella Is this coming to M365 Copilot as well?

And there’s a lot more. If you want to try it, sign up here. copilot.microsoft.com/tasks/preview

I’ve been trying Copilot Tasks this week, and it’s awesome to assign tasks (even recurring) in this cowork mode and have them completed end to end autonomously and use Agent mode to refine and iterate on the outputs. A couple of examples ...

Illinois walks it off in the Music City Bowl, 30–28 over Tennessee 🤯🔥 @IlliniFootball

@sama Well…sorry to disappoint.

really disappointed i did not get top 1% tbh

See y’all in Nashville

Some of the best career advice I've ever gotten: comfort is the enemy of learning. If an opportunity is a little intimidating and feels like a stretch - it's probably the right opportunity.