Microsoft added three features for financial professionals to Excel Copilot: skills, plans and external data integration. Skills let users define processes Copilot will perform in Excel, while plans show a task list before Copilot changes spreadsheet data and allow users to approve or revise actions. After completion, change links appear in chat and AI edits are displayed with human edits. Copilot can also pull in external data from third-party platforms.

South Korea\'s Ministry of Science and ICT said domestic artificial intelligence models are spreading across industrial sites, from financial investment analysis to robot intelligence and judicial administration. LG AI Research is working with Kiwoom Securities on a finance-focused AI agent using Exaone BI and LSEG data. Other firms are developing finance LLMs, pursuing robot intelligence, improving search reliability, building agriculture AI agents and developing a court support AI system.