Microsoft might need a year or two to close the gap between Outlook Classic and New Outlook, but that doesn’t mean it can’t add new features to New Outlook or its mobile apps. New Outlook for Windows and the web is testing a unified inbox and faster notifications, while the mobile version is now adding the ability to insert signature images directly from OneDrive.

Outlook and OneDrive’s deeper integration should surprise nobody, and it has already gotten a lot better in New Outlook. You can drag and drop an attachment either to OneDrive in the left pane or into an email as an attachment in the right pane.

Now, mobile users will also be able to pull signature images directly from OneDrive without downloading them first.

Right now, you can manually insert an image-based signature using the file picker. You can also store the image in OneDrive, download it, and then add it manually, but there is no direct option to browse OneDrive while editing the signature.

This is now changing in Outlook for iOS and Android, with the rollout beginning in late August 2026.

The feature is particularly useful on mobile devices because of how Android and iOS handle image files. When you download an image from OneDrive to your phone, it can become lost among folders, and the mobile file picker may not immediately surface it.

With the new integration, you’ll be able to browse image files stored in OneDrive and insert one directly into your Outlook signature, so you no longer have to play a cat-and-mouse game with the file picker.

Microsoft says the feature will be enabled by default and requires no action from administrators.

Outlook Calendar for mobile is testing drag and drop

Outlook for Android and iOS is also testing a new feature that lets you reschedule calendar events using drag and drop. It will work in both day and multi-day calendar views and could be a game changer for productivity.

There are multiple use cases for drag and drop in Outlook Calendar. For example, if a meeting is scheduled for 10:00 AM but needs to be moved to 2:00 PM, you can simply drag the event to the new time slot. Outlook will automatically update the meeting time without requiring you to open and edit the event manually.

What is coming to Outlook for Windows?

Outlook Classic is adding a big Copilot button to the ribbon menu, so you have a familiar experience across all Office apps. Word, PowerPoint, and Excel already have Copilot in the ribbon menu, as well as a floating button. A similar experience is being prepared for Outlook Classic.

Another notable change that I am particularly excited about is Unified Inbox, which will let you view emails from all mailboxes in the same view, including shared mailboxes. You’ll be able to reply, archive, flag, snooze, and execute all tasks from the same inbox. This is coming to New Outlook.

Speaking of New Outlook, it’s getting a bit faster, particularly with notifications.

One of the recent updates rolled out the ability to open emails faster from notifications, but it’s still slower than Outlook Classic on Windows.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Routine cybersecurity testing of frontier AI models sparked a series of unexpected security incidents -- the most serious case arising when Anthropic's Mythos 5 model attempted to insert malicious code into an open source software application and created fake identities to deceive the human developers maintaining the project. The security incidents occurred during a cyber evaluation of seven leading AI models' capabilities by the AI Security Institute (AISI), a research organization within the UK government, in late July. The researchers discovered (PDF) 19 instances in which "AI agents took unsanctioned action on the live Internet, including cases that targeted real people and organizations," according to an AISI blog post published on August 4. Almost all the "autonomous, unsanctioned" actions came from Anthropic's Mythos 5 model, with two such actions coming from OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol. [...] The most serious case involved Mythos making multiple attempts to execute a supply chain attack on the open source project repository hosted on the developer platform GitHub, including using social engineering techniques to try to convince the repository's human maintainers to merge malicious code into the repository. After first opening a pull request to merge the malicious code into the repository, Mythos created fake online "sock puppet" personas that claimed to have independently reviewed and verified the code as not containing malware. The AI agent also sent five emails to two human maintainers of the repository, including some emails containing malware and others attempting to persuade a maintainer to accept the pull request. Mythos even opened a GitHub Issue on a second repository -- also owned by a maintainer of the first repository -- that contained a prompt injection with malicious instructions targeting "issue-triage AI coding agents." This line of attack came from Mythos reasoning that the repository maintainer could be an AI coding agent such as Claude Code.

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The DOJ alleged that OpenAI did not meaningful attempt to hire U.S. citizens before seeking permanent residence for Visa-holding employees.

Meta has launched Muse Code, its first AI coding agent that's positioned as a lower-cost rival to Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's Codex. It offers pay-as-you-go pricing and an optional zero-data-retention feature for enterprise users. CNBC reports: Muse Code is the latest major release from AI chief Alexandr Wang, who leads Meta Superintelligence Labs and oversees foundation model development. Wang joined in June of last year as the centerpiece of CEO Mark Zuckerberg's effort to revamp his company's flailing artificial intelligence strategy. "You can install it with one command and then use it to take on complete software engineering tasks across a wide variety of use cases, planning changes, writing code, validating the results," Wang said in an interview on Wednesday. [...] The new tool, like Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's Codex assistants, makes it easier for people to build apps within a single user interface while managing fleets of AI-powered digital agents that can help underpin the software development process. Muse Code, available in a preview version, works alongside the company's latest AI model, Muse Spark 1.2. Wang declined to share user statistics related to the company's Muse Spark AI models, but said "adoption has been exciting and strong." The latest Muse Spark model was developed and trained alongside Muse Code, which Wang said improves the overall coding performance.

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What's Shawn been up to lately? Carl and Richard chat with Shawn Wildermuth about his work in the Netherlands. Shawn talks about his last show on being a senior developer - and how much that has changed in the past two years. The role of large language models in software development has changed careers, but they're still fun. The conversation also dives into the role of Aspire to utilize the best of cloud architecture and how LLMs make that easier as well - and enable developers to take on more architectural roles without getting stuck in the details of implementation.



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