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    "text": "So we have a … assistant called Cortana, all of the things that I mentioned so far, whether it's skills, MCPs and context graph, they're all plugged into that in every surface possible, whether it's on Slack, CLI, web. So anyone in the company, they can ask a simple question, it can look up the context graph, invoke any skill, check any code, check any code in any code base, and give an answer across any of these surfaces. … in the last one month, 300 unique … created and more than 20,000 sessions per day.",
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