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AI in your day-to-day work: step-by-step guides, tool comparisons and workflows for office, administration, assistance and accounting.

A sliced banana with a Google logo sticker, from which coins with a crossed-out, halved price tag fall, next to a sharply rendered image with readable text protruding from a camera lens.

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Google halves price for image model Nano Banana 2.1

A robotic interviewer with a clipboard sits across from a candidate at a laptop, on the lid of which a HackerRank logo sticker is attached.

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HackerRank launches AI interviewer Chakra for tech jobs

From chat bubbles on a smartphone, an online store facade with a storefront assembles itself, with a Shopify logo sticker at the entrance

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Shopify launches Canvas: online store via AI chat in 20 minutes

A hand photographs several paper pages on a desk with a smartphone, while a PDF symbol appears on the screen, next to a ChatGPT logo sticker.

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ChatGPT now scans multiple pages into a PDF – only on iPhones

A hand sticks a "Skills" label over the old "Gems" label on a toolbox that also carries a Google logo sticker.

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Google launches Skills in Gemini – Replacement for Gems from 2027

Several hands assemble a floating document with charts and a table, while small glowing dots nearby independently handle tasks at app icons; a ChatGPT logo sticker is attached to the edge of the document.

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ChatGPT Space: OpenAI launches shared workspace for teams

A Microsoft Copilot logo sticker floats over a desk while a speech bubble with sound waves sorts letters into labeled filing trays as an overflowing inbox tray empties.

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Copilot organizes the inbox by voice command – only in English

A laptop shows a playing summary video with a German speech bubble, in front of it lies an open notebook with a checked-off task list, in the background stands an empty meeting table after a Teams meeting, a Microsoft Teams logo sticker is on the laptop lid.

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Microsoft Teams video recap now speaks German

A person speaks into their smartphone with a ChatGPT logo sticker, next to floating drawn symbols for an envelope, a calendar, and the Slack symbol.

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ChatGPT Voice now controls email, calendar, and Slack

The Microsoft logo sits above an open door through which symbolic figures for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint walk in, while in the background a robot figure with a name tag reading “Autopilot” keeps working alone at a desk.

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Microsoft integrates Word, Excel, and PowerPoint firmly into Copilot

A magnifying glass hovers over an Excel spreadsheet on a monitor, colorful sticky notes mark individual rows, next to a Microsoft Excel logo sticker.

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Copilot in Excel now shows who changed what

An open notebook with colorful bookmarks, with drawn lines leading to a Google Docs document showing an @ sign and checkmark speech bubbles

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Google Docs now shows sources from Gemini Notebook

Three laptops open side by side on a desk, their screens showing paper bullet points turning into presentation slides – with logo stickers for Canva, Microsoft Copilot, and Google Gemini

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Canva, Copilot and Gemini create presentations from bullet points

A robotic arm with an Anthropic Claude logo sticker reaches out of an open Amazon shipping box and moves a price tag next to an inventory-level dial.

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Amazon opens seller tools for Claude – initially in the USA

A laptop screen with a Google Meet logo sticker shows a single page with a short checklist, next to it lies a crossed-out stack of printed paper pages.

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Google Meet now summarizes meetings on one page

A laptop screen shows colorful presentation slides with diagrams next to a Canva logo sticker on a desk with blank slide templates.

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Canva Magic Design builds presentations in minutes using AI

A magnifying glass lifts a glowing answer speech bubble out of a stack of colorful envelopes, next to a sticker with the red Gmail logo.

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Gmail search now delivers AI answers – English only for now

A financial analyst connects a spreadsheet via a data bridge to a Workday cloud, while crumpled CSV printouts land in the trash.

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Workday brings AI financial analysis directly into Google Sheets

A hand in an office holds a smartphone showing an open Google Sheets table, next to a sparkling Gemini icon that turns into a bar chart

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Gemini now evaluates Google Sheets on mobile

A laptop screen shows a video conference, colorful speech bubbles in different languages rise from a headset, and a DeepL logo sticker is stuck on the laptop cover.

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DeepL Voice now translates meetings in your own voice

A filing cabinet labeled Cowork merges into a speech bubble bearing a Claude logo sticker, with document pages and a presentation slide flowing out of it.

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Anthropic launches Claude Docs and Claude Slides in chat

A family stands at the kitchen table under a floating clipboard with a shopping list, calendar page, registration form, and a Google logo sticker.

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Google now opens AI agent CC to entire families

A laptop screen shows bullet points on the left, a finished letter in Word on the right, with a ChatGPT logo sticker on the sidebar.

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ChatGPT now designs texts directly in Microsoft Word

An office worker juggles a customer-service headset, a pen and ruler, a calculator, and a binder while a chat speech bubble hovers overhead

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OpenAI Study: Non-Expert AI Use Rises to 25.9 Percent

A hand sorts a pile of loose, handwritten number slips on a desk into neatly labeled stacks, next to it is a Copilot logo sticker.

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Copilot in Excel builds pivot tables from a sentence

A safe with the Salesforce logo stands slightly ajar; inside, a gear-shaped brain bearing the Nvidia logo processes several speech-bubble icons.

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Salesforce launches Koa: own AI model for CRM

A laptop with an Apple logo sticker shows a microphone icon turning spoken words into a corrected business letter on screen.

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Apple Intelligence launches in Germany: better dictation feature

Four paper stacks on a desk shrink into single sticky notes, next to the logos of ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, and Claude.

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ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini and Claude: Summarizing PDFs Faster

Two overstuffed binders bearing the Google Sheets logo are pushed together on a desk into a single, twice-as-thick binder, with spreadsheet pages full of number columns sticking out of it.

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Google Sheets doubles cell limit to 20 million

A ChatGPT logo sticker is affixed to an open file drawer full of folders, with bar and line charts spilling out like paper scraps, next to a speech bubble with a question mark.

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OpenAI launches ChatGPT Data Agent: Company data without queries

A clipboard with colorful task cards, a checkmark is automatically placed on a checklist from a speech bubble with a Microsoft Copilot logo sticker.

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Copilot Chat creates Planner tasks – but only with Copilot license

A paper airplane shaped like an envelope, marked with a small Gemini star icon, flies out of a document on a screen straight into an open email inbox icon beside it.

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Gemini now sends emails from Docs – initially only in English

A hand presses the Alt and Space keys at once on a laptop keyboard while a window with a Google Gemini logo sticker pops up above it; a file folder and an open checklist sit on the desk beside it.

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Gemini opens now via keyboard shortcut on any Windows PC

A filing folder with an invoice, resume, and report on a desk, one page transforming into a colorful template layout, next to headphones with sound waves and a red Adobe Acrobat logo sticker on the folder

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Adobe Acrobat now automatically transforms PDFs into templates

A hand sketches a flyer on a desk, which transforms into a finished, colorful poster, next to a ChatGPT logo sticker on a notepad.

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ChatGPT now provides ready-made templates for flyers and posters

An office worker sits at a laptop with a ChatGPT logo sticker, surrounded by floating clipped web page fragments arranging themselves into a stack of index cards with checkmarks.

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ChatGPT builds a customer briefing with web search in minutes

A smartphone records a conversation at a meeting table, next to handwritten notes and a photographed whiteboard, with a Copilot logo sticker marking the scene.

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Copilot notebooks now capture meetings via smartphone

Three exhausted hikers on a snow-covered mountainside at dusk, one holding a smartphone with a chat speech bubble of the Google Gemini logo, from which a small snack bar and an almost empty water bottle are falling, in the background a rescue helicopter circles over the summit.

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Google Gemini tells hikers to pack too little for climb

A notebook with a OneNote logo sticker sits on a desk, a thread connects the pages to a speech bubble with a ChatGPT logo that bundles them into a checklist with checkmarks.

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ChatGPT now directly accesses OneNote notes

On a desk, a handwritten sheet of paper turns into a small video screen with a play triangle and a speech bubble, with a Google Vids logo sticker on it.

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Google Vids turns reports into videos – paid accounts only

A microphone with a Microsoft logo sticker on its stand emits sound waves that turn into lines of text, while a price tag reading ten cents falls beside it.

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Microsoft: MAI-Transcribe-2 transcribes for ten cents per hour

A hand holds a smartphone with a microphone symbol in front of a desk with an envelope, document and notepad, a Google logo sticker is stuck at the edge of the image.

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Gmail, Docs and Notes now respond to voice – only in English

A hand writes numbers on an invoice form with a pen next to a calculator, with logo stickers from ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini on top.

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ChatGPT, Copilot and Gemini create invoices via text input

A Google logo sticker above an hourglass with compute chips falling instead of sand, next to a speedometer-style gauge showing the usage budget.

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Google Retires Gemini Notebook's Daily Usage Caps

An open welcome folder with a checklist, an envelope and a calendar page on a desk, with a Copilot logo sticker next to it.

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Copilot builds the welcome folder for new team members

Several people are sitting at a round meeting table, speech bubbles in different languages are floating above their heads, in the center of the table lies an open minutes notebook, a laptop has a Microsoft Teams sticker.

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Teams now shows meeting summaries in its own language

A barn door opens in front of a conference table where a notebook with a Circleback logo automatically fills with speech-bubble text.

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Circleback opens AI meeting notes now for free

Two laptops on a desk each show a Gmail inbox, labeled “Work” and “Personal”, with a shared speech bubble carrying the ChatGPT logo between them, from which a calendar page and an envelope emerge.

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ChatGPT now links two Google accounts – paid plans only

A stack of open books with glowing speech bubbles above the pages, with a Google logo sticker on the top book cover.

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Google opens Gemini Notebook for purchased e-books

A robotic arm with an OpenAI logo sticker keeps typing on a keyboard at night with glowing lines of code, while a crescent-moon-shaped light switch still glows in the background.

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OpenAI tests Codex mode for permanently running AI agents

A browser window with a Claude logo sticker floats next to a relaxed hand at a desk, sorting invoices and forms into a filing tray on its own.

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Claude now opens websites on its own – paid plans only

A hand holds a microphone over a Word document on a desk, with spoken words flowing as text lines onto the paper, next to a Microsoft Word logo.

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Word Dictation: Write Text by Speaking Instead of Typing

A desk calendar with several sticky to-do notes, one of them just checked off, next to a ticking alarm clock and a ChatGPT logo sticker.

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ChatGPT now plans up to three tasks in the free account

A stack of envelopes with an identical template icon sits on a desk, a pen bearing a Gemini star icon is finishing the top envelope, and a Gmail logo sticker is stuck beside it.

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Gmail templates: Write recurring emails faster with Gemini

An open laptop on a desk shows a presentation slide, with a red recording icon in front of it, a clipboard with a checklist beside it, and a Google logo sticker on the laptop lid

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Google Slides now records presentations as video

A clock with the number five on the dial is wrapped by a chain with a padlock, next to an OpenAI logo sticker on a keyboard

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OpenAI brings back 5-hour limit for ChatGPT Plus

An Alibaba logo sticker is attached to an open binder, from which a film strip with small numbered frames unrolls between excerpts of spreadsheets and slides

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Alibaba transforms corporate documents into 30-second videos

A MacBook on a desk shows a speech bubble styled after the Apple Messages icon, out of which a chat window with the ChatGPT logo grows, next to an Apple logo sticker and a green confirmation checkmark.

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ChatGPT now answers iMessages and SMS on the Mac

A notebook with a Microsoft Copilot logo sticker on the cover lies on a desk, with drawn sound waves and speech bubbles rising from the pages, next to a pair of headphones and a cup of coffee.

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Copilot reads OneNote notes now as a podcast

A hand types on a desk keyboard into a floating chat input field with a Google logo sticker, with lines leading to an email icon, a calendar page, and a file folder.

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Google Chat searches emails via AI – initially only in English

A hand adds an appointment to an office wall calendar, next to it lies an open email envelope with an agenda checklist, a Copilot logo sticker sits on the calendar's edge.

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Copilot drafts meeting agendas straight from Outlook emails

Geometric building blocks form the outline of a laptop, with a chip and gears growing out of it, connected by thin network lines to a server icon in the background.

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Unsloth releases desktop app for local AI training

A file document with a table and company logo travels through a funnel bearing the DeepL logo and comes out the other side in a different language, but with the same table and the same layout.

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DeepL translates entire documents without loss of formatting

A hand peels a sticker with the Google logo off the corner of a printed AI-generated image on a desk, next to a smartphone showing a chat speech bubble.

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Google Gemini: Users can now turn off AI watermarks

Two speech-bubble icons with the Microsoft Copilot logo merge into one over a desk, next to a calendar page with August 18 circled in red and icons for Word, Excel, and Outlook.

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Copilot combines Chat, Word, Excel – Group Chat ends August 18

A Google Docs document with checkmarks floats on a connecting line between a Google Drive logo sticker and a ChatGPT logo sticker on a desk, next to a crossed-out upload-and-download symbol.

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ChatGPT now edits Google Drive files directly in chat

On a desk, colorful Kanban cards and a small calendar page rise up out of a printed spreadsheet, with a Google Sheets logo sticker next to them.

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Google Sheets Creates Mini-Apps From Tables – Paid Only

A smartphone is standing upright on a meeting table between speaking colleagues, a note with checked tasks and a Google Meet logo sticker appears on the screen.

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Google Meet Now Creates Notes for In-Person Meetings

A Chrome browser window with the Claude logo in the sidebar, with icons for a spreadsheet and a folder flowing into the browser content.

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Claude Cowork: Skills and plugins now run in the Chrome browser

A laptop displays a Word document with the Copilot logo, next to it is a stack of personalized envelopes with different names, fanned out from a mailing list.

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Copilot drafts personal letters for mail merges in Word

A chat window with the Microsoft Copilot logo sends a speech bubble as a paper airplane to a neighboring screen.

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Copilot now shares entire chats via link with colleagues

A hand folds a thick stack of paper documents into a short bullet-point list, next to a laptop screen with the Claude logo.

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Claude summarizes PDF reports and contracts in minutes

An employee walks down a hallway wearing headphones and holding a smartphone, a speech bubble with a document icon floats from the phone, next to a ChatGPT logo sticker

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ChatGPT Opens Voice Mode With Files Now for Business Accounts

A graphics card with a Meta logo sticker sits on a desk, a small robot arm rises from its fan and types on a laptop keyboard, next to it floats a crossed-out cloud.

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Meta releases Muse Glimmer: AI agent for a graphics card

Two terminal screens with Claude logo stickers are connected by a common speech bubble that emanates from both sides.

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Claude Code starts message exchange between AI sessions

A laptop screen shows a messy table turning into a color-coordinated Excel table with charts, with an Excel logo sticker next to it.

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Copilot now designs Excel spreadsheets in a uniform style

A ChatGPT logo sticker is stuck on a desk next to a speech bubble from which a broken padlock falls out.

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ChatGPT lifts the limit for free chats starting August 10

A terminal window with a Meta logo sticker, in front of which several small robot arms simultaneously type parallel lines of code on a keyboard.

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Meta launches Muse Code: Coding agent for terminals

A laptop screen shows a PowerPoint slide with a bar chart next to a notepad with bullet points, a ChatGPT logo sticker is stuck on the edge of the screen.

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ChatGPT now creates slides directly in PowerPoint

A laptop screen shows an Excel table with a long formula, next to it an Excel logo sticker and a speech bubble in which a question mark turns into a checkmark

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Copilot in Excel explains formulas in everyday language

A hand with a Microsoft logo sticker on the sleeve presses a lid onto an overflowing pot full of glowing digital coins.

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Microsoft Caps AI Token Consumption of Its Own Employees

A business letter with red correction squiggly lines under several words, above it an oversized pen that turns the lines into green checkmarks, next to it an envelope symbol.

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DeepL Write corrects business texts in a few steps

A laptop shows a Google Meet video call window; beside it floats a bar-chart slide being captured as a screenshot by a stylized camera, with a notepad showing checked-off items below.

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Google Meet adds AI notes with screenshots – only in paid accounts

A Notion logo sticker is stuck on a checklist on a desk, next to it float small icon cards for email and calendar that check themselves off.

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Notion automatically updates task lists after meetings

A document icon with a Google Docs logo sticker, surrounded by speech bubbles containing Cyrillic, Turkish, Polish, and Arabic script, with a Gemini star sticker holding a pen above it

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Google Docs: Gemini Now Writes in 11 More Languages

A retro microphone sends sound waves toward an oversized fn key with a long paper ribbon of text lines rolling out of it; beside them a coffee cup and a writing hand

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Gemini Now Dictates in Any Mac Program – English Only

An office worker checks a list of email attachments created by Copilot next to a file folder on the desk using a laptop.

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Copilot now finds email attachments without manual search

Desk with laptop, on whose screen a Word document with a quarterly report is visible, next to a second monitor with an overview of PowerPoint slides.

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Copilot transforms Word reports into finished PowerPoint slides

Marketing manager at a desk with Meta Ads Manager on one monitor and an AI assistant executing advertising commands on the second screen

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Meta opens ad accounts to AI agents via new MCP server

Office worker at a laptop with a Google Docs document into which a colorful infographic has just been inserted

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Google Docs Now Creates Diagrams via AI – Paid Plans Only

Paper invoices next to a laptop screen with a spreadsheet in the office.

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ChatGPT converts PDF invoices into an Excel spreadsheet in 5 steps

Office worker at a desk, on whose laptop screen a SharePoint folder icon transforms into finished Word, Excel, and PowerPoint file icons.

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Copilot Now Creates Finished Word and Excel Files in SharePoint

Desk with a laptop showing neatly labeled folders for meeting notes and recordings in Google Drive, next to an open calendar page.

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Google Meet Tidies Meeting Notes and Recordings Into Drive

An office worker speaks into her smartphone on the go, with icons for voice mode, email, calendar, and chat visible on the screen.

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Claude Now Speaks With Gmail and Calendar – Even on the Free Plan

Desk with a laptop showing an email with flag icons for German, English and French on screen

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DeepL, ChatGPT and Google Translate translate business emails

Office desk with a laptop showing an Outlook calendar appointment with a Microsoft Copilot icon, next to a wall calendar with a September date marked in red.

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Outlook disables meeting reminders – Copilot costs from September

Screen showing the new team chat app Buzz, where AI agents appear alongside human colleagues as equal channel members

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Block launches Buzz: Team chat with AI agents as members

Office worker records a work task for the AI Claude Cowork via screen recording on a laptop while explaining the steps out loud.

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Claude Cowork takes on tasks after a short demonstration

Desk with a laptop showing a video call with several participant tiles, next to a notepad with a partially checked task list and a calendar block.

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Microsoft Teams automatically transforms meetings into minutes

An office worker types a custom instruction into Gmail's Help me write assistant on a laptop, with a calendar and notes on the desk in the background.

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Gmail now edits email drafts exactly to your own instructions

The OpenAI Codex Micro add-on keyboard with backlit keys, joystick, and dial next to a keyboard on a desk

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OpenAI launches Codex Micro: Keyboard for AI agents

Linus Torvalds at a laptop in front of the Linux Tux logo, the screen showing the AI code review interface Sashiko

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Linux Kernel Backs AI Tool Sashiko: Torvalds Rebuffs Critics

Smartphone screen shows an AI-generated image of a red-painted living room in Google Search next to the Google Images logo

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Google Images will soon create its own AI images in search

Smartphone showing WhatsApp with a ChatGPT contact on a café table in a European old town, cappuccino beside it.

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ChatGPT Returns to WhatsApp: Free Access Across the EU

Smartphone showing the Google Drive app with a Gemini answer panel above document icons.

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Google Drive now answers questions about multiple files

Connected graph view of the note-taking app Obsidian on a laptop screen at a desk

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What is Obsidian? The complete guide to the note-taking app

Developer workstation with multiple screens showing parallel terminals during the migration of Bun's source code from Zig to Rust.

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Bun rewrites JavaScript runtime with AI: from Zig to Rust

An office worker sits at a desk in front of a laptop with an Excel spreadsheet, next to a calculator and a file folder.

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Copilot in Excel now automates the monthly closing