#AI in Practice
Posts tagged #AI in Practice – 65 posts.
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ChatGPT now links two Google accounts – paid plans only
ChatGPT now connects multiple Google accounts simultaneously: Those who have already linked the programs Gmail, Calendar, or Contacts can add a second or third account since August 28, 2026. This…
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Google opens Gemini Notebook for purchased e-books
Google now allows users to load purchased e-books from Google Play Books directly into Gemini Notebook, the former AI application NotebookLM. According to the company, the new feature Expert…
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OpenAI tests Codex mode for permanently running AI agents
OpenAI released a code change in the public repository of the coding agent Codex on August 26, 2026, which prepares a new persistent mode. The mode allows the agent to continue working without a…
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Claude now opens websites on its own – paid plans only
Claude now performs web tasks in the Cowork app with its own built-in browser, which Anthropic introduced on August 26. Instead of controlling the users' private browser, Claude opens web pages in a…
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Word Dictation: Write Text by Speaking Instead of Typing
Anyone who types a lot of emails, minutes, or customer letters in the office knows the problem: the text is often finished in your head before your fingers catch up on the keyboard. Microsoft Word…
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Anthropic connects memory of Claude-Chat and Cowork
Anthropic has redesigned its language model Claude so that Chat and the task tool Cowork can now access a shared memory. Until now, users had to explain projects, preferences, and ongoing work again…
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ChatGPT now plans up to three tasks in the free account
OpenAI has opened up ChatGPT's task scheduling to free accounts since August 25, 2026: up to three recurring reminders or one-time tasks can now be set up without a subscription. Until now, the…
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Gmail templates: Write recurring emails faster with Gemini
Whoever repeatedly answers similar inquiries in the office – such as appointment confirmations, feedback on invoices, or standard rejections – often types the same text in slightly altered form…
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Google Slides now records presentations as video
Google is integrating a recording feature directly into Google Slides: With a click on the new recording button, a presentation turns into a finished, narrated video instead of just a collection of…
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OpenAI brings back 5-hour limit for ChatGPT Plus
OpenAI will reintroduce the five-hour usage limit for ChatGPT Work and Codex for Plus accounts starting August 26, 2026. The limit had been suspended since July after the company had temporarily…
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Alibaba transforms corporate documents into 30-second videos
Alibaba made its AI video model Wan3.0 more widely available on August 24, 2026. Users can now automatically transform business documents such as reports, spreadsheets, presentations, or websites…
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ChatGPT now answers iMessages and SMS on the Mac
ChatGPT can now read, organize, and respond to short messages on the Mac. A new plugin scans iMessages, SMS, and RCS messages in Apple's Messages app and suggests ready-made responses that users only…
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Copilot reads OneNote notes now as a podcast
Microsoft is further expanding the so-called Copilot notebooks in OneNote and the Copilot app: Those who collect documents, email excerpts, or their own notes on a topic there can now listen to the…
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Google Chat searches emails via AI – initially only in English
Google is integrating a new AI command line called "Ask Gemini" into Chat, which will gradually launch starting August 26. Users can access it via a keyboard shortcut and let Gemini search for files…
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Copilot drafts meeting agendas straight from Outlook emails
An email chain with proposed meeting times often ends with someone manually compiling the time, participants, and agenda. Microsoft has automated this step in Copilot for Outlook: with the push of a…
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Unsloth releases desktop app for local AI training
Unsloth AI released an open-source application called Unsloth Desktop on August 11, 2026, which consolidates local training and execution of AI models in a single app. The free software runs on…
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DeepL translates entire documents without loss of formatting
Translating a ten-page proposal for a foreign client by hand takes time and often messes up the formatting. DeepL not only handles the text in Word, PDF, and PowerPoint files but also tables, font…
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Google Gemini: Users can now turn off AI watermarks
Google allows Gemini users to decide for themselves whether images, videos, and music pieces created with artificial intelligence carry a visible Google logo as a label. Until now, the company…
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Copilot combines Chat, Word, Excel – Group Chat ends August 18
Microsoft is merging the separate Copilot apps for personal and business customers into a single application starting August 18, 2026. Those who use group chats, self-created podcasts, or research…
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ChatGPT now edits Google Drive files directly in chat
ChatGPT can now open and edit files from Google Drive directly in the chat window. When a Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides file is inserted via @-mention, it appears next to the conversation and can be…
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Google Sheets Creates Mini-Apps From Tables – Paid Only
Google is now allowing tables in Sheets to be transformed into clear mini-apps via text input – for example, into a Kanban board or a dashboard. The AI Gemini automatically builds the view from the…
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Google Meet Now Creates Notes for In-Person Meetings
Google Meet can now also take notes during in-person meetings without a screen, no longer just during video calls. A Google Doc is automatically created from the conversation with a summary, complete…
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Claude Cowork: Skills and plugins now run in the Chrome browser
Anthropic has firmly integrated its tool Cowork into the Chrome sidebar of its browser extension since August 12, 2026. Skills, plugins, and connectors run there for the first time without separate…
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Copilot drafts personal letters for mail merges in Word
Writing a personal invitation or customer letter for fifty people by hand usually takes a lot of time. Copilot in Word writes an initial letter text, which Word's mail merge function then…
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Copilot now shares entire chats via link with colleagues
Microsoft is building a sharing feature for chats into Copilot. A link is enough to share an entire conversation or a single response with colleagues. Recipients can see the content immediately for…
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Claude summarizes PDF reports and contracts in minutes
A contract with twelve pages of fine print is in the inbox, and there are ten minutes left before the next appointment. The chatbot Claude reads such PDF documents directly in the chat window and…
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ChatGPT Opens Voice Mode With Files Now for Business Accounts
OpenAI has expanded ChatGPT's voice mode with two features: anyone talking to the AI can now upload a file and ask questions about it, and voice can for the first time be used inside Projects too…
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Meta releases Muse Glimmer: AI agent for a graphics card
Meta introduced an open agent model called Muse Glimmer with 30 billion parameters on August 10, 2026, which runs entirely locally on a single consumer graphics card. The company distills the model…
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Claude Code starts message exchange between AI sessions
Anthropic now lets Claude Code sessions communicate directly with each other: since version 2.1.224, a session on macOS or Linux automatically informs another one as soon as a change affects its…
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Copilot now designs Excel spreadsheets in a uniform style
Microsoft has expanded Copilot in Excel with a new shortcut: “@theme-design” transforms a table in seconds with uniform colors, clean charts, and clear structure. A paid Copilot license for Microsoft…
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ChatGPT lifts the limit for free chats starting August 10
ChatGPT will receive unlimited text chats in the free account starting the week of August 10, 2026 – until now, there was a limit after a certain number of messages per day. Additionally, a new…
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Meta launches Muse Code: Coding agent for terminals
Meta introduced its own AI coding agent, Muse Code, on August 5, 2026, competing directly against Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex. The terminal tool is based on the new Muse Spark 1.2…
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ChatGPT now creates slides directly in PowerPoint
OpenAI has integrated ChatGPT directly into Microsoft PowerPoint. A free add-in displays a ChatGPT sidebar that creates finished slides from bullet points or Word files and revises existing…
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Copilot in Excel explains formulas in everyday language
Whoever encounters a nested formula in an inherited or old Excel spreadsheet often does not immediately understand what it calculates. Such finds appear in accounting, controlling, or order lists…
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Microsoft Caps AI Token Consumption of Its Own Employees
Microsoft has set fixed upper limits for AI token consumption for its business units starting July 2026 and is making the cheaper model GPT-5.6 the internal standard. According to an internal memo…
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DeepL Write corrects business texts in a few steps
Whoever formulates business letters, offers, or customer emails themselves often discovers typos and clumsy sentences only upon a second reading. DeepL Write, the writing assistant from the Cologne…
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Google Meet adds AI notes with screenshots – only in paid accounts
Google Meet now adds screenshots of the displayed slides and tables to its automatically generated meeting notes. Those who previously took their own screenshots during a presentation to find…
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Notion automatically updates task lists after meetings
Notion now connects its automatic meeting notes with a self-operating assistant. Once the AI has summarized a conversation, this so-called Custom Agent can update task lists, send a summary, or turn…
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Google Docs: Gemini Now Writes in 11 More Languages
Google is expanding the Gemini writing assistant in Google Docs to eleven more languages, including Polish, Turkish, Swedish, and Czech. The rollout for regular business accounts began on August 1…
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Gemini Now Dictates in Any Mac Program – English Only
Google has equipped the free Gemini app for macOS with a system-wide dictation feature: a long press on the Fn key is enough to speak instead of typing in any open program. The AI automatically…
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Copilot now finds email attachments without manual search
Microsoft is expanding its office AI Copilot with a new feature: from now on, it lists all file attachments that a user has sent or received via email. Anyone looking for an invoice, a quote, or a…
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Google Docs Now Answers Comments via AI – Paid Subscription Only
Google Docs now allows the AI Gemini to summarize entire comment threads, draft responses, and suggest changes to the text. Those who receive a lot of feedback on a document no longer have to read…
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Copilot transforms Word reports into finished PowerPoint slides
A quarterly report is ready as a Word file, but a presentation is still needed for the team meeting in the afternoon. Copilot in PowerPoint takes care of this step: from the existing text, an initial…
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Meta opens ad accounts to AI agents via new MCP server
Meta has launched the Ads MCP Server, wiring AI assistants directly into advertising accounts. Connected agents can not only analyse campaigns but also create, edit and delete them. The service runs…
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Google Docs Now Creates Diagrams via AI – Paid Plans Only
Google has given Gemini in Google Docs a new image feature: starting July 28, 2026, images, diagrams, and infographics can be generated and edited directly through text prompts in the document. The…
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ChatGPT converts PDF invoices into an Excel spreadsheet in 5 steps
A stack of supplier invoices as PDF sits in the inbox, and every figure has to be typed into a table by hand. ChatGPT takes over this step: uploaded receipts are read and automatically turned into a…
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Copilot Now Creates Finished Word and Excel Files in SharePoint
Microsoft has recently enabled Copilot in SharePoint to create complete Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files directly from existing folders, with no blank document required. A Microsoft 365 Copilot…
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Google Meet Tidies Meeting Notes and Recordings Into Drive
Google now automatically organizes meeting materials from Google Meet: notes, transcripts, and recordings of each meeting are automatically placed in their own folder in Google Drive. Previously…
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Claude Now Speaks With Gmail and Calendar – Even on the Free Plan
Anthropic significantly expanded the voice mode of its chatbot Claude on July 23, 2026. Anyone talking to Claude can now use the powerful Opus and Sonnet models and directly operate apps like Gmail…
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Copilot revises email drafts directly in Outlook
Microsoft is expanding text editing with Copilot in Outlook. When a paragraph in an email draft is highlighted, users can directly ask Copilot to rephrase it to be shorter, more formal, or structured…
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DeepL, ChatGPT and Google Translate translate business emails
Writing business emails in English, French, or Spanish costs time in many offices every day. DeepL, ChatGPT, and Google Translate translate such emails today in seconds. However, the three tools…
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Outlook disables meeting reminders – Copilot costs from September
Microsoft is shutting down the free Meeting Insight feature in Outlook between mid-August and early September 2026. Until now, it automatically surfaced relevant emails and files before appointments…
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Block launches Buzz: Team chat with AI agents as members
Block, the payment company of Jack Dorsey, released the chat software Buzz on July 21, 2026. Unlike Slack or Microsoft Teams, AI agents in it receive their own cryptographic identities and work as…
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Claude Cowork takes on tasks after a short demonstration
Anthropic has given its office assistant Claude Cowork a new feature. Anyone who wants a task automated in the future demonstrates it once via screen recording with spoken commentary – Claude saves…
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Microsoft Teams automatically transforms meetings into minutes
An hour-long Teams meeting often leaves only incomplete notes and the question of who is responsible for which task. Microsoft Teams now automatically takes care of this follow-up: the Recap feature…
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Gmail now edits email drafts exactly to your own instructions
Google is rolling out a new level of writing assistance in Gmail: The "Help me write" feature now accepts precise free-text requests instead of only offering fixed buttons like "Shorten." If someone…
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OpenAI launches Codex Micro: Keyboard for AI agents
OpenAI is selling its first own hardware product with the Codex Micro: a keyboard for controlling AI programming agents for 230 dollars. The company developed the device together with the accessory…
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Linux Kernel Backs AI Tool Sashiko: Torvalds Rebuffs Critics
The Linux kernel now has a clear, official stance on artificial intelligence – and it comes straight from the top maintainer himself. In an email to the Linux kernel mailing list, Linus Torvalds…
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Google Images will soon create its own AI images in search
Google integrates artificially generated images directly into Google Search: For the 25th anniversary of Google Images, the new model Nano Banana 2 Lite creates its own images in the AI summaries…
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ChatGPT Returns to WhatsApp: Free Access Across the EU
Since July 13, 2026, ChatGPT works again directly inside WhatsApp – with no extra app needed. An order from the European Commission forces Meta to reopen the messenger to outside AI chatbots. The…
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ChatGPT Is Back on WhatsApp in the EU Since July 13
ChatGPT can be used directly inside WhatsApp again as of this week, with no extra app required. This is possible thanks to an order from the EU Commission forcing parent company Meta to reopen the…
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Google Drive now answers questions about multiple files
Google has expanded the Drive app for Android and iPhone with a new AI feature. From now on, questions can be asked about multiple files at once, instead of opening each document individually. The AI…
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What is Obsidian? The complete guide to the note-taking app
Obsidian is a free note-taking app that stores text as Markdown files locally on your own device and connects them into a searchable knowledge network via links. This guide shows concretely how to…
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Bun rewrites JavaScript runtime with AI: from Zig to Rust
The software developer Jarred Sumner had the JavaScript runtime Bun completely rewritten from the programming language Zig to Rust. Up to 64 parallel instances of the unreleased Anthropic model…
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Copilot in Excel now automates the monthly closing
Microsoft equips Copilot in Excel with saveable workflows, a change preview, and direct financial data connections. Those who regularly edit a spreadsheet in the same way, such as during month-end…
