Gemini can now rewrite and restyle a whole presentation in one prompt
What changed. Google says Gemini in Slides can now edit multiple slides or an entire presentation from a single prompt in the side panel. It can update content from your Drive files, refresh styles in bulk or match another presentation.
040đŧī¸ Gemini can now rewrite a whole presentation in one promptIn brief
- Just shipped Xero is splitting up its all-or-nothing access. You can already hide bank balances from standard users and share sales or purchases reports without opening the full Reporting Centre. Separate purchase order permissions arrive in November, with a Purchase Orders only role.
- The rest of the day đ Google's Security Checkup takes about two minutes and shows what can reach your Gmail: signed-in devices, outside apps and recovery details. Remove any AI tool or other app your team no longer uses. (blog.google)
- đ ī¸ Built with AI Kristen Dunning, founder of Gently Soap, used Gemini in Google Sheets to deal with unpredictable shipping costs and find a flat rate that works, Google Workspace says. Put your last three months of orders in a Sheet and ask the same question. (x.com)
- 𧰠The Open Source Toolshed What it is. GPT4All is a free desktop app that runs AI chat on your own computer, including over your own documents.
- Too early OpenAI previewed Private Intelligence, stronger data controls for businesses using its top models. It says it is building them with some of its largest customers and has given no date for smaller teams. (x.com)
- đšī¸ One for the road Drew Breunig baked a working Nintendo Entertainment System into the weights of an AI model.
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đ Gemini now edits files inside your chat
Create and revise PDFs, Docs, Sheets and Slides inside Gemini, with PDF editing also on mobile.
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đ Google Sheets can now stress-test your forecast for you
Sheets canvas turns your financial forecast into an interactive model you can adjust and stress-test with your team.
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đ¨ Apple's creative apps get AI photo editing in November
Apple Creator Studio adds Generate Fill for photos and an assistant in Keynote, Pages and Numbers in November, free for existing subscribers.
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đ Check what AI shopping agents are told about your store
Shopify's new Knowledge base shows the facts AI shopping agents get about your store.
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đ Check your website's PHP version this week
A WordPress update will not fix last week's critical PHP flaw. Here is the two-minute check.
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đ Google Meet now translates 63 languages, guests included
Google Meet now translates speech between 63 languages, and outside guests get it too.
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𧹠Airtable's Omni 2.0 now builds your base from messy files
Airtable's Omni 2.0, now on every plan, turns spreadsheets, PDFs and images into a working base.
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𧰠Gemini gets a home page for small business owners
Google is adding a Gemini landing page, brand style and finance tools for small business owners.
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đ Apps you build in Gemini can now become Google Sites pages
Apps you build in Gemini can now become Google Sites pages, no developer needed.
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đ ChatGPT now builds slides your team can edit together
Plus GPT-6 Pro splitting one job across agents, and HubSpot capping AI spend
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đŖ Gmail now answers questions about your inbox out loud
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đŖ ChatGPT can now work across your open Chrome tabs
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đŖ Google Ads lets you choose which channels get budget first
Google Ads will let you rank channels High or Low priority and cap what the low ones spend.
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đŦ AI video jumps from one-minute clips to ten-minute films
Higgsfield says its AI videos now run past ten minutes, up from about one.
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đī¸ Google Meet now drafts your meeting follow-ups for you
Google Meet now drafts your meeting follow-ups for you, straight from the post-meeting screen.
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đ Google Docs now opens the files your AI writes
Docs can now open, edit and share Markdown files, the plain-text format ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini answer in.
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đ Shopify now keeps your store translated in 8 languages
Shopify's Translate & Adapt now re-translates new and edited content every week, in up to 8 languages, for UK and EU stores.
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đ Claude's Docs, Slides and Design tools just went free
Anthropic's Claude Docs, Slides and Design tools leave beta and land on every plan, including Free.
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đ¸ Claude's new budget model matches OpenAI's price, almost
A new Claude model ties OpenAI's cheapest tier on price, but a bigger token count eats into the saving.
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đ Claude now edits your Google Docs, Sheets and Slides
Claude sits in a sidebar inside Google Workspace and edits the file you have open, in beta on every paid plan.
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đ ChatGPT text is getting an invisible AI label
OpenAI is extending content provenance to the text ChatGPT writes, to meet new EU rules.
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AI shopping agents are sending buyers straight to brands
Shopify's CEO says he keeps hearing it: people shopping through Meta's Muse agent are buying from brands directly.
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Meta's new AI agent is built for small businesses
Muse for Small Business connects to QuickBooks, Shopify and Stripe and drafts the work for you to approve.
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Half-price Claude usage for decks and docs until 15 October
For two weeks, decks, designs and docs started in the Claude app use 50% less of your usage limits on Pro, Max and Team plans.
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Zapier's new model matches Opus 5.5 at a third of the price
Zapier confirmed GPT-6.1 Sol matches Opus 5.5 on its own workflow benchmark at about a third of the cost.
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OpenAI's Dots: an AI assistant that keeps working for you
DevDay picks for small teams: Dots agents, @ChatGPT in Slack and Teams, and a near-top model at a fifth of the price.
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Cheaper Claude Sonnet 5.5 just beat pricier Opus 5.5
Claude Sonnet 5.5 costs less than Opus 5.5 and beat it on a real automation benchmark, and it's already live everywhere you'd use it.
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đ¸ GPT-6 got cheaper and Claude's limits went up
What last week's GPT-6 Sol and Luna launch means for your plan, plus more room on Claude Pro and Team.
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đŧ ChatGPT Work: hand AI a job and close your laptop
A full beginner's walkthrough of ChatGPT Work, the part of ChatGPT that runs jobs for you.
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đ Hermes Agent's search is now free on every plan
Hermes Agent's web search just became free on every plan, no upgrade needed.
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đ Claude Code cloud sessions leave preview
Claude Code cloud sessions are officially out of research preview, with a one-time credit for Pro and Max subscribers.
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đ¸ Three models tied at 97%. Now pick on price.
The top three finished level, and the cheap one came within three points.
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𧰠Your process is the thing the agent needs, not another tool
Plus what a payroll story that went viral yesterday actually proves.
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𧰠Claude now ships 43 ready-made workflows for your business
Plus a correction â we said Jev was a year away. It was five days.
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âī¸ Google just put an automation builder in your Workspace
It is off by default. Someone has to switch it on before 30 September.
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đŦ Get your Sora videos out while you still can
The last piece of Sora shuts down on 24 September. The export takes five minutes.
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đ Your meetings start writing themselves on Monday
Google flips a default on 21 September. One decision before then.
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â° Hand your ChatGPT task to someone else
Set it up once, then it runs on their account instead of yours.
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Make now builds automations inside ChatGPT
They keep running after you close the tab. Plus eight lines you can skip.
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Automation & workflowsHarnessMake.com
A hosted place to build workflows that run on somebody else's servers â triggered by an event, on a schedule, or by a webhook â so the work happens whether or not your laptop is open.
Records & databasesAppsAirtable
A database that looks like a spreadsheet, with an API, forms, views and AI fields on top â the place most small businesses end up keeping the records an automation needs to read and write.
Supadata
An API that turns videos from YouTube, TikTok and other platforms into transcripts, and turns web pages into clean text, for AI workflows to read.
Higgsfield
A browser studio that turns a product photo or your website into short ad videos and static ads, with camera moves you choose.
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