📝 Your meetings start writing themselves on Monday
Google flips a default on 21 September. One decision before then.
Two-minute read.
One thing to do this week: decide, before Monday, whether you want Google Meet taking notes in every meeting you host. Then seven short lines and a fruit fly playing Doom.
GOOGLE MEET 📝
Your meetings start writing themselves on Monday
What changes. On 21 September Google turns automatic note-taking on by default for Business Standard and Business Plus, in every meeting you host with three or more guests. (knowledge.workspace.google.com)
What it means at your size. A document you did not ask for now exists after the Monday stand-up, the client call, the conversation about somebody’s pay. It saves to your Drive, attaches itself to the calendar event, and one setting decides whether the guests get it too. Most weeks that is a gift. The weeks it is not are the ones nobody sees coming.
The first step. Before Monday, open the Admin console and make this a decision rather than a discovery. If you keep it on, check who the notes get shared with.
The limitation. Business Standard and Plus only, and each person can still override it in their own Meet settings. This is a default moving, not a feature launching, so nobody is going to announce it to you. We have not lived through the switch, so this describes what Google documents.
JUST SHIPPED 🚀
- 🧠 ChatGPT stops deciding when to think. Plus and Pro now pick the model themselves. (help.openai.com)
- 🎨 Images 2.5 adds templates and sketch-to-image. Rough drafts of graphics, on your phone. (help.openai.com)
- 📊 Gemini in Sheets reaches Android, all editions. Your numbers, readable away from the desk. (workspaceupdates.googleblog.com)
- ☁️ Salesforce runs inside Claude, paid plans only. And only for organisations Salesforce approves. (support.claude.com)
THE REST 📋
The rest of the week, one line each.
- ⏳ OpenAI plans to retire custom GPTs and move them to plugins. No date yet. Copy your instructions somewhere you own. (help.openai.com)
- 🎬 OpenAI closes the Sora API on 24 September. If a video tool you pay for runs on it, ask them. (help.openai.com)
- 🎓 Canva opened a free AI certification this week. Open to anyone. (canva.com)
ONE FOR THE ROAD 🦖
Google Research and Janelia published the complete wiring diagram of a male fruit fly’s brain, all 166,000 neurons. Within a week people had it playing Doom, Minecraft and Beat Saber. The fly is not good at any of them. (janelia.org)