🌍 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.
Four-minute read. In today’s issue: Shopify keeping your store translated in eight languages, Google letting Gmail and Meet draft your follow-ups, running a Shopify store from the Gemini app, and a parody ad for ChatGPT that does the dishes.
ECOMMERCE
Shopify will now keep your translated store up to date for you, in up to 8 languages
What changed. Shopify said on 9 October that Translate & Adapt can now re-translate new and edited store content automatically every week, and raised the number of languages it translates for you from 2 to 8. It is for merchants in 12 European countries, including the UK and Ireland.
What it means for you. Editing a product description no longer leaves your French or German page out of date. That is a job many shops pay a translator or an app to keep up with.
The first step. Open Translate & Adapt this week, pick your busiest second language and switch on Auto-sync. Then edit one product description and check the translated page after the next weekly sync.
The limitation. Auto-sync is off by default and only covers the 12 listed countries. Translations you wrote by hand are never overwritten, and we have not checked the quality of the machine translations.
Shopify on auto-synced translations (changelog.shopify.com)
AUTOMATION
Google Workspace Studio can now draft your post-meeting follow-up email
Google’s October update to Workspace Studio, its no-code tool for automating work across Gmail, Meet and Drive, adds a template that drafts a follow-up email after a meeting, using the full invite list from the calendar event.
It also lets a Gmail flow ignore follow-up replies, so it only fires on the first email in a thread, and adds a step that finds the right Doc in Drive. It rolls out gradually from 13 October.
Google on new Workspace Studio steps (workspaceupdates.googleblog.com)
🚀 Just shipped
Airtable shipped 11 updates on 9 October across calendars, comments and permissions. The headline change: admins can grant “add” and “delete” record permissions separately on table-constrained layouts, so a collaborator can add records to a shared base without being able to delete anything.
Open your interface permissions this week and give delete rights only to the people who need them, before someone accidentally removes a row. (community.airtable.com)
📌 The rest of the day
🛍️ Shopify said merchants can now run their store from inside the Gemini app: add products, check orders and pull reports without opening Shopify itself. Shopify has not published details beyond a short video yet. (x.com)
💳 Claude’s Max and Team plans now include monthly API credits: $100 on Max 5x, $200 on Max 20x and up to $500 pooled on Team. They only work with tools that take a Claude API key, not the normal Claude app. Claim them under Settings › Billing for whoever builds tools for you. (x.com)
🏷️ Shopify now shows your compare-at price to AI shopping agents, so they can see when a product is on sale. A toggle in your admin’s Compare-at section controls it. (changelog.shopify.com)
🧮 The Association for Human Mathematics rejected OpenAI’s 6 October release of more than 700 manuscripts claiming solutions to hard maths problems, calling it “a demonstration of power”, not scholarship. Mathematicians are still checking the work, a reminder that a confident AI answer still needs an expert to check it. (terrytao.wordpress.com)
🛠️ Built with AI
🎙️ Simon Willison built a new Newsletters page for his blog mostly by talking to an AI coding assistant while cooking dinner, then spent half an hour checking it. The website page you keep putting off could start the same way: describe it out loud and see how far you get. (simonwillison.net)
🧰 The Open Source Toolshed
What it is. Handy is a free, open-source app that turns speech into text anywhere on your computer: hold a key, talk, and the words land wherever your cursor was sitting, fully offline.
Who it’s for. A small team that would rather dictate a note, email or brief than type it, on Mac, Windows or Linux.
How hard it is. Download the installer from the project’s site or GitHub page and run it; no terminal, no account, no API key.
MIT licence. (github.com)
📈 The AI Odometer
Source: Epoch AI, “In August, 25% of math preprints acknowledged AI use, up from 4% in April”, Tara Abrishami, 18 September 2026. Licensed CC BY 4.0.
The share of math preprints on arXiv that acknowledge AI has risen rapidly, from 4% in April to 25% in August.
What it means for you. Even mathematicians now say when AI helped. Decide how your business will say so in client work before a client asks.
🔭 Too early
Midjourney is testing a “thinking mode” for image generation on its alpha site, which it says improves prompt accuracy and text in images. No release date. (updates.midjourney.com)
🍽️ One for the road
OpenAI says 10,000 of its AI agents found a proof for one of maths’ hardest open problems, the $1 million Navier-Stokes question about how fluids move, in 88 hours. Joma Tech marked the moment with a parody ad: “Introducing ChatGPT for Dishwashing”, in which GPT-6 “achieves state-of-the-art results on dishwashing benchmarks for long-running jobs and difficult stains”. Mathematicians are still checking the proof. The dishes are still yours. (x.com)