🗓️ 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.
Three-minute read. In today’s issue: Google Meet drafting your follow-up email when a call ends, Airtable’s new owners promising no change to your plan, the debate over Meta’s Muse Wonder, a private transcription tool, and an AI-made heist at the Ballon d’Or.
AUTOMATION
Google Meet now drafts your meeting follow-ups for you
What changed. Google put “next steps” on the screen you see when a Meet call ends. One tap drafts a follow-up email in Gmail or sends the action items to Google Tasks. Earlier this month this was a Workspace Studio template you built yourself; now it sits in Meet, on by default.
What it means for you. The follow-up email after a client call no longer starts from a blank page. Switch a step on once and it runs after every meeting.
The first step. Switch on Gemini’s meeting notes in your next client call. When it ends, find “Routines for this meeting”, tap the follow-up email step, and edit the draft before you send it.
The limitation. It is only on Business Standard and Plus and Enterprise Standard and Plus, so Business Starter teams will not see it. The rollout started 5 October and can take longer than 15 days. We have not tested how good the drafts are.
Google on next steps in Google Meet (workspaceupdates.googleblog.com)
Just shipped
Google Meet now encrypts calls with post-quantum cryptography, a tougher standard designed to withstand future quantum computers. It is live now on laptop web clients and meeting room hardware, with mobile support coming soon, and needs no setup or change in how a team uses Meet.
Clients who ask about call security can be told their Meet calls are already covered. (workspaceupdates.googleblog.com)
The rest of the day
💬 Meta released Muse Wonder, its new top model, and early testers like it. Artificial Analysis ranks it near the top of its index, and Shopify’s Tobi Lütke says “Meta is back”. It is in Meta’s API today, not yet in the Muse app.
🗂️ Airtable’s new owners say they are cutting part of the pre-acquisition team, and that nothing changes in your plan, price or service. They promise an upgraded Omni and Airtable Canvas in the coming weeks. (community.airtable.com)
🧩 Notion posted a thread of seven setups its customers run with Notion next to Claude, Muse and other assistants, including one shared skills library for every agent on a team. Copy the one that matches how your team already works. (x.com)
🧭 The AI Daily Brief argues five human skills matter more as AI writes more: taste, agency, focus, resourcefulness and follow-through. Pick the one your team is weakest on. (youtube.com)
🛠️ Built with AI
Vadim, 19, built his first app with AI and grew it past 20,000 users by posting the build on Instagram instead of buying ads. The move worth copying: a steady posting habit while you build can do the job of a marketing budget. (youtube.com)
🧰 The Open Source Toolshed
What it is. Buzz transcribes and translates audio and video files entirely on your own computer, so nothing you record gets uploaded anywhere.
Who it’s for. Any small business that records calls, interviews or training videos and wants searchable text without sending recordings to a cloud service.
How hard it is. Install the app for Mac, Windows or Linux and drop a file in; no account and no setup beyond that.
MIT licence. (github.com)
📈 The AI Odometer
Source: Ramp AI Index via FRED, “Artificial Intelligence Adoption by Ramp Businesses: Small Businesses”, updated 29 September 2026. Data © Ramp, from card and bill-pay spend at more than 70,000 US businesses.
Aug 2026: 62.46769 percent
What it means for you. Most small businesses now pay for at least one AI tool. Pick the job your team repeats most and put one paid seat on it this week.
Too early
Meta says Muse Wonder “will soon power experiences in Muse”, its personal assistant app, and will reach subscribers first. No date yet. (research.meta.ai)
⚽ One for the road
Someone used AI to stage a heist at football’s Ballon d’Or. Just as the 2026 winner is announced, a hooded thief grabs the golden ball and runs.
What follows is three minutes of AI-made stars in tuxedos chasing him through London at night, with a bus, a horse and running commentary. Haaland’s verdict: “I was never gonna catch him.”
The watermark says it was made with Higgsfield’s Seedance 2.5 video model. More than 700,000 people have watched it. (x.com)