🖼️ Gemini can now rewrite a whole presentation in one prompt
One prompt in Google Slides now updates every slide that needs changing.
Four-minute read. In today’s issue: Gemini rewriting whole presentations in Slides, Claude’s renamed plans, tighter staff access in Xero, a two-minute Gmail access check, and a Nintendo running inside an AI model.
EDITING
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.
What it means for you. Last quarter’s sales pitch can become this quarter’s without someone reworking it slide by slide. Gemini picks the slides that need changing, and they stay editable.
The first step. Open a presentation you reuse and ask Gemini to update it from your latest numbers file. Check every changed figure before it goes to a client.
The limitation. The rollout started on 29 October and may take more than 15 days to reach you. It covers Business Standard and Plus, Enterprise Standard and Plus, and Google AI Pro and Ultra. We have not tested it.
Google on editing whole presentations in Slides (workspaceupdates.googleblog.com)
PRICING
Claude renames its Max plans and drops the 5-hour limit on the $200 tier
Claude said on 30 October that Max 5x is now Max, at $100 a month, and Max 20x is now Ultra, at $200. Subscribers have nothing to do.
Most existing Ultra subscribers lose the 5-hour limit from now. Newer accounts keep a temporary limit until they are verified, and weekly limits stay as they were. Claude’s help page covers the $100 plan’s limits. Anyone hitting the 5-hour wall on the $200 plan should see the change first.
Claude on the plan rename (x.com)
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.
Existing users keep the access they have today. Open the Users page this week and check who can see your bank feeds. (blog.xero.com)
The rest of the day
🔐 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)
🧾 Shopify now lets you waive an order’s unpaid balance from the order page, and customers see the change. Staff need the new Waive order balances permission, and a Write-offs by order report is on all stores. (changelog.shopify.com)
👕 Shopify is moving variant editing onto the product page, with bulk edits for price and shipping. Plus stores can try it now, and the rollout to all merchants starts gradually in December. (changelog.shopify.com)
🤖 OpenAI says it will honour a shared robots.txt signal that tells participating AI providers your site’s training preferences. Ask whoever runs your website what yours says today. (openai.com)
⚙️ Make’s assistant Maia now has a Plan mode: it asks its questions up front, shows the approach and builds only once you approve. It also remembers your preferences, privately per user. (community.make.com)
🛠️ 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)
🧰 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.
Who it’s for. A small team that wants to ask questions of contracts or client files without sending them to an online service.
How hard it is. Download the installer for Mac, Windows or Linux and pick a model. Its last release was in February 2025, so expect fewer new models.
MIT licence. (github.com)
📈 The AI Odometer
Source: Ramp AI Index, October update, Ramp Economics Lab, “Cracks in the AI Thesis Part 3”, 14 October 2026. Chart by Ara Kharazian, Ramp.
On the bright side, AI spend rose at the beginning of October to a new peak. Now 1.5% above the previous peak in August.
What it means for you. Businesses on Ramp are using more AI without paying much more, and Ramp’s economist puts that mainly down to falling prices. Open last month’s AI bill, move one routine job to a cheaper model and compare the results.
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)
🕹️ One for the road
Drew Breunig baked a working Nintendo Entertainment System into the weights of an AI model.
You can now play Super Mario Bros inside Qwen, very slowly. His prompt to Opus 5.5 included: “Just for fun.” (simonwillison.net)
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