Productivity

Adobe and Slack logos at the top, with a collage of colorful sneaker product advertisements and two white AI-style prompt boxes showing Adobe being asked to turn a spreadsheet into a PDF product catalog and create a poster for a seasonal collection.

Slack can now create and edit content with Adobe

Slack is getting a surprisingly powerful creative upgrade, courtesy of…

Illustration showing Google Workspace apps - including Gmail, Google Chat, Docs, Meet, Slides, Sheets, Drive, Calendar, Sites, and Vids - feeding into Workspace Intelligence, which organizes the information into a central AI context layer.

What Workspace Intelligence means for teams using Google Workspace

If AI keeps asking you to restate your project, this…

Abstract illustration of Gemini Notebook’s flexible compute limits, showing a progress bar and cursor, video, slide, and document icons, and scheduled task bars with clock symbols on a soft blue background.

Gemini Notebook’s September change could help (or hurt) your workflow

Starting September 2, Gemini Notebook replaces blunt daily caps with…

A dark promotional graphic announcing a Gemini Live productivity update, with white text reading “Gemini Live just got a productivity boost” above a glowing blue Gemini Live icon on a black and deep-blue gradient background.

Google’s new Gemini Live handles tasks while you talk

Google is betting that people will talk to their phones…

Google Sheets screenshot showing a “Global Sales Data 2024-2025” workbook with a pivot table that groups order dates by month and customer ages into ranges, while the Pivot table editor displays reusable fields such as “Order Date - Year-Month” and “Grouped Customer Age.”

Google Sheets adds persistent grouped fields for pivot tables

If you build pivot tables in Sheets, this update will…

A Gemini app screen showing an interactive 3D DNA double helix simulation, with controls to change visualization mode, adjust unzip distance, and toggle hydrogen bonds.

Gemini app now builds interactive simulations inside your chat

Instead of long text answers, Gemini can now spin up…

Grok Bot logo in white centered on a soft blue abstract gradient background.

How Grok Bot tries to automate the boring parts of your job

Grok Bot frames AI as a set of specialized workers…

Google Chat interface showing the new Ask Gemini tool selected in the left sidebar, with a central panel offering prompts like “Learn about Ask Gemini,” “Schedule focus time,” and “Summarize unread chats.”

Google Chat swaps the Gemini side panel for Ask Gemini

Google Chat’s new Ask Gemini tool removes the side panel…

Two students work on a laptop at a table with Google Gemini text overlaid, promoting a free one-year student plan.

Google gives college students a year of AI Pro for free

Starting this week, U.S. college students aged 18 to 24…

A translucent orb with the Perplexity Computer logo inside, floating on a dark background with glowing envelope shapes, representing email-based AI tasks.

Perplexity can now do work inside email

Instead of copying context into a chatbot, you can now…

Claude interface showing a “Good afternoon, Emily” prompt, with Gmail and Google Drive connectors enabled and a drafted email reply ready to send.

Claude can now send Gmail emails and manage Google Drive files

For anyone drowning in email threads and scattered documents, Claude’s…

Notion AI model picker showing a menu of model options, including Auto, Opus 5, GPT-5.6 Terra, GPT-5.6 Sol, and Kimi K3, with scorecards for speed and intelligence.

Notion now lets you pick your AI model

Notion adds model scorecards, favorites, and effort control.