Productivity

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Google Sheets Canvas is now available for AI Pro and Workspace plans

Gemini logo surrounded by translucent glass chat bubbles on a light background for Play Store promotion.

Google’s Gemini update brings meetings, music, bookings and more into one chat