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Google gives Gmail, Docs and Keep a conversational voice upgrade
6+ day, 7+ hour ago (392+ words) Google is pushing Gemini deeper into its productivity apps, but this time the pitch isn’t another chatbot sitting beside your work. Gmail, Docs and Keep are getting new “Live” experiences designed around voice conversations, allowing users to search email, create…...
Driverless cars hit 252 km/h as A2RL invades Imola
1+ week, 3+ hour ago (246+ words) Kinetiz has claimed victory in the Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League’s first event outside the UAE, winning a five-car autonomous race at Italy’s Imola Circuit and giving A2RL an important test of whether its driverless racing technology can work beyond the…...
Dubai SMEs can now get Canva Business free for a year
6+ day, 23+ hour ago (460+ words) Dubai’s small and medium-sized businesses are getting a potentially useful software perk through Dubai Chambers, with eligible members now able to claim a year of Canva Business at no cost. The offer is being distributed through the Business in Dubai…...
GPT-6 Astra just landed on ChatGPT Plus, but there’s a catch
1+ week, 6+ hour ago (214+ words) Existing Plus subscriptions include a limited Astra allowance. Users who exhaust that allocation can purchase additional usage through credits, rather than needing to move to another subscription tier. The headline improvements over GPT-5.6 Sol are particularly noticeable in OpenAI’s benchmark…...
Microsoft 365 Copilot just gained a powerful new market intelligence agent
1+ week, 6+ hour ago (346+ words) Euromonitor International is bringing its Passport market research platform directly into Microsoft 365 Copilot, giving organisations a way to query proprietary market intelligence without jumping between Copilot and a separate research service. The new Euromonitor Passport agent is the company’s first…...
Google Gemini can now make music with its new Lyria model
1+ week, 1+ day ago (294+ words) Google is pushing Gemini further beyond text, images and video by bringing its latest AI music technology directly into the chatbot, giving users another way to generate creative media without leaving the Gemini experience. The new capability is powered by…...
This tiny AI recorder could make meeting notes almost effortless
1+ week, 1+ day ago (317+ words) Dedicated voice recorders are getting an AI makeover, and BOYA’s Notra Neo is built around the idea that capturing a conversation is only useful if you can quickly do something with it afterwards. The compact AI voice recorder can capture…...
OpenAI’s AI agents apparently started a jailbreak group chat
1+ week, 2+ day ago (270+ words) If AI agents ever needed a reminder that discussing your escape plans on a public wiki is not exactly master-villain behaviour, this may be it. According to Reuters, the activity began in May and eventually produced thousands of messages on…...
MrBeast is taking Google Gemini somewhere AI cannot afford to fail
1+ week, 4+ day ago (348+ words) Google is putting Gemini into one of the biggest entertainment machines on YouTube, signing a multi-year partnership with Jimmy Donaldson’s Beast Industries that will also extend into Google Health and Fitbit. The first major outing arrives September 5, when MrBeast and…...
Gemini just learned how to watch videos without watching everything
1+ week, 5+ day ago (378+ words) Google is giving Gemini a more selective way to watch videos, allowing its AI models to decide which parts of a recording actually deserve closer attention instead of processing everything at a largely fixed rate. The new capability, called agentic…...