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What has to go right for the AI spending gamble to pay off
A handful of tech giants are spending at a scale that dwarfs any industry investment in history. A Wharton finance professor ran the arithmetic and the answer is both clear and sobering.
Anthropic Puts Claude's Chat, Cowork and Artifacts Into One Window
Claude users no longer need to choose between tabs. One window now handles chat, collaborative work and design, with new presentation and document features on the way.
Google brings voice control to Gmail, Docs, and Keep with new AI assistants
Three new "Live" modes let you search your inbox, draft documents, and add shopping-list items just by talking. Here is who can use them today.
Fambot wants to be the AI assistant that actually helps parents survive the school-year chaos
A new startup is building an AI tool that reads your family emails, WhatsApp groups, and calendar so you can stop drowning in school newsletters and start kicking a ball around with your kids.
Australia's robot gap just got a new fix: an AI tool that writes your automation business case for you
A new national platform called AutomationFinder.com.au uses AI to help Australian manufacturers describe, cost and pitch automation projects, without needing to hire an engineering consultant first.
This London Startup Wants to Kill Your Keyboard With a $150 AI Microphone
Relay's voice-to-text app is live now for Mac users. The hardware arrives in early 2027, and the founders think you'll barely touch your keyboard after that.
Google Sheets Gets an AI Facelift: Your Spreadsheet Can Now Build Its Own Dashboard
A new Gemini-powered feature called Sheets canvas turns rows of data into interactive mini-apps you describe in plain English.
Microsoft Is Merging Its Two Copilot Apps Into One Super App
The personal and work versions of Microsoft's AI assistant are being folded into a single unified app, but a few features won't survive the move.
You Can Build an AI Agent at Work This Week. Here's How.
No code required. Microsoft's Copilot lets anyone create a software assistant that monitors inboxes, writes reports and routes messages, automatically.
Free App Meetily Transcribes and Summarises Your Meetings Without Sending Data to the Cloud
Most AI meeting tools cost $10 to $20 a month and upload your conversations to someone else's servers. Meetily runs entirely on your own computer, for free, using open-source AI models.
A $9 physical key that locks your most distracting apps
Screen-time apps rely on willpower. This tiny NFC device makes you physically walk to unlock Instagram or TikTok, and it costs less than a large pizza.
OpenAI's $230 ChatGPT Keypad Is Fun for Power Users and Puzzling for Everyone Else
The company's first piece of hardware is a compact, customisable keypad called Micro. It costs as much as a decent webcam, and whether it's worth a cent depends entirely on how much of your day already runs through ChatGPT.
Superhuman's AI email assistant is getting good enough to actually use
A new auto-draft feature uses frontier AI models to write replies that match your tone. In testing, 60% of generated drafts were sent without any editing at all.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Work, an AI agent that reads your Slack, manages your calendar, and builds websites on your phone
The new tool, powered by GPT-5.6, can spend hours on a task without you lifting a finger. Here is what it does, who gets it, and what it costs to access.