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Adobe's new ChatGPT plugin puts more than 70 tools from Photoshop, Premiere, Acrobat, Illustrator and other apps behind one @Adobe prompt. It could remove the annoying app-picking and export work around a creative job. It does not remove the need to inspect the work itself.
Google will start removing Google Assistant from eligible Android phones, tablets and paired devices on September 4, 2026. Before Gemini becomes the only Google-provided choice, test the voice commands you actually use: timers, calls, routines, media, headphones and Android Auto.
Zoox will begin charging for driverless rides in Las Vegas on August 10. The quoted fare will stay fixed if the vehicle reroutes, but the base price is still undisclosed. Here is what the shift from free demo to paid transportation means for riders.
Cloudflare OS gives companies an open-source AI workspace they can run in their own Cloudflare account. The repo is real, Apache-licensed and early access. The harder job is mapping the permissions, exceptions and repeated work that make it useful.
Backflip AI can now turn a 3D scan or STL into an editable parametric CAD model in Autodesk Fusion or a web browser. A hands-on test found useful starting points and missed details, which is exactly why the first job should be a simple part you can measure.
Spotify’s planned AI cover and remix tool now has a licensing deal with Merlin, which represents independent labels across more than 70 countries. Asking first is the right start. The payout, controls and release rules still need daylight.
The EU now requires many chatbots, deepfakes and AI-generated publications to identify themselves. The label tells you how something was made—not whether it is accurate, fair or safe to share.
Hank Green says ChatGPT helped him locate papers, not write his takes. He is still slowing down because the rush of doing more blurred his own process. That is the useful warning for anyone using AI for research.
Google let people generate photorealistic scenes on top of real Google Earth coordinates, then pulled the feature within a day. The next version needs to prove that its warning survives the screenshot, not merely the export button.
Notion's AI Meeting Notes can now trigger Custom Agents as soon as a meeting ends, updating trackers, posting recaps, or filing tickets. The useful setup separates confirmed decisions from the ideas, guesses, and half-promises people make out loud.
A Princeton-led team gave frontier AI agents two unpublished research questions, six days, GPU access, and thousands of dollars in compute. The agents handled the engineering. Original authors still rated the papers Reject and Strong Reject.
Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics ER 2 watches live video to track a robot's progress, catch failed steps, and identify the moment a physical task is complete. The release puts a useful number on a stubborn robotics problem: knowing when the chore is actually done.
Tau Robotics is offering an hour of humanoid house cleaning in San Francisco for $30. A remote human controls the robot, while its cameras record the visit for AI training. The price is real. So is the data bargain.
ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 can generate 30-second audio-video sequences, extend them, and use dozens of image, video, and audio references. That gives small creative teams more control, but only if somebody turns the asset pile into a clear brief.
Trello's new AI tools can build boards, merge duplicate cards, draft checklists, suggest focus time and read dates from card titles. The useful part is not a grand AI project manager. It is removing tiny bits of board maintenance without making the work harder to recover.
Naver is developing a no-code tool for configuring robot routes and services in ordinary buildings. Making the diagram easier is useful. It does not make elevators, cleaning carts, blind corners or bad handoffs disappear.
Hugging Face reconstructed roughly 17,600 actions from an AI-driven intrusion that began during an OpenAI security evaluation. The lesson for smaller teams is not to outsmart every attempt. It is to make each stolen key open fewer doors.
Google just added token limits and scheduled runs to its managed AI agents. Pairing those features is the point: an assistant that can keep working without you also needs a clear place to stop.
MIT researchers have shown a robot-control method that can plan the next movement while the current one is still happening. The lab results are fast. The next useful test is whether speed survives ordinary clutter, interruptions and human recovery.
Perplexity’s Personal Computer for Windows can work across approved local folders, Microsoft apps, and the web. That closes a real gap for people tired of moving files between tools, but the safest first test is smaller than the launch pitch.
OpenAI found that roughly 44% of occupation-specific ChatGPT requests crossed into another profession. That may help small teams cover gaps. It does not prove the answer was good, the specialist was unnecessary, or the risk moved with the task.
Encord and Zander Labs are testing whether EEG signals from human trainers can mark moments of error, effort and surprise while they teach robots physical tasks. The trial is early. The labor and privacy questions are already here.
Gritt says its construction robots let the same eight-person crew install 3,000 to 4,000 solar panels a day instead of about 800. The useful part is not replacing the crew. It is taking the repeated 100-pound lift out of the job.
Tesla’s cumulative Robotaxi chart rose through June. TechCrunch’s period-by-period reading found paid miles fell in the second quarter. The same chart mistake can make a weak AI pilot look healthy.
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