Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise | | | Good morning, AI enthusiasts. While Apple keeps pushing back Siri's AI makeover by years, Google just dropped a phone with over 20 AI features that actually work… Today. | With features like conversational photo editing (maybe nano-banana?), proactive AI suggestions, and Gemini Live upgrades, Google's new Pixel lineup is making Apple's AI struggles even more glaring in the smartphone wars. | | In today's AI rundown: | New Google Pixel lineup goes big on AI NASA, IBM launch AI to decode the sun Use GPT-5 in Microsoft 365 to analyze emails Gemini expands to the home with Nest 4 new AI tools, community workflows, and more
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| The Rundown: Google just unveiled the Pixel 10 lineup at its star-studded 'Made by Google' event, powered by a new Tensor G5 chip and packed with 20+ AI features, including advanced photo editing, 'Magic Cue' suggestions, live translations, and more. | The details: | A new 'Visual Guidance' upgrade allows Gemini Live to give real-time visual cues on a user's phone screen. The Pixel 10 family gains conversational photo editing capabilities via natural language prompts, rumored to be the hyped nano-banana model. Magic Cue proactively surfaces context across apps like Gmail, Calendar, and Messages, suggesting replies with info like flight details or restaurant bookings. Voice Translate transforms phone calls in real time across 10 languages, preserving the speaker's actual voice rather than robotic translations. Google's new Tensor G5 chip delivers 60% faster AI processing with a 4B parameter Gemini Nano model running entirely on-device for privacy. Other features include an AI-powered Pixel Journal app, NotebookLM integration, AI photography tools, and more. The lineup features three different variations (Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, and Pixel 10 Pro XL), starting from $799-$1199.
| Why it matters: It's hard to overstate the drastic difference in AI features now available in Google's lineup compared to Apple. Google's Rick Osterloh even seemingly took a shot at the rival, noting "a lot of broken promises" with AI in phones. Google continues to ship, making Apple's issues an even bigger setback in the smartphone wars. |
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| The Rundown: NASA and IBM just released Surya, a new AI foundation model trained on nine years of solar observations that predicts solar flares and space weather events with extreme accuracy. | The details: | Surya analyzed millions of images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, learning to forecast solar eruptions and beating existing predictions by 16%. Surya tracks everything from emerging sunspots to solar wind speeds, helping protect satellites, power grids, and astronauts from dangerous radiation bursts. The system processes multiple wavelengths simultaneously, spotting small changes that human analysts miss across the Sun's shifting surface. NASA open-sourced the model on HuggingFace, letting researchers tap into its solar pattern recognition for their own space weather projects.
| Why it matters: Solar storms cause chaos to tech across the globe. With commercial space traffic exploding and infrastructure increasingly vulnerable, having an AI that can read and predict solar events could save billions in damaged equipment and lost services, while also increasing our understanding of the Sun in the process. |
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| | AI TRAINING | | | The Rundown: In this tutorial, you will learn how to leverage GPT-5 through Microsoft Copilot to automatically search your email history, analyze complex threads, and generate personalized replies that perfectly match your writing style. | Step-by-step: | Open Microsoft Edge and click the Copilot ribbon (top right) - sign in with your Microsoft account for free access Enable "Smart" mode in Copilot to connect your Outlook data (Enterprise users need admin approval for Microsoft Graph access) Prompt: "Summarize my most recent 10 emails with bullet points on what needs replies today, then draft responses in my usual tone" GPT-5 analyzes your entire email history, extracting key decisions, recent developments, and your typical communication patterns Review the AI-generated reply and refine with prompts like "Make this more formal" or "Add timeline details"
| Pro tip: Create context-aware templates by prompting "Analyze my email patterns with executives vs. team members, then draft this using my appropriate tone for a [C-level/peer/direct report]" for perfectly calibrated responses. |
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| | PRESENTED BY ZAPIER | | | The Rundown: Join Zapier live on Sept. 25 at 9 AM PST for ZapConnect, a virtual event that spotlights the power of AI to drive real-world results through hands-on workshops, actionable tips, and lessons from cutting-edge organizations. | Attend ZapConnect and experience: | | Register for free. |
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| | GOOGLE | |  | Image source: Google |
| The Rundown: Google just announced that the company is replacing its AI Assistant with Gemini across its Nest home speaker and display lines this fall, bringing advanced conversational AI, Gemini Live, and multi-device awareness to smart home control. | The details: | Gemini for Home understands complex commands and can also handle multiple requests in a single sentence without requiring rigid voice commands. The system will use Gemini Live for natural conversations, with use cases like providing dinner ideas based on fridge contents or troubleshooting appliances. Google is planning both free and paid tiers with early access beginning through a preview program in October before a broader rollout.
| Why it matters: Between Amazon's AI revamp of Alexa, Samsung's AI appliance ecosystem, Apple's rumored devices and Google, the race to bring AI into the home is getting more competitive than ever — and while it still feels like we're only in the early stages of AI hardware actually being useful, the upgrades are coming fast. |
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| | | | | 🐳 DeepSeek V3.1 - Model update with improved intelligence, context window 💬 Chat Mode - Build text-only conversational agents with ElevenLabs 🎥 Wonda - Wondercraft's AI agent for video and audio content creation 🗣️ April - Speak with your inbox and calendar using AI
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| | | Sam Altman spoke on GPT-6 at last week's dinner, saying the release will be focused on memory, with the model arriving quicker than the time between GPT-4 and 5. | Microsoft and the National Football League expanded their partnership to integrate AI across the sport in areas like officiating, scouting, operations, and fan experience. | AnhPhu Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio launched Halo, a new entry into the AI smartglasses category, with always-on listening. | Google teased a new Gemini-powered health coach coming to Fitbit, able to provide personalized fitness, sleep, and wellness advice customized to users' data. | Anthropic rolled out its Claude Code agentic coding tool to Enterprise and Team plans, featuring new admin control for managing spend, policy settings, and more. | MIT's NANDA initiative found that just 5% of enterprise AI deployments are driving revenue, with learning gaps and flawed integrations holding back the tech. | OpenAI's Sebastien Bubeck claimed that GPT-5-pro is able to 'prove new interesting mathematics', using the model to complete an open complex problem. |
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| | | | | Every newsletter, we showcase how a reader is using AI to work smarter, save time, or make life easier. | Today's workflow comes from reader Nick E. in Kansas City, KS: | "I built a custom GPT that's basically my sales brain with an attitude. Before AI, writing prospecting emails meant wasting an hour wrestling with a blinking cursor and ending up with something that sounded like corporate oatmeal. Now, in minutes, this thing cranks out sharp, direct scripts that actually get replies. It's like having a ruthless sales coach trapped in my laptop except it doesn't bill me by the hour, roll its eyes, or suggest I circle back one more time." | How are you using AI in your work? Tell us here. |
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