AI Tool Updates

ChatGPT ChatGPT now knows what time it is for you

It reads your local time more accurately during a conversation.

What changes You can say "by tomorrow morning" and mean it. Before, a timezone gap could land it on the wrong day.Source →

ChatGPT Long conversations open faster on the web

Messages load in chunks instead of pulling the whole thread at once.

What changes Less waiting when you reopen a project thread you have been running for weeks.Source →

ChatGPT Recent photos are one press away on iPhone

Press and hold the + button and your recent photos come up.

What changes One less step when you photograph a whiteboard or a document to ask about it.Source →

Google Workspace Record a talk straight from Google Slides

A record button using Google Vids now sits inside the Slides screen.

What changes You do not have to start a separate screen recorder to send a version to whoever could not attend.Source →

Google Workspace You can ask Gemini inside Google Chat

From August 26 you can call Gemini directly in a Chat conversation.

What changes No more copying a thread into another window. When a thread gets long you get the summary where the thread is.Source →

Google Workspace You can block a sender in Google Calendar

Blocking removes their current event and stops future ones from arriving.

What changes Keeps invitation spam from cluttering the calendar you actually run your week from.Source →

ChatGPT Quizzes and dictation land in the ChatGPT app

It can turn a conversation into a quiz, and you can move between typing and voice dictation.

What changes Useful for checking whether you actually absorbed a document, and for drafting out loud while you are moving.Source →

ChatGPT You can change memory settings on a project you already made

Open the project, use the three-dot menu, and switch how it remembers.

What changes You can turn memory off for the project holding company material while leaving it on elsewhere.Source →

Microsoft 365 Copilot Outlook Outlook comments on your wording while you write

Copilot gives feedback on tone and structure in a side chat as you draft.

What changes Worth having when there is nobody to read it over first, especially for a second-language email or an awkward one.Source →

Microsoft 365 Copilot Outlook Outlook pulls together what you need before a meeting

Copilot gathers the mail, files and past discussion tied to your next meeting.

What changes On a day of back-to-back meetings, less time spent remembering what the last one was about.Source →

Microsoft 365 Copilot PowerPoint Copilot builds slides in web PowerPoint too

What used to need the installed app now works in the browser.

What changes You can put a first draft together from a machine that is not your work PC.Source →

Gemini Gemini on Mac now edits by voice, not just transcribes

You can speak instructions and get corrections and summaries back.

What changes Worth trying when your hands are busy, or when a long meeting recording needs to become notes.Source →

Claude 앱 Claude's memory is now a list of entries

What used to be lumped together by day is stored as separate topics and updated during the conversation.

What changes You can see what it holds as discrete items, so a wrong one is easy to find and delete.Source →

Claude 앱 It shows where your month actually went

Settings > Reflect now has a monthly recap: topics covered, busiest day, peak hours.

What changes Something to point at when you write a retrospective or a status report and need to recall what you were really buried in.Source →

Claude 앱 Claude Cowork moves to web and mobile

Desktop-only until now. Rolling out from the Max plan onward.

What changes You can check progress and give the next instruction without being at your desk.Source →

Claude 앱 Claude can act on your Outlook mail and calendar

The Microsoft 365 connector goes beyond search: drafting and sending mail, creating calendar events.

What changes "Reply with this and book a follow-up next Tuesday" becomes one step. It is write access, so decide deliberately what you allow.Source →

Notion Notion adds a planning mode

A screen for laying out what happens in what order before you start.

What changes When several people are involved, you can agree on sequence before anyone makes a page.Source →

Notion Notion's mobile home screen is rebuilt

The layout you land on when you open the mobile app has been reworked.

What changes Fewer taps to reach the pages you open from your phone all the time.Source →