Building a slide deck from scratch is one of those tasks that eats hours without adding much value. Three AI tools now promise to handle the first draft: Copilot in PowerPoint, Gemini in Google Slides and the standalone service Gamma. Each follows a different logic, and choosing the wrong one for your setup can waste … Read more
Google is turning Gemini into a small-business operations console. The company has added a permanent business page inside the Gemini app that combines brand-building tools, financial analysis and connectors to outside services including Shopify, Xero, Canva, Adobe, Dropbox, Wix and Zoho, alongside Google’s own Business Profile, Ads and Workspace. The feature was announced on October … Read more
At its Gemini at Work event on October 8, 2026, Google Cloud unveiled the Gemini agent: one universal work agent that answers questions, performs knowledge work, generates media, and writes and runs code from a single prompt box. The real story is the architecture — an agent that creates synthetic coworkers with their own identities, … Read more
The Document Foundation has shipped LibreOffice 26.8 with a message that would have sounded like an apology three years ago and now lands as a deliberate market play: the suite contains no generative AI, and that omission is the pitch. Released on 26 August 2026, with the formal “no AI” policy statement following on 3 … Read more