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
Corporate AI adoption is running into an unglamorous bottleneck: messy spreadsheets. A formula suggested by an AI assistant cannot rescue a poorly organized report, and a polished explanation can still conceal a wrong calculation. That is the premise behind a wave of subsidized training programs that pair Excel skills with practical AI use, funded through … Read more
Anthropic has opened a research preview of Claude Duet, a standalone app in which Claude stops waiting to be prompted and starts acting on its own. Announced on 21 October, Duet runs on a dedicated computer in the cloud with its own browser, watches the applications a subscriber connects, and keeps working after the laptop … Read more
OpenAI has quietly turned its ChatGPT extension for Chrome into something much closer to an autonomous assistant. In an update announced on October 15, 2026, the add-on gained the ability to read every tab a user has open and to act inside those pages — filling out forms, sending messages, downloading files and grouping a … Read more
Microsoft has shipped Windows App 2.5, the most substantial refresh of its remote-access client since Remote Desktop was rebranded as Windows App in 2024. Announced on the Windows blog on 13 October 2026 and available immediately on Windows, macOS, iOS, Android and the web, the release turns what was once a narrow utility for reaching … Read more