
Google is rolling out AI-powered voice assistant modes for Gmail, Docs, and Keep that allow you to manage the apps by talking to them. The real time conversational capabilities are called Gmail Live, Docs Live, and Keep Live, and like the Gemini Live experience for Google's chatbot, aim to make it easier to note down or find specific information when you're on the move or unable to do so manually. Gmail Live is primarily designed to surface details from your inbox without you h
Google is rolling out AI-powered voice assistant modes for its Gmail, Docs, and Keep apps that let users manage these applications through conversation rather than manual interaction. Gmail Live can retrieve and summarize specific information from emails, Docs Live can help format and structure documents, and Keep Live can transcribe notes with contextual understanding. These features aim to make it easier to access and organize information hands-free when users are unable to interact with their devices manually. The rollout began on mobile platforms globally in English, with availability varying by subscription tier and operating system.

While restaurant owners might look to generative AI as a shortcut to sprucing up their menu, customers can viscerally sense that something is wrong with the food.
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ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all suffered outages at nearly the exact same time for reasons that remain murky.

Most teams building a shopping assistant or agent rebuild the same scaffolding: an agent loop, a tool layer over the catalog, an approval gate, and an eval suite. Anthropic has now released that scaffolding as code. This week, they published anthropics/commerce-agents, a reference blueprint containing a shopping agent and a merchant agent, along with four runnable verticals: retail, travel, telecom and entertainment. It ships alongside two write-ups: a product announcement and an engineering de
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