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Assistants that act on captured context, producing drafts, documents and cross-app actions rather than only summarizing.
Google's Gemini '@Call for me' agent, on AI plans from $5 a month, will phone a shop or restaurant but is built to stop before any payment or card number. Paid bookings still need the user on the line to take over.
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Gemini can now be prompted from Gmail, Drive, Docs, Slides and Chat to assemble a deck or a spreadsheet in the background. Google's own post says twice that the sources it reads depend on the user's picks or the admin's.
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Anthropic's support note says the mode picker goes away in a staged rollout, and accounts that move over cannot return to separate Chat and Cowork options. Connected apps stay live while a task runs.
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RuntimeWire ran five assistants through the same nine tasks on September 16th with a single GPT-6 judge. All five refused the fake invoice and the lookalike payee; only Claude Cowork read the inbox the pack supplied.
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Perplexity's Personal Computer feature now runs on Windows 10 and 11 for paying subscribers, and the ZDNet hands-on suggests its output is only as trustworthy as the person who can already check it.
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The Plaud One Explorer Edition records the room from its charging case over its own 4G connection, which means the recorder that turns up in your Monday standup never touches the office Wi-Fi or a phone your IT team manages.
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