Claude builds the plan during the meeting, and ChatGPT lets US stores publish a sales agent

It joins the call as a visible participant. While people talk, it drafts the plan under discussion, lays out the timeline on a shared whiteboard and pulls figures from connected work apps. Notetakers, including Gemini in Google Meet, already turn a call into a summary and a list of action items once it ends. Claude produces the working documents themselves, before anyone hangs up.

That moves the recap into the meeting. Today someone spends the hour after a call turning notes into a plan and sends it around, and the corrections arrive by email two days later: the deadline was the 14th, and finance never agreed to the extra shift. When the plan is on screen while everyone is still there, each correction takes a minute.

For example, an operations manager planning peak season could talk through staffing with her shift leads while Claude builds the rota in a shared spreadsheet, with last year's overtime pulled from a connected app. Someone asks what happens if hiring starts two weeks late, and the sheet shows the overtime that follows. For a manager who runs five planning meetings a week and writes up each one, that is about five hours back.

It is a test version for Team and Enterprise plans, on Google Meet only, and it leaves when an outside guest joins unless an administrator allows it. So for now it changes internal planning meetings, and their last five minutes become the time to read the draft together.

When ChatGPT names a store in an answer, a shopper can open a separate, labeled chat with the store's own agent, which answers from what the store wrote. Publishing one is free at launch, and a paid ChatGPT ad can send shoppers to the same agent. So the agent costs nothing, and the store pays only to bring customers to it.

The store does not see the chats, so it cannot learn from what shoppers asked. The answers have to come from its own inbox: the 20 questions that customer service answers most, written out once.

A year ago, agents finished just 2.5% of such jobs to a standard a client would accept. The work that goes first has a clear brief and a result anyone can check, such as a product catalog moved into a new format.

That makes a trial run cheap for anyone who buys freelance work. Give the brief to an agent before posting the job. If the result is acceptable, the job is done that afternoon. If it fails, the failure usually shows what the brief left out, and the freelancer gets a better brief.

Grok Build turns a chat with Grok into a working app. When an app was published, the sharing setting came preselected as "Anyone with the link". Some of the open apps held staff medical exams, sales plans and passwords.

A random address looks private, but these did not stay secret. Before a browser opens a web address, it asks the internet's directory for the number of the server. Some companies record those requests and sell searchable lists of every name ever asked for. Once anyone opened a shared app, its address was on those lists.

In a test app limited to a sales team, even a Google account that nobody invited signed in and changed records. Before staff share an app that holds customer data, have someone try to open it with an account that was never invited.

Soon, previewing a PDF in Gmail or Drive will offer an "Edit with" button that opens it in Acrobat, so a contract that needs one date changed no longer has to be downloaded and opened separately. In Gemini, Acrobat will join Adobe's connectors, so a PDF can be edited inside a chat, as it already can in ChatGPT.

With the same Acrobat inside both assistants, PDF tools stop being a reason to choose one over the other. The choice comes down to which assistant can already reach the company's own files and mail.

Factories learned that a century ago. Owners replaced the steam engine with one large electric motor that turned the same shafts, and output barely moved until each machine got its own motor.

Many office steps exist only because work used to be slow. A distributor that checks new customers' credit in a morning batch makes each new order wait a day. If AI checks credit in two minutes and the batch stays, the order still waits. Remove the batch, and it ships the same day.