What’s changed, why it matters to your work, and something useful to try next.
If you use a Samsung Galaxy foldable, Gemini can now handle more day-to-day tasks - like booking travel or shopping - across 40+ apps without you manually switching between them, and Gemini Notebook comes preinstalled so you can turn research into a slide deck or podcast without opening a separate app.
If you run or work in a large customer-support or operations team, this is a platform your IT or vendor-management team might soon evaluate — it is built for handing real customer interactions to an AI agent while keeping human oversight and escalation in place, rather than a DIY chatbot. It is currently limited to a small group of enterprise customers, so it is one to watch rather than adopt immediately.
Useful if you are curious about how AI is actually being used across different jobs and industries — you can now just ask Claude directly (no setup required) questions like which occupations or tasks rely on AI the most, drawing on Anthropic's own usage data. Handy for L&D or workforce-planning conversations where you want a data point rather than a guess.
For anyone wary of an AI agent running off and doing the wrong thing, Plan Mode lets you see and edit its intended approach before any work happens — a way to stay in control and catch mistakes early, whether at the start of a task or partway through it.
If your inbox is out of control, this free Outlook add-in summarises long email threads so you can catch up fast, drafts contextual replies for you to review and send, and helps keep the inbox organised. It's a practical way to cut down time spent reading and re-reading email chains before you can respond.
If spreadsheets aren't your strong suit, this free Excel add-in lets you ask questions in plain English, get formulas written for you from a description, and run scenario analysis directly in your workbook. Instead of googling a formula or building a what-if model from scratch, you describe what you need and Grok builds it in the sheet.
If you use the ChatGPT desktop app for both quick questions and longer Work tasks, this update makes it easier to find things - your Chat and Work conversations now sit together in one Recents list you can sort and pin, your Projects show up in the app, and a task you start on desktop now follows you to other devices.
Useful if you have a task you do on a schedule or in response to a trigger — like checking a file, pulling a report, or acting on new data — Automations lets Grok run that job independently using your files, connectors and skills, and keeps a history of what it did. That turns a recurring manual chore into something that runs itself and leaves an audit trail you can check later.
Mainly relevant if your work involves coding or other structured knowledge work — this is xAI's strongest model, purpose-built for agentic and coding tasks and trained partly on real developer session data with Cursor. Non-technical users would mostly experience this indirectly through better performance in Grok-based tools rather than using the model directly.
For teams that build their own custom Copilot agents in-house. You can now formally submit an internally built agent to a private, admin-reviewed section of the Agent Store, making it easier for colleagues to find and reuse an agent your team already built instead of everyone starting from scratch.
For anyone already using MCP-connected agents at work. Those agents are now reachable directly inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Catalyst, so you can call on them without leaving the document or app you're working in.
A general roundup of admin-facing Copilot changes — agent publishing to the Agent Store, an org-wide prompt gallery, MCP agent access inside Office apps, brand kit generation, and connector permission handling. Most useful to IT/Copilot admins wanting one view of what changed, rather than something typical end users need to act on.
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