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20 events 7 over 7 days ↓ 12 % 13 sources report highest score 82

Importance: monitoring OpenAI Productivity 1 source

The club The Den uses the product ChatGPT Work to prepare grant applications and licensing documents

When opening a new location, the club The Den uses the product ChatGPT Work for grant applications and documents for an alcohol sales license. According to OpenAI, this saves it 10–15 hours per week; preparing applications takes 2 hours instead of 3 days, and licensing documents take 3 hours instead of 4 days.

Importance: monitoring Productivity 1 source

Heureka Group deployed AI to automate product catalogs, cut loss by a fifth

Heureka Group has deployed artificial intelligence to automate product data – it processes 5 mln. product matches, 4 mln. parameters, and 300 thousand descriptions every month. The company also cut its annual loss by a fifth to CZK 321 mln.

Importance: major Google Productivity update ✓ 4

Google launches Call for Me: the Gemini assistant calls businesses for users on Pixel 11

Google has launched the experimental Call for Me feature, in which the Gemini model calls businesses on behalf of the user – handling reservations as well as availability inquiries. It builds on the earlier Google Duplex; similar calls are also offered by Meta's AI agents Muse and Instinct.

New: The feature builds on the earlier Google Duplex experiment; Meta offers similar capabilities with its AI agents Muse and Instinct; Google is deliberately starting small because of the nuances of real conversations; the primary source of the news is TechCrunch.

Importance: monitoring Google Productivity ✓ official

Google's Gemini product expands Connected Apps with 14 new partner apps

Google has launched an expansion of Connected Apps in the Gemini product with 14 new partner apps (Airtable, Linear, Adobe, Webflow, Peloton, among others) for productivity, creativity, and lifestyle, controllable via @ mention in chat.

Importance: monitoring Productivity 1 source

Spotify launches Taste Profile feature in the US for adjusting recommendations via natural language

Starting Wednesday, Spotify is launching the Taste Profile feature in the US for Premium subscribers (18+), allowing users to adjust the recommendation algorithm for music, podcasts, and audiobooks using natural language. The feature also affects Discover Weekly and Spotify Wrapped and is currently in beta.

Importance: monitoring Productivity 1 source

AT&T is deploying AI in network operations; an internal source speaks of a target to reduce the workforce to 85 000 by 2030

AT&T is deploying AI in network management, customer service and code development, and starting next year it will replace hardware at thousands of nodes with cloud software from DriveNets. An internal source cites a target of reducing the workforce from 131 000 to 85 000 employees by 2030; the company called this figure inaccurate.

Importance: monitoring Productivity 1 source

Interview: How AI is changing the role of teachers and teaching in schools

An interview on Živě.cz with AI education advocate Marek Dědič about how AI has become a routine part of schools, why bans are not enough, and how to teach students to think critically about chatbots.

Importance: monitoring Amazon Productivity 1 source

Posit made the Positron IDE available inside Amazon SageMaker AI

Posit has integrated the Positron IDE with Amazon SageMaker AI — data scientists can combine R, Python, XGBoost, Shiny and Quarto in one environment with an optional AI assistant connected through Amazon Bedrock. It requires an ml.t3.xlarge instance or larger.

Importance: monitoring Productivity 1 source

Czech accounting firm This One deployed AI for 40 percent of its work

According to its management, Czech accounting firm This One lets AI perform 40 percent of its work, invests 10-15 percent of revenue in technology annually, and turns away clients who insist on paper-based processes.

Importance: monitoring Productivity 1 source

AI resume generators are flooding recruitment with applications, recruiters want to deliberately make the process harder

Companies such as Vendr and Greenhouse report that AI resume generators and automated application tools have increased the number of job applications from dozens to thousands a day. Some applications are fake or AI-generated, so recruiters now want to bring deliberate obstacles back into the process.