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Hello AI Enthusiasts,
An unpaid invoice. A client meeting. A follow-up buried in email.
Anthropic’s new Claude Duet is designed to notice work that needs attention—and prepare it while you’re away.
Today: a first look at Duet, shared editing inside ChatGPT Slides, and Gemini’s new small-business tools.
Later in this issue: Turn one product photo into campaign mockups with our Nano Banana guide.
🧠 Claude’s new app comes to you first
Anthropic introduced Claude Duet, a proactive agent designed for professionals and small-business owners. It checks connected apps, sends a morning brief and works on tasks in the background—even when your devices are off.
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Three things to know:
It flags unfinished work. Connected accounts are checked every few hours.
It prepares the next step. Examples include finding unpaid invoices, drafting follow-ups and preparing meeting briefs.
Important actions need approval. Anthropic says it waits before sending messages, making payments, signing documents or deleting information.
Why it matters: You could spend less time checking different apps for work that needs your attention.
Check access: Research preview by waitlist, initially for U.S. Pro and Max subscribers, on iOS, Android and claude.ai. Background activity shares your Claude usage limits.
The useful check: Start with a task you can review easily. Anthropic acknowledges Duet can misread conversations or misjudge urgency.
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📊 Your team can edit slides together in ChatGPT
ChatGPT Slides now supports shared editing and comments, alongside changes made directly on the slide.
What you can do:
Invite teammates to view, comment or edit.
Change text, update charts, and move or resize images and shapes.
Ask ChatGPT to turn your team’s comments into revisions.
Present inside ChatGPT, or export to PowerPoint or Google Slides.
Why it matters: A client proposal could move from first draft to team review in the same workspace.
Check access: Available on Pro, Business and Enterprise plans.
Get started: Ask ChatGPT to “create ChatGPT slides” from a conversation or file. Check the facts, figures and exported layout before sharing.
🎨 Stop re-explaining your brand to Gemini
Google has introduced a business landing page in Gemini for branding, financial analysis and customer insights. Businesses can upload a website, brand kit, fonts or color palette. Google says Gemini retains that visual style for future image generation with Nano Banana 2.1.
Image source: New Gemini business landing page and tools launched
The announcement also includes connections to tools such as Canva, Shopify, Wix and Xero.
Why it matters: Creating the next campaign asset could involve less repeated setup.
Check access: Google says the rollout is beginning globally for all Gemini app users. Check which features and connections appear in your account.
The useful check: Compare generated assets with your brand guidelines. Inspect product details and wording before publishing.
One broken step can stop your AI product from serving customers. Here’s how to catch it before your users do.
When one tool fails, your AI agent can quietly break everything after it, from customer replies to orders and receipts. In this live, hands-on workshop, Denis Rothman shows your team how to spot weak points before launch and build agents customers can rely on. Sun, Oct 25, 9 AM ET, online.
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An Affirm administrative role asks for AI curiosity, with location-dependent pay reaching $165K. Sunday Special #70 also includes remote career picks and two hackathons offering $75K in combined cash prizes.
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📘 From our DIY guides
One product photo. Several campaign ideas.
Our Nano Banana walkthrough turns a product photo into advertising concepts, displays and packaging mockups.
Use the same original photo to compare outputs.
Watch for: Invented prices, slogans and product details. A convincing image still needs review.
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Why does your mind keep replaying that moment?
The Wednesday Reset explores Yale research on stress and emotional memory, AI journaling tools and when recurring memories deserve support.
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Choose one piece of work you repeat.
Give AI the source material, define a useful result and check what comes back.
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