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Viven, the AI startup launched by the co-founders of Eightfold, has just raised $35 million in seed funding to revolutionize how teams collaborate. Announced on October 15, 2025, this funding round was led by Khosla Ventures and Foundation Capital, with additional participation from FPV Ventures and other investors. The announcement...

Google has just made managing your calendar a whole lot easier. The tech giant announced a new AI-powered feature in Gmail that can automatically schedule meetings for you in Google Calendar — acting like your very own virtual secretary. This smart “AI secretary” reads the context of your emails, understands...

Imagine sitting at your desk with a pile of raw data in front of you—a spreadsheet full of numbers, a table filled with text, or scattered notes. Traditionally, turning this into a polished, professional Microsoft Office document could take hours. Now, with Microsoft’s latest AI innovation, Copilot, this process is...

Otter.ai, once known mainly for its real-time transcription services, is now undergoing a bold transformation under CEO Sam Liang. What began as a tool for converting spoken words into written notes is evolving into a full-fledged platform that turns conversations into actionable business insights. Liang sees Otter.ai not just as...

In an exciting move set to reshape the world of conversational AI, OpenAI has introduced a way for third-party applications to run directly inside ChatGPT. This upgrade turns ChatGPT from a simple text-based chatbot into a versatile platform that can handle a variety of tasks, making it a central hub...

Microsoft is set to add Anthropic’s Claude AI models to its Microsoft Copilot suite in a strategic bid to widen its artificial intelligence capabilities. This marks a notable departure from Microsoft’s typical approach to AI, which has historically preferred to utilize OpenAI technology. Diversity AI Options for Business Users Microsoft...

Three former engineers from Google’s NotebookLM project have announced the launch of an application, Huxe – a new product in the artificial intelligence and productivity tools market. This app uses AI to revolutionize the way people consume news and information, essentially converting personal data, news, and research into personalized audio...

In a major about-turn for the AI world, Microsoft has revealed that it is to replace OpenAI’s technology with Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 in its Office 365 suite. Announced in September 2025, by moving Cortexica’s technology into Microsoft productivity tools such as Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint, it brings the...

May 15, 2019 In the age of Siri, we’re running out of reasons to type things. In a step towards the democratization of personal productivity, three ex-Google X scientists launched TwinMind, a cutting-edge AI startup product that aims to be your “second brain.” The ambitious project closed $5.7 million in...

Among the latest developments in the world of artificial intelligence is Claude AI, a revolutionary tool that promises to change how we work on mundane office tasks. Whether you need to create a complex spreadsheet or a slide deck that grabs attention, Claude AI is an all-new efficiency tool that...

An AI-powered productivity tool just hit a major milestone: Anthropic has unveiled that its AI assistant, Claude, can now build and edit spreadsheets, slide decks, documents, and PDFs directly within the tool’s chat interface. This new capability takes Claude beyond being a conversational AI to becoming a multi-purpose productivity assistant,...

In a major development for AI productivity and search apps, the Gemini app has announced audio file support, while Google’s Search and NotebookLM systems are also getting updates. These updates are intended to make AI tools more flexible, accessible, and useful for users, whether they are casual users or professionals...

There is a race to bring AI into our daily workflow. And one startup is trying to bring the giants down a peg. (Silicon Valley accelerator Y Combinator, to its credit, backed the company.) Today, Motion is announcing that it has raised a $38 million round at a new valuation,...

Love It or Not, In-House Technologists are Working For the Man (the Big One, Actually!)What’s good for the gander is awfully good for the goose—and yes, it matters in AI. Everything You Wanted to Know About Microsoft’s Experimental AI Features Artificial intelligence is changing fast—the way we work, learn, and...

In a Bid for Generative AI Supremacy In a bid to cement its place as a force in the generative AI field, Mistral AI unleashed a major update to its flagship chatbot, Le Chat. With this latest update come two significant productivity-enhancing features: Voice recognition A fresh “deep research” mode...

July 2025 — From AI Latest Byte Newsroom A significant milestone in artificial intelligence (AI) has been reached with the release of the powerful new feature in ChatGPT: ChatGPT is the first general-purpose AI agent, a type of AI that can act for you, operating your software applications to carry...

In a significant benchmark for AI-facilitated creativity, Anthropic has unveiled a stunning new capability in its Claude chatbot: the ability to use Canva directly within the chatbot interface. This novel integration allows users to: Author, Manipulate, Resize, and Summarize designs using natural language instructions. Whether you're a small business owner,...

The past couple of years have seen artificial intelligence (AI) leap out of the pages of science fiction and into our daily lives — often managing parts of our lives without us even realizing it. From suggesting the next video to watch, to serving reminders, fact-checking information, identifying spam, or...

AI has made great leaps in the past few years, and one of the most promising developments is Claude 4, the latest AI model from Anthropic. Named after Claude Shannon, the father of information theory, Claude 4 is much more than just another chatbot — it’s a super-smart AI assistant...

Amidst a climate of relentless technological advancement, it's often the most straightforward ideas that redefine the landscape. The newest addition to this canon of AI advancements is clever and incredibly handy: the ability to add calendar events from screenshots alone. That might not sound like a huge leap in AI...

In a major shift in the way people interact with their productivity tools, Google on Wednesday integrated its customizable Gemini chatbots directly into Docs, Sheets, and Gmail. It also represents a substantial step in the tech giant’s broader AI ambitions, pointing to a not-too-distant future in which work and communication...

In the age of information overload, time is a precious commodity. With millions of hours of content uploaded to YouTube every day, it’s daunting to consume everything that sparks your interest. Luckily, Gemini AI, developed by Google DeepMind, and other AI-powered tools have changed the game. Now, you can skim...

A Major Leap in Productivity Software In a big leap towards smarter, more intuitive productivity software, Google announced on Tuesday that it has added its robust Gemini AI model to Google Sheets. Gemini AI, designed to remove some of the guesswork that comes from spreadsheets (and the grunt work that...