Newly published
What's new
New tips, AI news and parts of the agents series in the order they came out. One more every working day.
Agents
A knowledge base for your agent: four rules and hooking it up to the NAS
How to build a company knowledge base from the first folder to deployment is covered by the big guide in Tips. This part is a short companion for readers of the series: four rules that tell you a base is sound, trust levels the guide does not cover, and connecting it to an agent on your own machine.
Agents
A text check that is not AI: rules that always apply
A model follows the rules most of the time. A check written as ordinary code follows them every time. What belongs in it, what does not, how to offer it to an agent as a tool and why it should stand at the end of every text that goes out.
Agents
Agent backups: what to save so it can be restored in ten minutes
After three months the agent has your memory, fine-tuned procedures and the keys to everything in a single folder. Which of that to back up, where, how often — and why the backup has to sit somewhere the agent itself can't reach.
Agents
Agent skills: how to teach it your procedure and how to tell it's learning badly
An agent you have to explain everything to again is just a more expensive chat. A skill is a written-down procedure that it loads by itself next time. How one comes about, what it looks like inside, how to fix it — and why an agent's learning should pass your review just like everything else.
Agents
An agent for a five-person company: who may assign what and who approves
An agent for one person is a tool. An agent for five people is a colleague, and it has to be clear who it answers to, who may do what and who pays for it. A three-role model, a shared channel instead of private messages, and five decisions to make before you switch it on.
Agents
An agent without a server: what routines in Claude can handle and where that road ends
Most of this series assumes a box that runs at home around the clock. If you don't have one and don't want one, you can get a large share of the benefit from the app alone. An honest comparison: what works without a server, what doesn't, and how to decide.
and 11 more from that day
- AgentsBrand style as an MCP server: colours, rules and photos the AI asks for itself
- AgentsOpenRouter: one key to hundreds of models, and a backup when your main one goes down
- AgentsSetup 4: memory over all your messages — Beeper and Hermes on a Synology
- AgentsSetup 5: Hermes on the Synology you already own — and a hundred things to give it
- AgentsSynology from outside: a private network instead of QuickConnect and open ports
- AgentsThe family agent: one NAS, two profiles and rules for the kids
- AgentsThe morning brief: one message instead of ten
- AgentsThree months with an agent: the audit after which you switch off half your tasks
- AgentsVoice instead of typing: the agent in the car and on a walk
- AgentsWhat a month with an agent costs: how to work it out before the bill arrives
- AgentsWhen the agent stops responding: from “it's silent” to the cause
AI news
ChatGPT now connects to iCloud: Apple mail and calendar in one conversation
The new iCloud Mail and iCloud Calendar plugins let ChatGPT search your inbox, prepare drafts and find free slots. Handy for anyone living in the Apple ecosystem.
AI news
Claude Duet: an assistant that works without you, for now US only
Anthropic has launched Claude Duet in research preview, a proactive agent that watches your email and calendar and prepares first steps. What it means for your work and what to watch out for.
AI news
ChatGPT can now make presentations: Slides in Space with shared editing and PowerPoint export
On October 16, OpenAI began gradually rolling out Slides. You can create and edit a deck in ChatGPT and write it together with colleagues — for now only on higher plans with Space.
AI news
Notion 3.8: external AI agents read your workspace, and connection management is Enterprise-only
Notion 3.8 lets you connect any MCP-compatible agent to read workspace context and update docs and task trackers. Connection management is Enterprise-only, per Notion's help page. Skills can sync to ChatGPT and Claude.
AI news
Claude moves into Google Docs, Sheets and Slides: it works right inside your file
Anthropic launched the Claude add-on for Google Workspace and connectors for Docs, Sheets and Slides. Claude edits text, writes formulas or builds slides, and leaves every change for you to approve.
AI news
ChatGPT answers interactively: Intelligent UI adds calculators, charts and forms
GPT-6 in the Chat tab brings Intelligent UI. ChatGPT decides on its own whether to answer in text or with an interactive element, such as a calculator, a chart or a checklist.
AI news
Gemini adds skills: run reusable instructions with a slash
Google is introducing "skills" in Gemini and Workspace — reusable instructions you can combine. They will gradually replace Gems, so it pays to start migrating early.
AI news
ChatGPT Space: shared pages and meeting notes in one place
OpenAI introduced Space, Pages and a Meetings plugin. A team can co-edit documents with AI and keep meeting notes and next steps together — for now only on higher plans.
AI news
Gemini Notebook now works as a source right inside Google Docs
Since September 25, 2026, Gemini in Docs can draw directly on your Gemini Notebooks — drafts are grounded in vetted sources and come with citations, with no copying between windows.
AI news
ChatGPT can now listen and work: voice connects to plugins and to Work
Since September 23, 2026, ChatGPT's voice mode works with plugins (email, calendar, Slack) and can even kick off tasks in ChatGPT Work. A spoken instruction can now draft a document or send an email directly.
AI news
Gemini in Workspace now connects to Salesforce, HubSpot and Asana via MCP
The Gemini side panel in Docs, Sheets, Slides and Chat can now pull data directly from seven common business tools — no tab-switching, no file downloads.
AI news
ChatGPT gets a Word add-in — free on every plan
The new ChatGPT add-in for Word can draft from notes, summarize a document, rewrite selected text and adjust formatting — right from a sidebar, with no copy-pasting between windows.
AI news
Notion adds a shared skills library for your whole team
Notion 3.7 lets you save how your team handles a specific task as a reusable 'skill' that anyone in the workspace can use — and you can even download it into other AI tools.
AI news
Gemini in Google Sheets now works on Android too
Data analysis, summaries and charts in Google Sheets now work from an Android phone — complex edits and formulas still need the web version.
AI news
Gemini now handles tasks across all of Workspace without switching apps
The Gemini side panel now offers the same capabilities in every Workspace app — spin up a spreadsheet from Gmail, send an email from Docs, or schedule a meeting from Chat.
Agents
Setup 3: a dynamic website with Claude, from zero to your own domain
An account, a connected GitHub, a first brief — and within a few weeks a website that finds its own topic every morning, writes an article and waits for you to approve it. That's exactly how the site you're reading came about.
Agents
A gateway for all models: one entrance instead of five accounts
Five models, five apps, five keys, and nobody knows what it costs. A gateway is a single endpoint with everything hidden behind it — the local model at home and the most expensive one in the cloud. And swapping one out takes a single line.
Agents
A safe way home: why a private network, not an open port
Forwarding a port on your router is the fastest way to hand your model to the entire internet. A private network makes it available only to your devices and takes ten minutes to set up — no public IP, no certificates, no holes in the firewall.
Agents
Agents are the product of the year and the risk of the year
In August 2026 alone, Grok Bot, Cursor Origin, Slack Code and Claudeforce all came out. They all solve the same thing: letting AI out of the chat and into your work. And they all run into the same question that nobody can answer elegantly — who vouches for it.
Agents
Company rules for agents on one page
A twenty-page policy nobody reads protects less than a single page that everyone has on the noticeboard. A complete template with eight points that takes five minutes to read and can be adopted this week.
Agents
Files from disk into the chat: how it actually works
“AI sees my files” means five different things with very different consequences for privacy. The difference between attaching, an index, a connector and direct access — and why you should know it before you upload a contract anywhere.
AI news
Gemini now remembers your instructions across all of Google Workspace
Custom instructions for Gemini, until now limited to Docs, now work in Gmail, Sheets, Slides, Drive, and Chat too. Set them once and the AI follows them everywhere.
and 23 more from that day
- AgentsHow much memory a model eats: quantisation made clear
- AgentsLaptop, phone, home machine: one control room, three screens
- AgentsLocal AI in an hour: your first model on your own computer
- AgentsMac mini as a home AI server
- AgentsMCP locally: giving the model hands on your own disk
- AgentsMeta Project OT: what happens when you go AI-native before you sort out governance
- AgentsModel, harness, agent: three words everyone mixes up
- AgentsOpen weights vs. closed models: when the downloaded one is enough
- AI newsOpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra: the new model builds documents and spreadsheets from your own template
- AgentsRouting by task: which model to use for what
- AgentsSetup 1: a gaming PC, three subscriptions, GitHub and a few websites
- AgentsSetup 2: a quiet server for the night shift
- AgentsTask queue and approvals: the agent prepares, you confirm
- AgentsTelegram as the control panel for your home AI
- AgentsThe control room: how to run your whole AI world from one place
- AgentsThe lethal trifecta: why agents are structurally vulnerable
- AgentsThe new question: what runs where and who is allowed to start it
- AgentsWhat local AI costs and what the cloud costs: an honest calculation
- AgentsWhat never to send to the cloud (and how to make sure of it)
- AgentsWhen the tool itself gets poisoned: the LiteLLM case
- AgentsWhere API keys belong (and where they definitely do not)
- AgentsWindows with Nvidia: the second route to your own AI
- AgentsYour own knowledge base: RAG without the myths
AI news
Claude Cowork gets its own browser: no extension, no shared passwords
Claude can now open a website, click, and fill in a form on its own, right inside the desktop app – no Chrome extension, no access to your bookmarks or passwords. Rolling out on the Pro, Max, and Team plans.
AI news
ChatGPT handles two Gmail accounts at once: work and personal in one conversation
OpenAI dropped the one-account-per-connector limit – you can now connect a second Gmail, Google Calendar, or Contacts account in ChatGPT, and it searches across both. If you're in the EU, check availability first; the connectors are still rolling out country by country.
Tip
AI in the newsroom: a journalist's guide
The hub for the whole journalism section: research, public data, writing, graphics, social media, and source protection. Eighteen prompts, one hard line.
Tip
From an article to social posts
One published article, five networks, five hooks. How to tease without clickbait, keep the facts intact, and handle a correction.
AI news
Google Slides can now record your presentation as a video – without leaving the editor
A new Record option in Google Slides uses Google Vids to capture a voiced walkthrough of your slides. The result is a finished video with a shareable link and a transcript you can edit afterwards.
Tip
Hlídač státu as a journalism tool
Contracts, subsidies, party donations, and the K-index right inside a conversation. Where a lead comes from and where data ends and an accusation begins.
Tip
How to write an email people answer
A complete guide to writing emails: subject lines, salutations, formal and casual English, ready-made wording for ten hard situations, and prompts for AI.
Tip
Change a text's tone without losing facts
Same facts, different register: news, analytical, explanatory, social. How to specify tone concretely and catch a model drifting into tabloid.
AI news
Anthropic launches Claude Academy – free courses on actually using AI at work
The new Claude Academy learning platform offers free courses from prompting basics to planning your week with AI. It also teaches the 4D framework for handing off work to an assistant sensibly.
AI news
Google Chat gets a universal command line: Ask Gemini searches your mail, Drive and calendar
The new Ask Gemini feature in Google Chat can search Gmail, Drive and Calendar with a single request, summarize a conversation, or schedule a meeting – without ever leaving the chat window.
AI news
Google Sheets can turn a spreadsheet into an interactive app – no code needed
The new Sheets canvas feature turns your spreadsheet into an interactive tool – a task board with draggable cards, a dashboard, or a form – just from a plain-language description. The data stays in sync with the original sheet.
AI news
ChatGPT can now open and edit your Google Drive files right inside the chat
Paid ChatGPT plans can now connect Google Drive: docs, sheets and slides open next to the conversation, and the AI can edit them directly – no more downloading and re-uploading.
Would you rather not check back?
Once a week I email the best of the new articles.
The Top 30 tips e-book, free — it lands in your inbox right away.
Then 1 tip a week · no spam · unsubscribe in one click