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Google has been steadily integrating Gemini across Google Workspace, embedding AI into Docs, Gmail, Sheets, Slides, Drive, and Meet. With so many updates rolling out, the real question isn’t what Gemini can do; it’s what’s actually useful in day-to-day work. The best Gemini features are arguably the more practical tools that help you manage information faster, such as summarizing, drafting content, organizing data, and tracking all those meetings. Let’s go through all the best ones. The best Gemini features in Google Docs Image Credits:Google What Gemini in Docs does best is automatic summarization. Instead of digging through a long report or…

Artificial intelligence models are multiplying fast, and competition is stiff. With so many players crowding the space, which one will be the best — and who decides that? Arena, formerly LM Arena, has emerged as the de facto public leaderboard for frontier LLMs, influencing funding, launches, and PR cycles. In just seven months, the startup went from a UC Berkeley PhD research project to being valued at $1.7 billion.  Watch as Equity host Rebecca Bellan catches up with Arena co-founders Anastasios Angelopoulos and Wei-Lin Chiang about how their platform became the go-to leaderboard for frontier AI models, and how they’re trying to build a neutral benchmark even as companies like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic back…

Every new technology creates a new environment in which we work, but it’s not clear how AI will do that. One possibility is that the interface disappears entirely. That’s the vision of Josh Sirota, who founded the startup Eragon back in August and has just raised $12 million at a $100 million post-money valuation to build an agentic AI operating system for enterprise customers. There’s a simple thesis: “Software is dead,” Sirota says. Buttons and dialog boxes and pull down menus are a thing of the past, and future business will be done by prompt. Eragon is attempting to offer…

At Etsy, Zoë Weil helped to drive a billion-dollar increase in gross merchandise volume within a single year by improving the online marketplace’s AI ranking systems. With her new startup, Sequen, she aims to bring her and her co-founders’ years of AI research and product development to other businesses in the consumer space. The company, which just closed on $16 million in Series A funding, offers real-time personalization technology and ranking infrastructure — technology used by the world’s biggest tech firms but that has been inaccessible to other large consumer businesses because of the massive datasets required. While those outside…

The team behind Cove, a Sequoia-backed startup that was working on an AI-powered collaboration board, has joined Microsoft, according to an email sent to customers informing them that Cove’s service is shutting down. Cove was founded in late 2023 by Stephen Chau, Andy Szybalski, and Mike Chu, all of whom worked on Google Maps features like Street View. The startup raised $6 million in a seed round from Sequoia Capital, Elad Gil, Homebrew, Adverb, Scott Belsky, and Lenny Rachitsky in 2024. Its tool was an infinite whiteboard where AI can generate different blocks for tasks like trip planning. The founders…

When Chris Bedi joined ServiceNow as chief digital information officer in September 2015, he oversaw a small team of data scientists focused on AI and machine learning development. Loading audio narration… Fast forward to 2023, when ServiceNow was piloting applications of generative artificial intelligence internally, with a focus on 15 ways the tech could automate employees’ repetitive tasks. No longer seen as just a range of tech products for internal stakeholders, these pilots were designed to pave the way for ServiceNow’s AI offerings for clients.In May 2024, Bedi became the company’s chief customer officer, and Kellie Romack, who the company…

The protein craze has hit everything from social media recipes to snack food aisles at the grocery store, but with the influx of options — which includes processed versions of popular foods marketed for mass appeal — consumers should consider the full picture of dietary health.ABC News chief medical correspondent and cardiologist Dr. Tara Narula weighed in on the protein trend with nutrition insights to help consumers make informed decisions about dietary choices amid an influx of protein-laden products.There are three major factors driving the trend toward protein right now, according to Narula.Piotr_malczyk/STOCK PHOTO/Getty Images – PHOTO: Stock photo of…

VILLA RICA, Ga. (AP) — Shaquille O’Neal is offering to pay for the funeral of a 12-year-old Georgia girl who died a few days after she collapsed following a fight after school.The former NBA superstar said he doesn’t want the family of Jada Smith to deal with the financial burden of a funeral while grieving for the sixth grader, who died at a hospital March 8.“As a father, my heart goes out to Jayda’s family,” O’Neal said in a statement. “No parent should ever have to bury their child, and if there is anything I can do to ease even…

The U.S. Department of Defense said on Tuesday evening that Anthropic poses an “unacceptable risk to national security,” marking the agency’s first rebuttal to the AI lab’s lawsuits challenging Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision last month to label the company a supply chain risk. As part of its complaints, Anthropic had requested the court temporarily block the DOD from enforcing its label. The crux of the DOD’s argument, made in a 40-page filing in a California federal court, is the concern that Anthropic might “attempt to disable its technology or preemptively alter the behavior of its model” before or during…

Recently, a patient came to the hospital where I work with a persistent cough. Their doctor had ordered a CT scan – a type of imaging that creates detailed cross-sectional pictures of the body’s interior – to look for pneumonia or another infection.The scan ruled that out, but it also showed something unexpected: calcium buildup in the walls of the coronary arteries. That finding had nothing to do with the cough, but it pointed toward a much more serious problem. After weighing other risk factors, the patient and their doctor decided to start medication to reduce the risk of a…