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Google has extended its 'Take notes for me' feature in Meet with a new 'Quick notes' function that generates a one-page, high-level summary of a meeting with bullet points and checklists. The summary appears on the main tab of the auto-generated Google Doc, while full detailed notes remain available on a separate tab, and the same summary is emailed to participants.
A Wonder Tools newsletter roundup highlights 20 Google Docs capabilities that many regular users overlook, including voice typing, instant translation, smart chips, and AI-assisted proofreading. The piece frames these as practical productivity boosts hidden within a tool most people already use daily.
Anthropic is merging its Claude Cowork tool with Claude Chat, leaving users with just Claude Chat and Claude Code instead of three separate modes. The rollout begins with Pro and Max subscribers over the coming weeks, and the update also brings new Claude Docs and Claude Slides features plus Claude Design integrated directly into conversations.
Anthropic is merging its standalone Claude Cowork agent into the regular Claude chat interface, creating one unified product that automatically routes tasks without users choosing a mode. The rollout, starting with Pro and Max subscribers over coming weeks, also introduces new beta tools called Claude Docs, Slides and Design that let users create and export documents and presentations as PowerPoint or PDF files.
Anthropic introduced Claude Docs, letting users request documents such as briefs directly in a conversation, with options to share them privately or export to Google Docs and Microsoft Word. The company also added in-chat slide creation, exportable as PowerPoint or PDF, and merged the separate Cowork and Artifacts tools into a single unified interface.
Anthropic is unifying Claude's Cowork mode and regular chat into a single interface, letting users hand off long-running tasks or ask quick questions in the same conversation, with Claude continuing work even after the app is closed. The company also launched Claude Docs and Claude Slides, joining Claude Design, all now accessible directly within chat rather than as separate tools. The changes roll out in beta on Pro and Max plans over coming weeks, with Enterprise admins controlling activation.
Anthropic has rolled out Claude Docs and Claude Slides in beta, allowing users to create, edit and share documents and presentations directly from Claude chat conversations. The company also merged its regular chat and Cowork features into a single interface, making Artifacts and Claude Design tools accessible from any conversation. Shared work from Docs, Slides or Design lives at a single link users can open across devices, with support for real-time collaboration and comments similar to Google Docs.
Read the Docs disclosed that in mid-to-late June 2026 it suffered its largest-ever DDoS attack, with traffic peaking at roughly 5.5 million requests per minute—about 100 times normal levels—and lasting nearly ten days. The attack used millions of distributed IP addresses across many networks, including residential and hosting providers, and randomized HTTP headers and TLS fingerprints to evade detection while specifically targeting endpoints that bypass caching.
Instructors at the University of Baltimore's writing program are moving away from surveillance-style tracking of student edits in Google Docs toward assignments that deliberately incorporate generative AI. Using the university's BoodleBox platform, faculty built chatbots with personas like the 'Confrontational Parent' for students to debate in simulated scenarios, such as a mock school board meeting on book bans. New assignments now require transcripts of chatbot conversations, handwritten outlines, and video reflections alongside traditional writing.
Google has launched beta 'Live' voice features across Gmail, Docs and Keep, letting subscribers talk to these apps instead of typing. Users can ask Gmail to find or summarize emails, have Keep organize notes from spoken input, and tell Docs to draft or pull in content from Gmail, Chat and Drive. The features, first shown at Google's I/O conference in May, are currently limited to AI Plus, Pro and Ultra subscribers, with Docs support restricted to Pro and Ultra tiers.
Google is expanding its Gemini Live conversational AI, first shown at I/O, into three Workspace apps as Gmail Live, Docs Live, and Keep Live. Gmail Live lets users verbally query their inbox for details like meeting times, Docs Live acts as a spoken co-writer that can pull context from other Workspace apps, and Keep Live converts rambling voice notes into organized, actionable lists. The features are rolling out now to eligible paying Workspace subscribers.
Google has launched Gmail Live, Docs Live, and Keep Live, letting users speak naturally to search emails, draft documents, and organize notes instead of typing. Gmail Live can pull answers from across multiple emails in a conversational back-and-forth, Docs Live builds structured documents from spoken ideas while pulling context from Gmail, Drive, Chat and the web, and Keep Live turns rambling thoughts into organized notes and lists. The features are rolling out now to eligible Google AI subscribers, with Workspace availability expected soon.