|
Tip of the Week: Use ChatGPT's Canvas as an Editing Room to Refine Documents Without Re-Prompting (Open AI)
Most of us have developed the same habit without realizing it: ask ChatGPT something, copy the output into Word, edit it, decide something needs changing, go back to ChatGPT, re-explain the context, copy again, paste again. Repeat until finished or frustrated.
Canvas breaks that loop. It's a live document workspace inside ChatGPT, think of it as tracked changes with a very patient colleague who never loses the thread.
Your document stays in view on one side, the conversation continues on the other, and the context never resets. You highlight a specific paragraph or sentence, and ask for exactly what you need. The AI edits that piece in place. Everything else stays untouched.
The key shift is precision. Instead of re-prompting from scratch every time you want a change, you point. That one workflow change saves more time than it sounds, especially on longer documents like contracts, reports, or stakeholder emails.
Learn more about OpenAI's Canvas and how to use it here.
Prompt In, File Out: Gemini Delivers Docs, PDFs, and Spreadsheets Instantly (Google - The Keyword)
It just got easier to turn your best ideas into downloadable and ready-to-share files. With just a prompt, Gemini can now create PDFs, Microsoft Word and Excel files, Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and more directly in your chat, meaning you can quickly move from a brainstorm to a complete file without ever leaving the Gemini app.
Instead of copying, pasting and reformatting, this update will allow you to easily move your work into different applications. The feature is now available to all Gemini app users globally. Head to Gemini and explain the file you need.
Oversight Gate: White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released (New York Times)
President Trump, who promoted a hands-off approach to artificial intelligence and gave Silicon Valley free rein to roll out the technology, is considering the introduction of government oversight over new A.I. models.
The administration is discussing an executive order to create an A.I. working group that would bring together tech executives and government officials to examine potential oversight procedures. Among the potential plans is a formal government review process for new A.I. models, the New York Times reports.
The working group is likely to consider a number of oversight approaches, officials said. But a review process could be similar to one being developed in Britain, which has assigned several government bodies to ensure that A.I. models meet certain safety standards.
Rewriting Online Security: Passkeys Are the New Passwords. You Should Start Using Them Now. (New York Times - Wirecutter)
For 15 years, experts have said that passwords are the biggest problem with online security, and that’s just the way it is. The passwords that people make up are easily guessed by machines, and the ones that can’t be guessed are too hard to remember.
Over time, as more and more passwords became necessary, many people simply recycled theirs across different accounts — creating a precarious situation where one phished password or data breach gave an attacker access to the victim's email, bank accounts, and anything else that shared that password.
But passkeys are different. Instead of trying to fix unfixable passwords, passkeys are an entirely new technology that securely logs you in without your needing to remember your password or to perform a two-factor authentication ritual.
Identity Glitch: It’s a Weird Time to Be Named Claude (Bloomberg)
Anthropic's Claude has become one of the most popular AI assistants, and with more than a third of American adults reporting using AI chatbots, the name has slipped its moorings.
Managers now declare in meetings: “We’ll get Claude to do that.” Fighting couples want to know: “OK, but what does Claude say?” For the first time, humans named Claude are hearing their names in contexts that have nothing to do with them.
“I’ve always been the only Claude in the room,” says Claude Lynch, a Ph.D. researcher in transport planning at University College London. Now, “when people in my office mention they used Claude to help them with their projects, I do a double take.”
Many Claudes have never met another person who shares their name. Now they’re adjusting to what it means to share it with something else entirely.
When prompted, Claude the AI is reflective about its name. When told about human Claudes, it’s thoughtful. “You don’t run into many Claudes under 70 in America,” it replies, before offering a comparison: “I imagine it’s a bit like being named Alexa after 2014 — suddenly your name belongs to something else in people’s minds, too.”
Robo Sticks the Landing: Hyundai Robot Performs Handstand, Complex Gymnastics Moves (Bloomberg)
Hyundai’s robotics unit released a video showing its production-ready Atlas humanoid robot performing complex gymnastics, marking a first-of-its-kind live demonstration that could signal the machine is nearing commercialization.
|
