AI Productivity
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xAI ships Grok Connectors with 8 integrations and BYO MCP support
xAI flipped the switch on Grok Connectors today (May 11, 2026), turning Grok from a chatbot into something that actually touches your work tools. Web, iOS, and Android — all live on day one. What it does This is Grok-as-agent. One-click hookup to Gmail, Google Workspace, SharePoint, Outlook, OneDrive, Notion, GitHub, and Linear. Grok can… Continue reading
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Google Remy: Gemini’s 24/7 background agent surfaces 8 days before I/O
Google’s been building this in the shadows. A staff-only build of the Gemini app leaked this week with an internal agent codenamed Remy — and unlike every “AI assistant” Google has shipped, this one isn’t here to chat. It’s here to do your job while you sleep. What Remy actually is It’s an agent layer… Continue reading
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Microsoft shipped Agent 365 GA on May 1. Standalone is $15/user/month, or you bundle it into the new Microsoft 365 E7 tier at $99/user/month. E7 is Microsoft’s first net-new enterprise license tier since E5 in 2015 — that alone signals how seriously they’re treating agent sprawl.
What Agent 365 actually is A control plane for enterprise AI agents, not an agent itself. IT admins get a console showing every agent in the org — who built it, what it can touch, whether anyone still owns it. The platform flags risky or orphaned agents, enforces lifecycle policies, and pipes audit logs into… Continue reading
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Beauty Diagram fixes the ugliest part of Mermaid: how it actually renders
Mermaid and PlantUML are everywhere now — Cursor pastes them, Notion renders them, every engineer’s README has at least one. The problem: defaults look like a 2008 Visio export, and dropping that into a board deck makes the whole doc feel cheap. Beauty Diagram is the polish layer engineers and PMs kept hoping someone would… Continue reading
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Ara turns a single SMS into a live website in 30 seconds
Text Ara a sentence about your business, get back a live site with payments and analytics 30 seconds later. No editor, no signup flow, no Figma. Just SMS. What Ara actually does You text the idea, the vibe, what people should do. Ara writes the copy, picks the layout, generates images, ships a working URL… Continue reading
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nudge wants to be Motion at a fraction of the price — built solo by a Tokyo student
Drop a list of tasks into nudge and your whole week shows up on the calendar in about 10 seconds. No templates, no setup wizard. Just a Markdown TODO in, calendar out. The AI agent reads your tasks, respects your sleep, meals, gym, and deep-work hours, and slots everything around real life. Calendar, list, and… Continue reading
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SuperMind ships 13 AI agents to run your company end-to-end
Co-founder Aryan Bains says he built SuperMind because he was sick of being the last approval in every chain at his own startup. So he built a system that handles the chains for him — and pings him only when something actually needs a tap. Not a chatbot, an operating system SuperMind drops 13 specialist… Continue reading
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Google rolls out File Generation in Gemini, chasing ChatGPT Canvas and Claude Artifacts
Google shipped File Generation in Gemini on April 29. Tell the chatbox “turn this into a PDF” or “export to Excel,” and you get a real downloadable file. No copy-paste, no manual formatting, no opening another app. What it generates Workspace files (Docs, Sheets, Slides) plus PDF, DOCX, XLSX, CSV, LaTeX, TXT, RTF, and Markdown.… Continue reading
