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Google Translate Adds iPhone Earpiece Audio and Android Background Sessions

The mobile update makes Live Translate easier to use during long conversations and without an accessory, but its two headline conveniences are still divided between iOS and Android.

Yesterday

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Google Launches Voice AI in Gmail, Docs and Keep, With Business Access Still Ahead

The release moves Google’s I/O preview into consumer products, but access is split by subscription tier and Workspace business customers remain on a later timetable.

Earlier this week

3 stories

Sep 2, 2026Products

Google Adds Gemini Book Insights to iOS and Expands It Past 1 Million Ebooks

The September expansion broadens in-reader help across Google Play Books, while a separate Gemini Notebook feature turns eligible purchased titles into cited AI source material with stricter ownership rules.

Sep 1, 2026Products

Altruist Puts Six-Part Financial Planning in Hazel, With Separate Math Programs

The new agent gives advisors a way to build and adjust comprehensive plans during client meetings. Altruist’s key design claim is that AI handles client context while separate software produces the financial figures.

Sep 1, 2026Products

Amazon Quick Pitches Connected Workflows as Vertiv Plans 25% User Growth in 2026

AWS is framing Quick as a conversational layer across business systems, but its customer examples describe deployments and intended uses rather than comparable measures of productivity or return.

Last week

5 stories

Aug 29, 2026Products

Apple’s iOS 27 Nears September Release With Siri AI, but EU Access Is Limited

The coming update would move Apple’s AI from isolated features into search, automation and editing workflows—while a regulatory dispute leaves some of its headline tools unavailable in the European Union.

Aug 27, 2026Products

Relay Puts Gemini Voice Dictation in Any Mac Text Field, With Hardware Due in 2027

Relay’s immediate product is software, but its app-action layer asks users to weigh hands-free automation against microphone and screen-snapshot permissions.

Aug 26, 2026Products

Ask Rentana Opens Portfolio Analysis to More Staff at No Extra Cost, but Outcomes Remain Unproven

Rentana is betting that a plain-language route into portfolio data will broaden use of its revenue tools. Its early usage figures show engagement beyond specialists, not a demonstrated lift in operating performance.

Aug 25, 2026Products

Claude Connects Chat Memory to Cowork, While Keeping Sensitive Memory Opt-In

Claude’s new handoff promises less repeated context-setting across its products. The trade-off is a more active memory layer that users may need to inspect, edit, pause, or clear as projects change.

Aug 25, 2026Products

Apple Refreshes Mac mini and Mac Studio for Linked Local AI, From $899

The specification refresh formalizes a workflow of linking Macs for larger local models, but performance evidence has yet to arrive and the top chip’s name is inconsistent.

August 2026

2 stories

Aug 22, 2026Products

Grok Bot Gives Each Team Member a Persistent AI Workspace

The product gives each worker a shared cloud computer for multiple long-lived Bots, extending AI work into browsing, tools and local-machine actions while leaving several enterprise controls unfinished.

Aug 20, 2026Products

Anthropic Opens Claude Academy as Free Training for Its AI Products

The free catalog teaches task selection and human review alongside Claude workflows. Whether those lessons improve real deployments remains unmeasured.