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xAI launches Grok Bot 1.0, AI teammates for Slack, Teams and meetings
Google Labs introduces Tabletop, custom AI tools for group planning
Runway releases Praxis-1, an open-weight model that controls real robots
How to make Claude find the fees hiding in your bank statement
4 new AI tools worth trying today
AI AGENTS
xAI launched Grok Bot 1.0, taking its AI teammates out of beta. A team can share one Bot across Slack and Microsoft Teams and invite it to video calls.
A Team Bot learns how the group works. Owners and managers approve what it remembers, while admins can limit who shares access.
Give a Bot a Google Meet, Zoom, or Microsoft Teams link and it can join, answer questions in the meeting chat, and send a recap. It can also join meetings from your calendar.
Bots can spot unfinished work and offer to take it on. Team Bots are available on Team and Enterprise, while Meetings is also available on Ultra.
Grok Bot 1.0 is a step from personal assistants toward agents that participate in how organizations work. Shared memory can carry decisions across meetings and channels, but it also creates a governance question: who decides what becomes team knowledge, and who can see it? Those controls will matter as much as the quality of the meeting recap.
AI TOOLS
Google introduced Tabletop, a Google Labs experiment that builds custom tools in a shared space for friends, families, and clubs. It’s rolling out through a waitlist for US adults.
Add links, files, and ideas, then ask @tabletop to make an itinerary, dinner poll, expense splitter, or tournament bracket. Groups can also start from a template.
Share an invite link and everyone can use the same space at once, much like a shared Google Doc. Votes, plans, and costs update for the group.
The space can change as plans do. On a road trip, a group could add a wheel of dinner options in a new tab beside its pinned stops.
Tabletop tests a different use for AI-generated software: small tools that a group builds together for a specific job. A club may need a bracket for one weekend, while a family needs an expense tracker for one trip. If those tools are easy to build and revise, some jobs that once needed a dedicated app could move into shared spaces.
AI MODELS
Runway released Praxis-1, a 27-billion-parameter model that applies what it learned from video to controlling robots. The weights and code are available under Apache 2.0, which permits commercial use.
Praxis-1 predicts what the robot will see and how it should move. Each call generates 1.6 seconds of motion in roughly 0.55 to 0.6 seconds on one H100 GPU.
Runway reports 46.2% success on NVIDIA’s RoboLab-120, versus 42.9% for FLUX 3 Action. After fine-tuning on Google’s RT-1, a robot it hadn’t seen in training, Praxis-1 reached 80% on SimplerEnv.
The weights and code for running and fine-tuning the model are on GitHub and Hugging Face, with LeRobot support. The full model fits on one 80 GB GPU, and Runway plans smaller 4-bit versions.
Robot training data is expensive to collect, especially when each new machine needs its own demonstrations. Praxis-1 gives the field an open model for testing how much ordinary video can teach a robot before hardware-specific training begins. The early results make that approach worth studying. The larger test is how reliably it transfers across machines and tasks outside the benchmarks.
HOW TO AI
Give Claude a transaction export, get a shortlist of charges to check or cancel.
Claude can use code to add up fees, spot possible duplicate charges, and show which bills have gone up. All you need is a Claude account and a transaction export, with no bank login in Claude.
Step 1: Export your statements
In your bank’s app or website, look for Statements, Download, or Export. Download six months of transactions as a CSV and do the same for each credit card you want to include. Open each file and remove account numbers, names, and addresses. Keep the column headers and transaction rows.
Step 2: Set up a Money Audit Project
Create a Claude Project called Money Audit. In Set project instructions, add your currency and paydays. Tell Claude to calculate every total with code and treat the latest full month in your files as “this month.”
Ask it to count card purchases as spending and exclude card payments and transfers between your own accounts. That keeps the same spending from showing up twice.
Step 3: Find the leaks
Start a new chat in the Project and attach your CSVs there. Ask for one table of fees, interest, possible duplicates, price increases, and subscriptions. Include the date, amount, and a next step for each item. Ask Claude to total fees, interest, and duplicates separately from recurring bills.
In the six-month demo, fees, interest, and an $86.40 duplicate came to $505.25. Two price increases brought the total to $587.75.
Step 4: Check the numbers
Before calling your bank or canceling a plan, ask Claude to list the date, merchant, and amount behind the figure you’re acting on. Have it check for card payments, transfers, and rows counted twice. In the demo, the totals held, but the review caught a rounded figure. Compare the relevant charges with your bank’s app or the original CSV.
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Google released the Gemini Decisions API in AI Studio. Gemini Decision 1 can score up to 1,000 questions against the same text, image, audio, video, or PDF in one pass, with no charge for output tokens.
Firecrawl added access to more than 3 million indexed research papers through its plugin. Agents can search for recent AI and machine learning papers and retrieve the full text.
OpenAI brought Finances to the ChatGPT desktop app on Mac for US users on Free, Go, Plus, and Pro. Connected accounts can inform spending and investment summaries, and users can build tools around that data.
📝 Granola: Launched Agent Briefs, nightly summaries of your priorities, working relationships, habits, and communication style that Claude and ChatGPT can use as context.
🎬 Motion: Opened early access to its General Video Agent, which plans shots and assembles a cut from a brief. The result stays editable.
🌐 Spacefast: Automattic’s new service publishes sites and apps built with tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Grok Bot, and Cursor, with a database, login, and email included.
📱 Cuttlefish: DigitalOcean’s iPhone app lets users follow Managed Agents sessions and approve or deny individual tool calls from their phone.
THAT’S IT FOR TODAY
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- Dr. Alvaro Cintas
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