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Productivity News 18 June 2025 - 29 July 2025

I Replaced Google Search with AI for a Week — Here’s What Really Happened

I Replaced Google Search with AI for a Week — Here’s What Really Happened

Over seven days, the author replaced Google with AI as the sole search tool, using ChatGPT with built-in web search, plus Bing Chat and Perplexity, and banned Google queries. AI search delivers a single conversational answer with citations and no ads, instead of Google’s cluttered list of blue links. The AI maintained conversation context, enabling multi-step tasks like planning a dinner date by combining restaurant suggestions and showtimes in one thread. In terms of speed, AI often saved time on straightforward queries—for example, a 45-pound child’s car seat weight was answered in about 15 seconds. For real-time updates, AI lagged
29 July 2025
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OpenAI Unleashes ChatGPT Agent – The AI Assistant That Can Plan, Shop and Make PowerPoints For You

OpenAI Unleashes ChatGPT Agent – The AI Assistant That Can Plan, Shop and Make PowerPoints For You

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Agent on July 17, 2025, turning ChatGPT into a personal AI assistant capable of autonomously handling multi-step tasks. The agent uses a built-in “virtual computer” to browse the web, fill forms, run code, and produce Excel spreadsheets or PowerPoint presentations on the user’s behalf. It can manage schedules and plans by checking your calendar and finding free times to reserve tables via OpenTable. It can perform online research and compile concise reports or analyses, including trend summaries. It can shop online, compare options with criteria you specify, and place orders with your permission. It can generate editable
17 July 2025
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AI Tool Bonanza: 7 New AI Releases & Updates on July 14, 2025 You Need to Know

AI Tool Bonanza: 7 New AI Releases & Updates on July 14, 2025 You Need to Know

Perplexity’s Comet is a Chromium-based AI browser available today to Perplexity Max subscribers and waitlisted users, with Windows and macOS support and mobile versions in development. Comet’s AI automation sidebar can automatically compare shipping options across online stores to find the fastest shipping or best return policies. xAI’s Grok 4 is now accessible to individual SuperGrok and Premium+ subscribers and via the xAI API, with live web search and the ability to run code. Grok 4 features advanced multi-modal understanding and a powerful reinforcement-learning backbone on a 200,000-GPU supercomputer, plus a new “Grok 4 Heavy” top-tier setting. Hugging Face’s SmolLM3
15 July 2025
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Tech Today: July 9, 2025 – Samsung Unpacked, Apple Leadership, AI Talent Wars, Gmail’s Inbox Revolution, and More / Updated: 2025, July 9th, 12:00 CET

Tech Today: July 9, 2025 – Samsung Unpacked, Apple Leadership, AI Talent Wars, Gmail’s Inbox Revolution, and More / Updated: 2025, July 9th, 12:00 CET

Samsung announced Galaxy Unpacked 2025 on July 9, 2025, unveiling the Galaxy Z Fold 7, Z Flip 7, and Galaxy Watch 8 with deeper Google Gemini AI integration. Apple disclosed COO Jeff Williams’s retirement after 27 years, appointing Sabih Khan as the new COO and moving the design group to report directly to Tim Cook. Gmail rolled out the Manage Subscriptions feature on the web, with Android support arriving on July 14 and iOS on July 21. OpenAI hired four top engineers from Tesla, xAI, and Meta to bolster its Stargate AI infrastructure. NVIDIA unveiled the DGX Spark mini supercomputer
9 July 2025
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June–July 2025 Update: Workflow Automation & RPA Industry Report

June–July 2025 Update: Workflow Automation & RPA Industry Report

Gartner’s 2025 Magic Quadrant for RPA, released in late June 2025, again names Automation Anywhere, Microsoft, SS&C Blue Prism, and UiPath as Leaders for the seventh consecutive year. Gartner warned about ‘agent washing’ and projected that by 2027 more than 40% of agentic AI projects could be canceled due to unclear ROI. UiPath announced a mid-June 2025 launch of a next-generation Agentic Automation Platform in Australia, unifying AI agents, RPA bots, and human workflows and introducing UiPath Maestro as the orchestration layer with a Google Cloud Agent-to-Agent protocol for secure AI-agent communication. UiPath reported thousands of AI agents created and
8 July 2025
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AI Revolution: 21 Game-Changing Tools Transforming Small Businesses in 2025

AI Revolution: 21 Game-Changing Tools Transforming Small Businesses in 2025

In 2025, AI tools are transforming small businesses across marketing, customer service, operations, analytics, finance, HR, and productivity, with 93% of small business owners saying AI saves money and boosts profitability. Jasper (jasper.ai) is an AI copywriter for content marketing that offers 50+ templates, lets you set a brand voice, and has plans starting around $49 per month (Boss Mode). Canva’s Magic Studio adds AI-powered design suggestions and image generation, including Magic Resize, with Canva’s basic plan free and advanced features available via a Pro plan around $12 per month. HubSpot CRM & Marketing Hub provides an AI-enabled all-in-one platform
5 July 2025
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Revolutionize Your Writing in 2025: Top 10 AI Tools You Can’t Afford to Ignore

Revolutionize Your Writing in 2025: Top 10 AI Tools You Can’t Afford to Ignore

OpenAI ChatGPT, built on GPT-4 and now multimodal with text, image, and voice inputs, reached over 100 million weekly users by 2024 and offers a free tier plus the $20/month ChatGPT Plus plan with plugins and web browsing. Google Gemini (formerly Bard) integrates with Google Workspace, offers Gemini Advanced in Google One AI Premium at $19.99/month with 2 TB Google Drive storage, supports multimodal inputs, and delivers 90%+ accuracy across 57 subjects. Microsoft Bing Chat, powered by GPT-4 and branded as Copilot, provides real-time web-linked answers with source citations and is free to consumers, with Bing Chat Enterprise available for
19 June 2025
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13 AI Tools Revolutionizing Personal Life and Professional Productivity (2024–2025)

Top 100 Hottest AI Tools Revolutionizing Life and Work in 2025

Midjourney (on Discord) uses the V6 model and offers plans starting around $10/month for Basic, $30/month for Standard, and $60/month for Pro. DALL-E 3 (OpenAI) is integrated with ChatGPT in ChatGPT Plus, which costs $20/month, with image-generation credits priced around $0.02–$0.03 per image. Synthesia offers AI avatars (100+ options) and 120+ languages, with a Personal plan at $30/month including 10 video credits (about 10 minutes). Descript provides text-based video and audio editing with Overdub, a Free plan, Creator plan at $12/month for 10 hours transcription, and Pro at $24/month for 30 hours. Pictory converts long-form text into videos, offering Standard
18 June 2025
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13 AI Tools Revolutionizing Personal Life and Professional Productivity (2024–2025)

13 AI Tools Revolutionizing Personal Life and Professional Productivity (2024–2025)

ChatGPT (OpenAI) uses GPT-4 and Gemini models and reached about 200 million users by late 2024. Claude (Anthropic) offers a context window up to 100,000 tokens in Claude 2 to analyze long texts and source code. Google Bard (Gemini) and Duet AI bring Gemini-powered productivity to Google Workspace, with Bard free for general users and Duet AI priced from $30 per user/month. Microsoft 365 Copilot is embedded across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams, uses GPT-4, and enterprise pricing starts around $30 per user/month. Notion AI launched in 2023 and Notion reached over 20 million users by early 2024. GrammarlyGO
18 June 2025
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