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Ep 733: 7 New AI Features To Save you Time: From Excel to Google Workspace and AI Agents

Adobe’s CEO Steps Down, Meta Delays Its “Avocado” AI Model Until May, NVIDIA and Palantir Expand a $600B AI Partnership, and more.

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March 13, 2026

 

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🎙 Daily Podcast Episode: The biggest AI story this week might not be a model launch — it’s the feature updates inside the tools we already use. Give today’s show a watch/read/listen to find out.

🕵️‍♂️ Fresh Finds: Google Launches AI Tool to Predict Flash Floods, Codex Adds Custom Themes and Task Automation, Alexa+ Gets a “Sassy” Adult Mode, and more. Read on for Fresh Finds.

🗞 Byte Sized Daily AI News: Adobe’s CEO Steps Down, Meta Delays Its “Avocado” AI Model Until May, NVIDIA and Palantir Expand a $500M AI Partnership, and more. Read on for Byte Sized News.

💪 Leverage AI: The real AI edge right now isn’t the next big model — it’s the small feature updates quietly changing how work gets done. Keep reading for that!

↩️ Don’t miss out: Miss our last newsletter? We covered: NVIDIA Invests $26 Billion Into Open AI Models, Microsoft releases Copilot Health, Google adds AI into Google Maps and more. Check it here!

Ep 733: 7 New AI Features To Save you Time: From Excel to Google Workspace and AI Agents


Between the big AI releases and all the AI big tech drama, you probably missed some of the most impactful AI feature updates that will actually move the needle for your company.

From AI inside of spreadsheets to giving autonomous AI agents your work to do while you sleep, here's 7 new AI feature updates you need to know. 👇

Also on the pod today:

• Google Gemini inside Docs/Sheets 🚀 
• Perplexity launches "Personal Computer" 🤖 
• Anthropic Claude adds scheduled tasks ⏰ 

 

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Here’s our favorite AI finds from across the web:

New AI Tool Spotlight – Fowel automatically reviews documentation in every GitHub pull request, catching errors, missing context, and unclear writing before it ships to production. Replyless Auto-sorts emails into smart inboxes, Drafts replies in seconds, and Automates the busywork. doXmind is The editor that thinks with you — not just for you.

AI Predicting Flash Floods — Google just launched Groundsource, an AI tool that predicts urban flash floods using millions of public reports. See how it could change disaster prep in cities.

Codex Updates — Codex just got personal: you can now customize themes and automate recurring tasks. Want to see what else is new?

Alexa+ “Sassy” Adult Mode — Alexa+ just got a "sassy" mode that throws in censored swearing and sarcasm, but only for adults who clear strict security checks.

Claude Interactive Charts — Claude can now whip up custom charts and diagrams right in your chat to help explain things as you go.

Sora Upgrade — OpenAI’s Sora 2 Video API now lets you create custom characters, extend clips, and batch-generate videos. Curious how it changes content creation?

New Facebook Marketplace Features — Meta AI is making Facebook Marketplace faster and smarter. Want to see how it works?

Gemini CLI “Plan Mode” — Google’s Gemini CLI now has a plan mode that keeps your codebase safe by only analyzing and proposing changes before touching anything.

China OpenClaw — China’s gone wild for OpenClaw, the lobster-themed AI assistant. See why it’s outpacing the US and shaking up tech habits.

Research: AI Brand Negativity — Google’s AI shows 44% more negative brand info than ChatGPT. Find out why companies are scrambling to respond.

“Rox” Hits $1.2B Valuation — AI sales startup Rox just hit unicorn status with a $1.2 billion valuation, and big names like Ramp and MongoDB are already on board.

1. Meta Hits Pause on "Avocado" AI Model Launch 🚀

Meta is pushing back the release of its next-generation AI model, "Avocado," to at least May, as its performance hasn't caught up to Google's latest Gemini models, according to the New York Times.

The delay comes amid Meta’s massive spending spree aimed at dominating the AI race and ambitions for "superintelligence." Company insiders say Avocado is still not quite ready for prime time, and Meta is even considering licensing Google’s tech to bridge the gap.

2. Adobe CEO Resigns Amid AI Pressure 😶

Adobe’s CEO is stepping down, making headlines as investor concerns over the company’s AI direction reach a tipping point.

The leadership shakeup comes at a crucial moment for Adobe, with shareholders demanding clearer strategies and faster innovation in the fast-moving AI landscape. This move signals how major tech firms are feeling the heat to adapt amid fierce competition and evolving market expectations.

3. Palantir and NVIDIA Team Up for $600 Billion AI Push 🤑

Palantir and NVIDIA have just announced a partnership targeting the massive $600 billion artificial intelligence market, making waves across the tech world.

The two companies plan to combine their strengths—Palantir’s data analytics and NVIDIA’s advanced hardware—to help industries harness AI at an even greater scale. This alliance signals how heavyweight tech players are rapidly joining forces to capitalize on soaring demand for AI-powered solutions.

4. Peacock Unveils AI Andy Cohen Guide for Bravo Fans 🦚

Peacock is shaking up the streaming game this summer by introducing an AI-powered Andy Cohen avatar to guide users through its new “Your Bravoverse” short-form video feed.

The feed uses AI to curate endless clips from hit Bravo shows based on your preferences, aiming to keep viewers swiping for more. NBCUniversal claims their tech can generate billions of unique feeds tailored to superfans’ guilty pleasures, all while the Cohen avatar dishes out commentary.

5. ByteDance Taps Malaysia for Global AI Powerhouse 📈

In a major move to boost its artificial intelligence capabilities outside China, ByteDance is working with Aolani Cloud to deploy a massive fleet of Nvidia’s latest chips in Malaysia, according to the Wall Street Journal.

This $2.5 billion hardware project could help ByteDance sidestep export controls and meet surging global AI demand, all while giving Nvidia a lucrative new customer. The collaboration highlights how tech giants are navigating geopolitical rules to stay ahead in the AI race.

Your competitors are not gonna beat by just using the next big AI model. You’re gonna be using that, too. 

They’re gonna beat you by quietly rewriting their processes with AI in docs, spreadsheets, and repeatable work while everyone else is still gawking at the headlines. (And yep... that should make some folks a little itchy.)

So how can you keep up? Enter our new Feature Fridays series. 

An easy-to-follow weekly series that recaps the most important AI releases of the week that may have flown under the radar. 

Today’s show (and this new series) is really about workflow advantage. The biggest wins are coming from these low key AI product drops that make teams faster inside the tools they already use.

That’s the FOMO, fam. Not “we missed a cool launch.” More like, “we missed the feature set that will actually change how we work.”

Here’s the 7 new AI features you can’t ignore. 👇

1. Gemini across Google Workspace

Google just deepened Gemini integration across Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive. The big win is that Workspace finally sounds more connected, and less like four separate AI experiments.

The benefit is less context switching and easier access to company knowledge where work already happens. Drive is the sneaky part, because it starts acting more like a usable knowledge layer than a dusty file closet.

If your team lives in Google Workspace, test it on recurring work first. Drafts, spreadsheets, slide creation, and cross-file synthesis are the obvious Monday moves.

2. Perplexity Personal Computer

Perplexity just launched Personal Computer at Ask 2026 dev conference, which is basically its play for persistent, local-plus-cloud agent work. Yep, this feels like a direct shot at the OpenClaw crowd.

The real value is not the Mac mini itself. It’s the idea that agents can keep working with your files, apps, and environment instead of dying when the chat ends.

That matters for multi-step research and orchestration work. Early teams that learn this stuff are gonna have a very unfair-feeling head start.

3. Copilot Cowork

Microsoft introduced Copilot Cowork as part of Wave 3 of Microsoft 365 Copilot. That pushes Copilot closer to doing actual work across meetings, messages, files, and data instead of just sounding helpful in chat.

That is the unlock. Enterprise teams do not need prettier prompts. They need faster paths from messy inputs to finished outputs.

Think decks, reports, summaries, and internal deliverables without the usual tab chaos. That’s where the money is.

4. Agentic capabilities in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Microsoft also used Wave 3 to roll out new agentic experiences in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Small headline. Big operational value.

The benefit is speed inside the app, not outside it. In Excel, that means modeling, formulas, charts, and analysis through natural language. In Word, it means stronger drafts with less back-and-forth.

Most teams do not lack AI access. They lack AI that feels native to the job.

5. ChatGPT for Excel

OpenAI officially launched ChatGPT for Excel and new financial data integrations in March 2026. This is one of the clearest “use it on Monday” releases in the whole episode TBH. 

The value is not just chatting with a spreadsheet. It’s keeping analysis, modeling, and formula work inside Excel instead of bouncing between tools like a sleep-deprived goblin.

If your team lives in spreadsheets, start here. Quiet spreadsheet gains stack up FAST. Also, OpenAI teased that ChatGPT for Google Sheets would be coming soon.

6. Skills in ChatGPT

OpenAI also rolled out Skills beta for ChatGPT Business and Enterprise. That is a sneaky-big move because it attacks one of the most annoying parts of ChatGPT, which is repeating the same instructions forever.

The benefit is standardization. Teams can turn recurring workflows into reusable instructions and stop relying on whoever has the “good prompt” buried in some random doc.

That means more consistency, less prompt chaos, and way less tribal knowledge risk.

7. Claude Code scheduled tasks

Another feature for the OpenClaw crowd? After a lot of interest, Anthropic finally released scheduled tasks for Claude Code.

The real benefit is simple. Claude starts becoming useful while you are away, not just while you are staring at it. Yeah, leave your computer and Claude app open and it’ll legit code and execute tasks while you sleep.

Developers will love that first. But the bigger signal is for everyone else. Repeatable AI work is getting easier to schedule, easier to trust, and a lot harder to ignore.

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