Gemini on Android gets major workflow upgrades and new hardware, Claude expands legal tools, and OpenAI Codex shares finance use cases.
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GeminiGemini on Android gets smarter with cross-app tasks and new Googlebooks are coming.
Gemini
You can now use Gemini on Android to complete tasks across different apps, like copying a grocery list from your notes and adding items to a shopping cart.
The app now lets you browse the web, fill out forms, and dictate speech to help you get things done.
Google also announced new laptops called Googlebooks, built with Gemini at their core, which will launch this fall.
Claude
Claude now offers new chatbot features to help law firms with tasks like searching documents and preparing for depositions.
These new tools expand the existing 'Claude for Legal' plug-in to automate more clerical work.
You can use it for things like reviewing case law and drafting legal documents.
OpenAI Codex
Finance teams can now use Codex to create monthly business reports, financial reporting packs, and planning scenarios.
It helps with tasks like building variance bridges and checking financial models.
See how finance teams can use Codex to build MBRs, reporting packs, variance bridges, model checks, and planning scenarios from real work inputs.
ChatGPT
Later, Molo was able to get clearer answers out of Altman regarding his investments in companies that have struck deals with OpenAI.
Molo also questioned whether OpenAI’s nonprofit board truly has the ability to appoint and fire executives at the company—which OpenAI has argued it does.
Altman responded by saying he needed these reassurances in order to come back to run OpenAI, and that it was ultimately the board that fired him who appointed new members and rehi.
Grok
Burning natural gas can release planet-warming emissions and worsen air quality. Officials at the MDEQ and xAI did not respond to WIRED’s request for comment.
In April, the NAACP, along with the SELC and Earthjustice, filed a lawsuit against xAI, alleging that the company had been operating a “personal power plant” in Southaven by runni.
The same day that the NAACP asked for its injunction, Anthropic announced that it had signed an agreement with xAI to use all the computing resources at Colossus 1.