One of the many announcements from Google’s I/O 2025 developer conference is Google AI Ultra.  

Google is calling it the future of communication.  And it might be.  We don’t know yet (unless you’re from the future - if so, I have a lot of questions).

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I tried to use ChatGPT to transcribe some audio files and it didn’t work. After doing some research, I found that I can use another OpenAI tool called Whisper but it looks too technical for me. Is there a...

They keep adding features to these AI chatbots.  The latest for Gemini is called scheduled actions.

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Can you help me understand why I would use NotebookLM over something like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini?  I don’t want to make podcasts and I don’t see any other reason to consider it.~ Anonymous

I know, I know, they are not technically called podcasts, but I feel like that’s how everyone knows them.  

If I haven’t mentioned it already, Google is winning the AI race, in my opinion.  And I have mentioned it before, a lot.

What if your calendar wasn’t just where you log appointments, but where your real life takes shape?

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What Google Workspace tools can my team use to manage multiple projects in a remote environment?~ Kara

Let’s start with a blank spreadsheet:

Now let’s say that you want a table full of dummy data, but you don’t want to type everything out. 

Add column headings and make sure that they accurately describe the type of information that you want in the column.

You can use Gemini...