AI at Work edition

AI at Work · 17 Sep 2026

17 Sep 2026 · 15 articles

Snap is launching a new Specs AI tool, and it’s coming to iOS and Mac

Snap is introducing "Specs Intelligence," a new AI assistant that can connect other digital accounts to help you with things like work tasks and keeping track of travel information. It seems similar to AI assistants like Meta's Muse and Gemini's Spark, though Snap is pitching Specs Intelligence as an "anticipatory AI service" that "helps you

Summary published by AI | The Verge · 16 Sep 2026 · Read the original ↗

Anthropic merges Claude Chat, Cowork, and more into a single product

Anthropic is merging Claude Chat and Cowork into a single product. Instead of users picking between interfaces, Claude now decides on its own whether a task needs a quick answer or a bigger workflow. The update also adds Claude Docs and Claude Slides for creating documents and presentations directly in the chat. Pro and Max users get access first.

Summary published by The Decoder · 16 Sep 2026 · Read the original ↗

The top AI text generators in 2026

We're a few years into the latest AI boom, and things have matured a bit. It turns out AI is better at writing code than English, so it's computer engineers and not journalists who've had to radically rethink how they work. Still, AI writing generators are popular, widely available, and worth talking about.  A few things to acknowledge before we get started. AI text generation is more of a…

Summary published by The Zapier Blog · 16 Sep 2026 · Read the original ↗

AI for Societal Impact

Explore this collection to see how experts and local leaders are using AI breakthroughs to ensure everyone can share the opportunity of AI.

Summary published by AI · 15 Sep 2026 · Read the original ↗

Meta’s new One subscriptions put a price on social media and AI

Shortly after launching its new do-everything AI assistant Muse, Meta's launching subscription bundles that pair its standalone app subscriptions with extra AI usage. Some of the new Meta One bundles were in testing earlier this year, but are now available globally starting today, with several tiers for individual users, creators, and businesses. Meta says the

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The 6 best AI writing generators in 2026

Since ChatGPT burst onto the scene a few years back, AI-powered writing tools are everywhere. Microsoft, Google, Apple, and near enough every other tech company have added them to their products, whether it's a document suite, email app, or even just a social messaging app. Most dedicated AI writing apps went from the cutting edge to irrelevant in the space of a year or two and have had to pivot…

Summary published by The Zapier Blog · 15 Sep 2026 · Read the original ↗

The best AI photo editors in 2026

While AI image generators are still attracting most of the headlines, AI photo editors—apps that take your image and use AI to edit or improve it in some way—have been starting to generate some buzz. And really, AI photo editors are the more useful tool. Most of the time, you aren't looking for some wild image of a Canadian man riding a moose through a maple forest in the style of a long-dead…

Summary published by The Zapier Blog · 15 Sep 2026 · Read the original ↗

AI agents for business automation (with 27 AI agent examples)

Long before Zapier hired me to write for them, I was already a power user. I loved tinkering with automations and watching tasks take care of themselves.  But as much as I leaned on those workflows, I always wished they could not only do work for me but also make decisions along the way. For example, what if an automation could tell the difference between an email that needed a reply and one…

Summary published by The Zapier Blog · 14 Sep 2026 · Read the original ↗

The 9 best AI visibility tools in 2026

Your brand's reputation now lives inside a new algorithm: one that's based on AI searches made in tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. One hallucinated fact, one competitor-favoring answer, and the trust, traffic, and sales can vanish overnight. And with ChatGPT usage soaring and Google's AI answers appearing in nearly half of all searches even on a traditional search engine, the risk (and…

Summary published by The Zapier Blog · 14 Sep 2026 · Read the original ↗